Centric’s Talent Acquisition Manager discusses the relationship between content marketing and recruiting in this blog series.
Once upon a time, the good people at CareerArc handed National Marketing Lead Misty Walsh and me the reigns to an episode in their popular recruiting webinar series. Their only requests were that we chat about content marketing and our unique relationship.
Content marketing was easy. Misty and I were both big fans, leveraging it for business development and recruiting respectively.
And so was chatting about our unique relationship. In a world where recruiting and marketing were often at odds, we were actually bona fide friends.
So we gave them that. But because we are both suckers for a good theme, we also gave them a bunch of obnoxious bird puns. (The CareerArc people did not ask for that, and probably have since written a “no birds” clause into their speaker contracts.)
Because the world needs more good content marketing, good friendships, and good bird themes, this is the first in a series on those topics. For even more goodness, I also encourage you to check out the webinar recording.
With that, let’s “take flight”….
Creating Content Marketing for Recruiting
Candidates are not really that much different than your customers. They have a lot of options and are becoming savvier by the day. They will do exhaustive research and scrutinize every aspect of your company. All with the goal of finding the ideal career opportunity.
And just like the consumer space, content marketing can be highly influential. Candidates want to read, see and experience what your company has to offer.
So how do you create a candidate-focused content marketing campaign?
- Vulnerability: “Be a sitting duck” Start with building a relationship between your talent acquisition and marketing teams.
- Vision: “Get a bird’s eye view of what is important” What is your company’s story? What are you trying to convey?
- Transparency: “Open your nest up” The biggest breakthroughs happen when you share strategy and data between teams.
- Integration: “Get your ducks in a row” Learn from each other and then align talents and goals.
- Re-purposing: “A bird in hand…” Content marketing for recruiting and sales tools and efforts, can, and should, be intertwined.
Read the Series
- Part 2: Birds of a Feather: Vulnerability in Recruitment Content Marketing
- Part 3: Birds of a Feather: Vision in Content Marketing for Recruiting
- Part 4: Birds of a Feather: Transparency in Content Marketing for Recruiting
- Part 5: Birds of a Feather: Integration in Recruitment Content Marketing
- Part 6: Birds of a Feather: Repurposing Content Marketing for Talent Acquisition
- Part 7: Birds of a Feather: Resources for Recruitment Content Marketing Efforts
