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By Rahul Khosla, Partner, eDynamic
HR spends so much and expends so much energy on attracting candidates, and so
often, when candidates visit company websites, they get turned off. Its because
the Careers section is the forgotten child of websites..they are unexciting,
lack sufficient content and do not convey why is good to work for the company.
Here are some things you can do to improve the Careers section of your website:
1. HR, take ownership of the Careers section of the website
Marketing owns the website and so they typically own the HR section of the
website. Since marketing is focused on lead generation and lead generation,
prospective employees are not on their radar! Would sales let HR manage the
sales process, then why should marketing own an important element of the
recruiting process? It will continuously suffer. You’ll probably never be the
prominent section on your website, however, if you have ownership of the
section, you will be able to drive a lot of traffic directly to this section.
Using Content Management workflows, Marketing can still control content
production, so their fears of inappropriate content making it to the website
will be alleviated
2. Its like selling!
Yes, you have to sell your company to you the prospect. you have to excite them,
engage them and get them to come on boar. The candidate will follow a process
much like buyers do in buying products. You have to engage and excite
prospects. Convey the essence of your company and what makes it unique and a
great place to work!
3. ‘Day in the Life’ of an employee
Get the candidates to feel what its like to work for your company. We’ve seen
these strategies work quite well for companies.
4. Testimonials
Video testimonials of existing employees are ideal to excite candidates about
what its like to work for you.
5. Make it easy to find job postings
Make it easy for prospects to find postings. Categorize postings based on
industry known organizational groups candidates are familiar with. If there
aren’t job postings, encourage prospects to send resumes anyways.
6. Benchmarks
Learn from those who are doing it well..General Mills, Unilever, Nestle and
Cadbury know how to engage candidates . here is a link to the benchmarking
exercise we performed
http://edynamic.net/upload/pdf/Careers%20Section%20Benchmarks.pdf
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