Focusing on the traditional recruitment funnel will allow you to optimize a sinking ship. The way you make a real impact on speed of hire, quality of hire, and really your entire talent strategy is to look above and below the funnel. This season to The Talent Cast is sponsored by RecruitmentMarketing.com. To read the open source text of Talent Chooses You, go to employerbrandbook.com

We've spent the last 10 years embedding the "recruitment funnel" into how we see all our recruiting challenges, and it's time to admit that it is holding us back. This season of The Talent Cast is sponsored by RecruitmentMarketing.com. The open source text of Talent Chooses you can be found at employerbrandbook.com.

“Why” is the question of our age. It determines how we see ourselves, what we do and how we do it. We live in a world with abundant resources, choices, and options, a world filled with technology that your parents all but think is magic, and any fact, song, show or movie, article, book or idea at our beck and call within seconds. If you can do anything, what you choose to do isn’t based on basic constraints, but on why you want to do something. 

In this episode, we breakdown one of. the most important and least-discussed elements of employer branding and how it differs from every other kind of marketing: the focus on better, not more.

Welcome to Season Two of The Talent Cast! The big news is that this season, I'm turning Talent Chooses You into an audiobook, revising and annotating from the text originally written three years ago. The entire project is brought to you by RecruitmentMarketing.com, and will take 6 months to complete. In the first episode, we intro the book the jump into talking about how your people aren't employees you can boss around anymore. They are a lot more like paid volunteers.

Surprise episode! The Talent Cast is about to launch Season Two as the audiobook for Talent Chooses You. As an hors d'oeuvre (or maybe an aperitif?) for subscribers who have been waiting more than a year for new episodes, here is a "big idea" for you consider. The audiobook, sponsored by RecruitmentMarketing.com, will start airing January 19th, 2022. As always, you can subscribe to the world's largest employer brand newsletter by going to employerbrand.news and subscribing for free!

There's analytics. There's metrics. And then there's the magic and insight than Andrew creates every day. Prepare to have your mind blown (in a good way). You can connect with Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgadomski/ Show Notes! Employer Brand Headlines is the #1 employer brand newsletter. It's free. Go sign up: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/employerbrandnews Talent Chooses You and The Employer Brand Handbook Vol 1 are now free and open source!...

I love talking about employer branding with people who aren't IN employer brand exclusively. That's why chatting with Jill was such a hoot. She has perspective and experience to burn, and it shows in this amazing chat. You can connect with Jill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilldudones/ Show Notes! Employer Brand Headlines is the #1 employer brand newsletter. It's free. Go sign up: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/employerbrandnews Talent Chooses You and The Employer Brand...

Fun fact: We recorded the first version of this interview more than a year ago, but it didn't record properly (there were tears). So Lindsay, being magnanimous and generous as always, let me take a second shot at it. Which is great, because she's seen some stuff and always brings such a great perspective to branding and recruitment marketing. You can find Lindsay on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-parks/ Show Notes! Employer Brand Headlines is the #1 employer brand...

Katrina Kibben is the reigning champion of all things job postings. There's no need to call a vote. There will be no recount. If you had any doubt, you have only to listen to this interview where they pinpoint any number of instances of "recruiting insanity" that most of us take as gospel. Katrina can be found on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinakibben/, or through their company Three Ears Media https://www.threeearsmedia.com/. Show notes! Employer Brand Headlines is the #1...

Looking for a job? Yeah, I hear you. It is the WORST! But you can take a bunch of lessons from employer branding to create a resume that isn't just "good," but helps you stand out and get the job you want. Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. My free newsletter on employer brand headlines hit 1,250 subscribers, so I decided to revamp it on a better platform. Same great content, easier to read!

The future of employer branding (or maybe the maturation of it) lays in how well it is integrated into the corporate brand. The more your brand looks like a single idea seen through multiple lenses, the more each aspect can support the others. And there are few better examples of that than at Delta, where Holland McCue has pushed to create a seamless sense of brand, even when things are deeply chaotic and the future is uncertain. Here's my interview with Holland. Show notes: Talent Chooses...

