Explore how our talent acquisition and marketing teams work hand-in-hand to repurpose work.

Part six of a series. 

Some lucky duck marketing and talent acquisition teams have big budgets allowing them to deploy comprehensive recruiting content marketing campaigns using cutting edge technologies. And then there’s the rest of us, with not much of a nest egg to fall back on.

So what do you do? For us, it means we are continuously looking for ways to streamline and share resources between Centric’s marketing and recruiting teams. We prefer making the best use of the “birds we have in hand” versus stretching our already thin budget on the latest and greatest.

As they say, sharing is caring! We make a point to strategize how the work of each team can be repurposed. And since we are working off a common vision, and are integrated and transparent, our work products often align nicely.

Repurposing Work: An Example

True story…

Misty and the marketing team were building a Contact Management System to help organize and target our company’s business development relationships, which had been a constant struggle for them.

Concurrently, our talent acquisition team had been grappling with how to maintain relationships with candidates.

Misty and I shared these challenges as part of our regular checkpoints and quickly realized that we could combine resources to meet our individual team’s goals.

Thus, our recruiting content marketing team will piggyback off Marketing’s Contact Management System. Also, we will be able to utilize their Marketing Automation software to build targeting recruiting campaigns.

Thanks to these new tools at our disposal, we will be able to track candidates, and pro-actively provide them targeted content based on their interests. This will elevate our content marketing campaign to a level of sophistication beyond our current social media blasts.

Right now, our recruiting contact list is much larger than our sales list. Thus, by sharing their tools, the marketing team’s branding efforts will reach an even wider audience than they could do on their own.

Marketing wins! Recruiting wins! And our company wins too! This effort will streamline our software purchases, reducing IT support and saving licensing fees.

Marketing and Talent Acquisition likely each have a nest full of strategies and tools. Share them with each other – the bird you already have in hand is often just what you need.