April, 2014
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Ajax gets employees and employers working together on social media to tell a consistent company story.
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This makes processes impacted by employee conversations—like talent acquisition, talent retention, and even sales— more efficient.
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What differentiates Workforce Marketing from social media campaigns is a focus on resonance.
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Impact=
Resonance x Reach Cost x Effort
Making the brand meaningful to employees makes it easier for them to share the brand with their networks.
Because employees are up to 6x more trusted than company spokespeople (2013 Edelman Trust Barometer), getting heard becomes easier.
Reach without resonance? That’s spam.
Resonance gets employees to self-identify with the message, making branding programs more sustainable and driving down overall costs.
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Case study: Oil & Gas
Why it works:
Our opt-in approach modeled exactly how to use LinkedIn to solve a specific, important challenge for employees, with no distractions.
Ajax was approached by a major oil and gas company to help it use LinkedIn to recruit more efficiently. Ajax assessed employee brand ambassadorship, across both recruiters and non-recruiters, and then implemented a 3-step program to engage employees. We achieved the following:
• Voluntary use of brand messaging up 907%
• Voluntary use of LinkedIn summaries/current job descriptions up 268%
• Voluntary use of keywords up 85%
• Voluntary use of résumé jargon down 224%
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Case study: eCommerce
Our data showed employees why brand advocacy is important, and how it could help them day-to-day. Getting buy-in on suggestions on how to use and optimize their LinkedIn profiles—such as writing a client-focused summary—flowed naturally from the findings.
Ajax worked with a major retailer to help it recruit technical talent in the Bay Area more effectively. Working with business leaders and technical staff across departments, Ajax:
• Increased overall brand advocacy 67%, from 39% to 65%.
• Increased voluntary use of company messaging nearly 300%, from 15% to 59%.
Before & After
Before & After
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Case Study: The Expert’s ExpertsWe have repeatedly demonstrated an ability to drive behavioral change across all levels of employees and across all levels of social media savvy, from “newbies” to “gurus.”
The following feedback is from a Fall 2013 program with certified LinkedIn Recruiter users and other social-savvy recruiters:
• 97% of participants reported learning something actionable from Ajax’s brand advocacy assessment.
• 94% of participants reported better understanding how to use LinkedIn and social media as a business tool.
• 94% of participants reported having taken action or having a strong intent to act on what they learned.
Our methodologies are rooted in decades of organizational science. We have been refining them for social business since 2010.
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Simplified Offerings!
The Brand AmplifierMeasuring Employee Brand Advocacy !What we do: • Assess brand advocacy across 200
employees. • Deliver concrete, actionable steps for
amplifying the employer brand. !
What the client gets: • Quantified report on employee brand
ambassadorship, with an analysis of results. • Individualized feedback for employees. • A 90 minute executive briefing with Ajax.!
How the client benefits: • Insights pinpoint opportunities in an
actionable, scalable way. • Insights connect the dots between
individual and organizational results. • Subscription opportunities allow the client
to track improvement over time. !
!Employer Brand On-boarding
Optimizing Employee Advocacy !What we do: • Assess employee brand advocacy, plus • Support internal and agency resources to
get employees engaged with the brand !
What the client gets: • All output from the assessment. • A proven, 6-week program to increase
employee brand advocacy. • All output and communications generated
during the program. • Follow-up assessment to measure impact.!
How the client benefits: • All benefits from the assessment. • A turn key, proven model for driving
change that can be used in the future. !!
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Actionable InsightsLinkedIn Profile Notes by Ajax Workforce Marketing February 7, 2014
About you: Your professional credibility The checklist below will help you project a professional image.
If you don’t want your network to know you are updating your profile, be sure to “Turn off activity broadcasts” in your settings before making changes.
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Brand Advocacy Elements My peers Me
Comfortable
Do you have a photo?
Ready
Do you have a custom, “vanity” URL?
Connected
Do you have 500+ connections?
Descriptive
Do you have a summary + current job description?
Present
Do you avoid résumé jargon?
Natural
Is your profile written in the first person?
Strategic
Do you use multimedia to enhance your message?
To-the-point
Is your summary < 200 words?
Community minded
Have you activated the Volunteer & Civic Causes section?
Skilled
Do you list 7 or more job-related skills?
Dedicated
Is company messaging present on your profile?
Thoughtful
Have you gone beyond copying/pasting company messaging?
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LinkedIn Profile Notes by Ajax Workforce Marketing February 7, 2014
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About You: Optimization through advocacy How well does your LinkedIn profile align with your messages and goals?
!!Photo
Tactical tip
You want your photo to be polished and approachable. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a “professional” headshot, but it should reinforce the brand you’re trying to portray to your audience.
!Headline
Tactical tip
Make it clear, informative, and compelling. People should know from a glance what you do, and subsequently, want to keep reading your profile. Think of a newspaper headline: when you read one it tells you what the article is going to be about, and from it you decide if you’re going to read the article or not!
If you want to get more specific than just your job title (or if your title doesn’t do a good job explaining what you really do), try thinking about things like geography, your target demographic, or specific industries. One format we recommend is:
Helping_____with_________
“Helping online customers with checkout experiences, Engineer at COMPANY”
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“How do I look?!”
Do you have a great profile photo? A bad one?
Don’t worry, we won’t judge!
What we want to know is, will your photo help you attract the right people? Will it get you closer to your goals?
These are different criteria than most people use to assess a profile. And the results may surprise you…
Our simple assessment tool makes it easy to take meaningful action, track progress, and measure impact.
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Thank youJason Seiden
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When people communicate well, amazing things happen. We work with clients to help them unleash the persuasive potential of all their professional employees.
We identify the essence of what an enterprise stands for, work to make everyone in the company feel ownership of it, show employees how advocacy benefits them as individuals, and create a path for their aggregated efforts to benefit the organization upon whose profits they depend.
In the end, employees are empowered to do more amazing things, and their efforts become the foundation for a more sustainable, effective, and strategic employer brand.
Payroll is an investment you’ve already made. Be sure the return is all it can be.
- Jason Seiden CEO, Ajax Workforce Marketing
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