Today I had an opportunity to attend webinar on Employer Branding during HR Conclave 2014 organized by ET .
Special Address 5: Leveraging Employer branding to be
an Employer of Choice and attract passive candidates
Naveen Narayanan, Global Head-Talent Acquisition, HCL Technologies made very interesting and relevant points wrt Employer Branding and how to leverage Social Media for Recruitment.
Naveen Narayanan, Global Head-Talent Acquisition, HCL Technologies made very interesting and relevant points wrt Employer Branding and how to leverage Social Media for Recruitment.
I immediately followed him on twitter after listening to his talk .
Key points and insights captured
People use Social as Job boards
Social is a way to engage with Passive candidates
Employer branding influences passive candidates
Branding internally as important and branding externally
Branding to internal employees so that they talk to their
external networks eg through Linkedin
Is your Recruiting
information accessible on mobile ?
Let employees influence passive candidates through employer
branding
You are curator of information today
People are talking amongst each other
You can only watch that space and curate that space
Campaign on Twitter – activity for 3 -4 weeks
5 jobs, mentoring also done on twitter to engage passive candidate
Passive candidates suddenly becomes active when approached
through social media, non conventional means eg twitter
Interacting directly with global candidates , trending on
twitter , 25k followers, 25 publications wrote about the campaign and event
which otherwise would have costed many more dollars , now that much publicity
through social media campaign
Brings it to life how passive candidates can be engaged,
Less than 5000 K dollars were spent on campaign
Sodxeho uses pinterest
TechGig – holy grail for developers
Do u know hangouts ,
watering holes where people are there
Are you hanging out there ?
B-Schools, how do you engage with students
In colleges, try and find people who have live business idea
Disruptive practices – supporting startup ideas in colleges
Why doesn’t recruiting team has hunters and farmers ?
Employees want to know other than role, job, money
How can I contribute in social arena
Employees want to make very active role
Measurements?
