Recruitment Marketing is a top of the candidate funnel talent acquisition strategy, that leverages digital marketing best practices to attract, engage and nurture passive candidates for current and future hiring initiatives. The objectives of recruitment marketing campaigns are to create awareness of your company, build trust in your employment brand and promote your culture, throughout the candidate journey, so a passive candidate expresses interest in career opportunity   with your company.

Recruitment marketing leverages consistent, integrated marketing communication messaging and inbound marketing best practices, to educate passive talent about your culture, values, career opportunities and build trust in your employment brand, so they will apply now for a current position or remain engaged with your company for future opportunities. This is achieved through a variety of tactics including; SEO, PPC, landing pages, content marketing, storytelling, social marketing, mobile marketing, email marketing, talent communities, career sites, and employment videos.

Recruitment Marketing is critical in today’s competitive recruiting world because candidates are increasingly behaving like consumers. Before candidates decide to apply, they are interacting a few times with your company, to learn more about your culture values and career opportunities to decide if you’re the right employer to fulfill their personal and professional needs by; reviewing your career site and social pages, reading your job ads, blog posts, looking at employer review sites, talking to their friends and their social connections.

Implementing recruitment marketing best practices in your company is an essential component of a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy that goes beyond the status quo of job board post and pray. Adopting recruitment marketing best practices, is a game changer for your talent strategy to gain a competitive edge in the never-ending battle to attract top candidates and distinguish your culture and employment brand from your competitors.

To effectively implement, manage and analyze the progress of your recruitment marketing campaigns, you should utilize a SaaS recruitment marketing platform. The functionality to look for in a SaaS Recruitment Marketing Platform includes but is not limited to; Landing Pages, Career Site, Social Content Promotion, Job Distribution, Talent Network, CRM, Email Marketing and Analytics. 

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