This week we have a lovely long conversation with Charu Malhotra. Charu's worked on a number of employer brands that you've probably hear of, like Unilever, BP, and Ferrero (just to name a few). Enjoy! Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. My free newsletter on employer brand headlines hit 1,250 subscribers, so I decided to revamp it on a better platform. Same great content, easier to read! At...

We all make decisions based on mental shortcuts and pattern recognition. It's just what humans do. But if you're building a brand, these same shortcuts can keep you from seeing the brand that's right in front of you. And the more you learn about these biases, perhaps there are ways you can use them in increase talent attraction and engagement. Thanks to Jason Kent Crowell for the question! Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now!...

We are seeing the end of "monolithic employer brands," concepts that focused more on consistency that connecting to a person. But if you start thinking about your brand and how it can leverage its pillars better to various micro-cultures, suddenly your brand has more meaning. Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. My free newsletter on employer brand headlines hit 1,250 subscribers, so I decided...

In the last four months, everything has changed, including our candidates. They want different things, they behave differently, and the act differently. Have we changed our own processes the same way? Or are we still tweaking and optimizing? If the world is 100% different, why aren't we? Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. My free newsletter on employer brand headlines hit 1,250 subscribers,...

I'm seeing a lot of comments/chatter around businesses jettisoning their interest in employer brand as the pandemic/recession takes hold. And it makes sense: if you've built all your metrics and value around filling the top of the funnel, not having much of a recruiting funnel makes employer brand redundant. We all know employer brand is much much more than filling the funnel, but somewhere along the way, we got pigeon-holed into this limited value. So maybe it's time for employer branding...

Last year, employer brand was the buzz word, but where is the buzz now? Given a year or three to consider and implement employer branding strategies, where has employer brand landed as a corporate function?  Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. Sign up for my free newsletter on employer brand headlines Have a questions you would like two employer brand experts to answer on the show?...

The age old question: where should employer branding live? TA? Marketing? Comms? Like the "chicken or the egg" question, the answer involves a lot of evolution... Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. Sign up for my free newsletter on employer brand headlines Have a questions you would like two employer brand experts to answer on the show? There's a way to record your question on the...

Who's in charge of the company? Leadership, right? Well, recently it sure seems like the employees are making their voices heard in the strategic direction of a company. How does having staff more "in charge" of a company impact your ability to manage the employer brand? Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. Sign up for my free newsletter on employer brand headlines Have a questions you...

Yes, it is absolutely time for your employer brand to quit playing it safe. You and your brand need to take a stand for something. And while that sounds terrifying (trust me, I know), the opportunity it presents is absolutely amazing. Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available on Amazon right now! Get yours on Kindle or paperback. Sign up for my free newsletter on employer brand headlines I mentioned Overthrow II (the book) Have a questions you...

It may seem like a simple question, but how you answer it determines the scope of your work. If you want to keep the employer brand function from being a funnel-filler or the "swag maven," you need to answer the question right. Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available for pre-order on Amazon with a June 15, 2020 delivery. Get yours on Kindle or paperback. Sign up for my free newsletter on employer brand headlines Want to ask me anything? I have open...

Some stories are so engaging and attractive that other people extend them, telling stories you never envisioned.  Which, to be fair, is what you should want from your employer brand. Show notes: Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding is available for pre-order on Amazon with a June 15, 2020 delivery. Get yours on Kindle or paperback. Sign up for my free newsletter on employer brand headlines Want to ask me anything? I have open office hours. Grab your free spot. ...

For those of you old enough to remember, there was a time when music came on vinyl (sit down old man!). There was a thing (mostly in the punk world) called a "split single," where two bands who were friends would each take a side of the single. In a similar punk spirit, Rob Stevenson of Talk Talent To Me and I decided to have a nice rambling conversation about Covid, the industry, and what was (and wasn't) working for companies. This is part one of the conversation, but part two lives on...

Call it "employer blanding" or even "the sea of sameness," but there's a valid reason to think all employer brands look and feel the same. But that's not a rule or anything. The trick is learning how to push beyond the obvious to understand your talent targets and offer them something far more meaningful than what's obvious. Show notes: Yes, the books are starting to roll out!!! The Employer Brand Handbook Vol 1: Working with Recruiters is now live on Amazon Talent Chooses You:...