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Measuring the Effectiveness of Employer Brand

Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Employer Branding Effort

Employer branding plays a pivotal role in positioning your company as a desirable place to work. A strong employer brand influences candidate behavior, attracts top talent, and fosters a sense of pride among current employees. But how do you measure the effectiveness of your efforts? By focusing on key metrics that reflect both candidate behavior…

Recruitment Marketing ROI

Calculating your Recruitment Marketing ROI

Why is Brand Marketing allocated huge budgets every year and Recruitment Marketing begs and scrapes for every dollar? Yes, brand marketing is tied to company sales, but without talented employees, that consumer demand never translates to revenue.   One of the reasons for the inequity is Brand Marketing’s ability to show the return on investment associated with…

Weighing Tools for Recruitment Marketing

Winning at the Budget Game for Recruitment Marketing

Why is Brand Marketing allocated huge budgets every year and Recruitment Marketing begs and scrapes for every dollar?  Yes, brand marketing is tied to company sales, but without talented employees, that consumer demand never translates to revenue.    One of the reasons for the inequity is Brand Marketing’s ability to show the return on investment associated…

How to Transform your Employer Branding

Evaluating Adoption of a Video Platform for Recruitment Marketing

When considering the adoption of a video platform for employer branding and recruitment marketing, several indicators suggest that a company will see a substantial return on investment. Is it time for you to update your tools? Increasing Recruitment Costs: If traditional recruitment channels are becoming increasingly expensive without delivering commhttps://www.sparcstart.com/increasing-your-impact/ensurate results, it might be time…

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Increasing the Impact and ROI of your Recruitment Marketing

  If you want to work efficiently and maximize your recruitment marketing ROI, having a centralized and easily accessible platform for all your recruitment marketing videos, images, and documents is no longer a luxury—it is a necessity. Storing these resources on SharePoint, Google Docs, or a gated FTP is almost the same as deleting them….

Employee Recruitment Software

The Dehumanization of Employee Recruiting: Navigating Automated Processes and AI

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation has become increasingly prominent in recruiting. Every podcast, webinar and conference is dominated by discussions of new technologies. While these options promise efficiency and streamlined processes, they have inadvertently led to a dehumanization in the process. Candidates often find themselves interacting with impersonal automated systems, struggling to…

Imbalance between Talent Acquisition Requirements and Resources

Solving the Imbalance between TA Requirements and Resources

I was at a conference last week and heard a dozen variations of “our TA budget is being cut” or “we are scaling back.” There is no doubt that the funding available to TA during the post-pandemic is being reduced even if requirements are not declining proportionately. TA leaders are frustrated at the imbalance between…

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What Diversity Recruiting Can Learn from Horror Films

Before you start your rant about the inappropriateness of including diversity recruiting in the same sentence as horror films, or start laughing because the juxtaposition completely mirrors your experience, hear me out. What time of day do essentially all horror scenes happen?  Night time, of course when it is dark.  Some evil being is right…

Strong Employer Brand

Building an Authentic EVP Video Library for Long-Term Impact

This month members from the SparcStart team traveled to Lisbon to take part in World Employer Branding Day 2022. Our CEO Maury Hanigan hosted a workshop titled “Building an Authentic EVP Video Library for Long-Term Impact”. Below is the write up of that webinar that we would like to share so that those who were…