The employer brand podcast dedicated to making you smarter about recruiting and hiring
Its time to re-invent employer branding, recruiting and hiring from the ground up!
If you’re ready to throw off the shackles of conventional recruiting and employer brand thinking, this is the podcast for you. Nothing idea is safe. No best practice is sacred. Here, get serious about what works, so that you can punch above your weight in the war for talent.
EP 094 – Let’s Get Emotional About Your Employer Brand
If Maya Angelou was right, and people don't remember what you say as much as how you made them feel, why aren't we striving to make truly emotional employer brand messages? Why aren't we trying to make candidates feel something? Show notes: Read the Employer Brand...
EP 093 – The Employer Brand Manifesto
Why an employer brand manifesto? There's a reason employer brand people feel like a person without a country, not quite fitting into recruiting or marketing, but needing to influence both. In this episode, I try to plant a flag, defining the EB pro's value (to...
EP 092 – Plumbers and Architects
Managing an employer brand usually makes you feel more like a plumber than an architect. Spoiler: the plumber has more impact on the shape of things than the architect. Show notes: Proactive Talent Book me for speaking engagements on employer brand and recruitment...
EP 091 – Employer Brand for Employees
99% of all employer brand conversations are about recruiters, candidates and hiring managers. Um... how did we forget employees!? Not only are they the backbone and living embodiment of the brand, they are directly impacted by it. Show notes: I can help you solve your...
EP 090 – Cast Offs
Every day, you are collecting resumes from hundreds or thousands of people thinking this is their dream job, even though most won't get so much as a phone call. If I ran a business where I annoyed and disappointed so many potential customers, I'd find that concerning....
EP 089 – When It’s Worth Sharing
How often should you email or reach out to your talent pool? I don't know, how often do you call your best friend? Its such a crazy question, but we hear it more and more. In this episode, I try and flip over the apple-cart of content cadences and communication...
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James Ellis, Employer Brand Nerd
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EP 094 – Let’s Get Emotional About Your Employer Brand
If Maya Angelou was right, and people don't remember what you say as much as how you made them feel, why aren't we striving to make truly emotional employer brand messages? Why aren't we trying to make candidates feel something? Show notes: Read the Employer Brand...
EP 093 – The Employer Brand Manifesto
Why an employer brand manifesto? There's a reason employer brand people feel like a person without a country, not quite fitting into recruiting or marketing, but needing to influence both. In this episode, I try to plant a flag, defining the EB pro's value (to...
EP 092 – Plumbers and Architects
Managing an employer brand usually makes you feel more like a plumber than an architect. Spoiler: the plumber has more impact on the shape of things than the architect. Show notes: Proactive Talent Book me for speaking engagements on employer brand and recruitment...
EP 085 – And The Kitchen Sink
Before we head off to summer break to recharge the podcast's batteries, here are all my notes and ideas that didn't quite make it as full episodes. This episode is chock full of concepts and perspectives, clearing the way for a whole new set of episodes in September....
EP 084 – Being Different Is Entirely The Point
Everything about our industry is geared towards the middle: don't do anything too different or clever with your job descriptions because you'll alienate someone, maximize audience and reach (even if you'll never hire that person), focus on the widest possible net,...
EP 083 – Closing Candidates with Employer Brand
Your employer brand isn't just about attracting people at the top of the funnel, or getting them to accept your InMail request. It permeates every level of the talent funnel. So if you don't know how to engage with your employer brand properly, it doesn't matter how...
EP 082 – The Only Recruiting Metric That Matters
We are awash in recruiting metrics being spewed out from out ATS, our media tools, our social tools, our magic metrics tools, etc. But that are almost all worthless. There is only one single metric that you need to care about because its the only metric the business...
EP 081 – The End of Applications
Everything in your recruiting ecosystem (tech stack, processes, people... EVERYTHING) is predicated on getting the application: the thing EVERY CANDIDATE HATES. Sorry... I got wound up. Anyway, its time to kill the very idea of the application since you don't really...
EP 080 – Better Job Postings
Just because everyone knows job posts suck doesn't mean you have the excuse to suck. In fact, the company that writes better job posts can increase the quality and quantity of applicants, change the diversity of applicants, and facilitate far better interviews. No,...