Do the careers and culture at your company inspire passion in candidates and employees?
On the Insights team at LinkedIn we have the incredible opportunity to work with a rich set of professional data shared by our 200 million+ members. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I used my data wrangling skills to find out just where professionals who love their work live.
We’ve already established the reasons why it pays to engage employee connections and company followers on LinkedIn. You can do some of that yourself, but in reality you’ll get from 0 to 60 much faster if you partner with your employees. Your brand, whether corporate or employer, is no longer about the message you control, but rather the authentic experience you deliver.
A recent analysis by TNS offers the top drivers of employer brand ambassadors to deliver the brand promise, or what people expect from every interaction with your company:
Want to drive a compelling talent brand? Start close to home with your connections, your employees’ connections, and your company followers on LinkedIn.
As discussed recently on the LinkedIn Talent blog, talent brand is no longer about the message you control. The online social world has seized brand from the hands of you, the employer, and placed it in the hands of your talent, both current and potential. You can certainly influence, but you don’t call all the shots.
We may already be in week two of 2013, but it’s never too late to commit to important resolutions. And I have a whopper for talent acquisition professionals everywhere: make 2013 the year you truly embrace data-driven recruiting.
There was plenty of buzz about the rise of analytics in the HR and recruiting industry last year. The Wall Street Journal did a feature on MoneyBall and the HR Department, for instance; Glen Cathey’s been on the case for a while; and last month Nathan Parcells argued why your next HR hire should be a data scientist. But don’t let the coverage fool you. Most people simply aren’t there.
In Australia, as elsewhere, talent acquisition has never been more important. Challenges resulting from labor supply in a highly competitive market, skill shortages, technological change and an aging population are creating a sharp focus on talent acquisition and retention.
New research published by LinkedIn Talent Solutions highlights six top trends that you need to keep in mind when recruiting in Australia. We include three here; view our Slideshare presentation below to get the rest.