Recruitment Marketing Tips
How to Use Recruitment Awards in 2022 to Drive Your Sales Pipeline
We’re passionate about recruitment awards! Whether you’re entering, winning, attending or spying, there’s ROI to be had for recruiters, beyond simply having a recruitment award trophy.There are 2 things I want to talk about today:The Recruitment Awards happening in 2022A top tip on how to run your recruitment sales strategy with awards, without even submitting an awards entry!We Are Award Winners!We are proud to be triple award winners, including the APSCo award for Affiliate Member of the Year. Luckily, we followed our own advice when submitting our entries. As a frequent judge and recruitment marketing mentor, I help recruitment marketers to craft their awards entries and to focus on which awards are really going to add value.(Recruitment Award Winning Hack: often the best awards are the ones which are NOT recruitment specific – i.e. the ones for your sector… which are not always recruitment – IT / Games / Medical, etc.)1. Your List of Recruitment Awards for 2022Check out our 2022 list recruitment awards list below! (Have we missed any recruitment awards for the remainder of 2022? Contact Us to get them added.)This year recruiters need to do more with less. The goal is never to win an award. The goal is to generate more speed and pipeline. To give you support, we’ve created our Recruitment Awards Toolkit for recruitment leaders, recruiters and marketers to improve their awards submissions, and see ROI from the events (whether they enter, win, or simply attend!).Onrec AwardsMarch 2022 - The prestigious Onrec Awards 2022 Ceremony now in its 16th year has cemented itself in the calendar as the industry's must attend event. Not only is it an evening to celebrate the very best in Online Recruitment but it is also a chance to network with the very best suppliers and HR in recruitment.Recruiter AwardsSeptember 2022 - The iconic Recruiter Awards is the UK’s largest event for the entire recruitment community, recognising outstanding achievements by agencies and in-house recruiters. Achievements in recruitment marketing and technology also are spotlighted on the night.APSCo Awards for ExcellenceSeptember 2022 - The APSCo Awards for Excellence are a prestigious accolade in professional recruitment. The awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the professional recruitment sector and are a unique indicator of professional standards. They are widely recognised by clients as well as the recruitment sector. The awards are free to enter and open to all APSCo members.TIARA Recruitment AwardsOctober 2022 - The TIARA Recruitment Awards recognises excellence in the UK’s best performing recruitment companies with revenues above £5m.The Recruitment Marketing AwardsOctober 2022 - The Recruitment Marketing Awards 2022 feature 26 categories plus the “Grand Prix” overall winner. They recognise how outstanding creativity, combined with the right medium, results in successful recruitment campaigns.The Global Recruiter UK Industry AwardsNovember 2022 - The Global Recruiter Industry Awards celebrates the best of the best in recruitment. The Awards are totally free to enter, which means that the smallest and newest players in the industry have the chance to be recognised alongside established organisations.NORAsNovember 2022 - Established in 2001, the National Online Recruitment Awards have been created to acknowledge and reward excellence in online recruitment practice. They are dedicated to the continual improvement and evolution of the candidate experience. As a previous judge and recruitment marketing whizz, my expertise in recruitment websites delivering ROI could help you nail this one!2. Recruitment Awards Driving Your Sales Strategy (Without Even Entering)Let's face it, now more than ever, your inbound sales strategies are absolutely crucial in a post-pandemic world where the war for talent is raging, counteroffers are rife, and clients need recruiters that they can trust, who understand their niche.My top tip to add turbo to your sales strategy? Speedily research which awards are prevalent in your niche sectors, and track the shortlists and winners and use this data to target your client base. By definition, clients that are entering awards, tend to be high growth, ambitious, and likely have money and time to spend on recruitment too!. Surely?We know how important it is to see ROI from entering awards. It’s great to win and be recognised, but what about not entering at all, and simply using the awards process to drive your sales process? Use this great awards list website (and Google) to help you unearth a list of awards in your sectors. Plot the dates into your diaries and pick up the phone! DOWNLOAD YOUR RECRUITMENT AWARDS TOOLKITHIIT Us, Recruiters!Speaking of growth and wins, our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT, was built to solve recruiter's pain points and provide solutions to help recruiters and recruitment leaders save time, develop speedy processes and generate more of the 4Cs - candidates, clients, colleagues and cash!Try Recruitment HIIT. We understand the importance of having a sales-led marketing strategy, automating your recruitment workflows and using your recruitment systems to get the best out of your teams. We work with recruiters to help them achieve their business goals and generate ROI from their key systems through Bullhorn and Herefish training, and other key recruitment systems like SourceBreaker, Cloudcall, Paiger, which you can find on Recruitment HIIT too.TRY RECRUITMENT HIITREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
How Can Recruiters Get More Time on the Phone (and use LinkedIn Less?)
Recruiters, if 82% of your prospects can be reached via social media, but you’re likely really busy advertising jobs, screening, managing your accounts, you need some tips to help you speedily use social media for BD and recruitment.We have some great sales and recruitment tips on our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT. How Can Recruiters Use Social Media to Sell and Recruit?Inbound Sales tips for recruiters are often littered with “long haul” tips which the average recruiter has no time for. Now, more than ever, recruiters are time starved, marketers are desperately trying to add significant value to their recruitment businesses, and candidates and clients need more specialist and speedy help.You need a simple and effective inbound sales process to help you sell and recruit:You need more convertible leads,You need better quality candidates to apply for your jobsYou need tips to help you manage your clients beyond the first sale – account management.Our Inbound (and LinkedIn HIIT) shows recruiters, resourcers, and their marketers how to:Attract candidates and clients whilst you sleep.Reduce the time you spend sourcing by up to 50%.Get back on the phone so you can focus on converting and keeping your candidates and clients. Oh! AND we have some fabulous Hintro and Hinterview tips to help you add some turbo (and video) to your sales and recruitment workflow.Watch Lisa's Pep Talk About Inbound Sales and What's in It for YouThe Coolest Recruitment Tool is the RecruiterWe have four fitness paths in Recruitment HIIT for new and experienced recruiters and resourcers to help you turbo boost your sourcing, build your sales muscles, create super effective job adverts so you can increase your speed and pipeline. Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters and resourcers source, convert quicker and develop healthy pipelines, and helps marketers generate more of the 3Cs. We aim to save every recruiter and marketer at least 1 hour per day (6 working weeks a year)- more billing time, more fees!We’d love you to try Recruitment HIIT for free for 7 days.TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT 7 DAYS FOR FREEREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
3 Ways to be a Jedi Recruiter
Recruiters! Did you know it takes over 25 hours to watch all of the Star Wars movies? I personally think that's a great use of time, of course, once you've attracted, engaged, converted, and placed the best candidates in the galaxy! Every day is a Kessel Run to the recruiters we work with! Being a Jedi is crucial!To celebrate the annual upcoming Star Wars Day I spoke with a fellow Star Wars geek (and recruitment trainer), Phil, Head of Talent at First Point Group, about what he feels the top 3 skills that Jedi and Recruiters share.Defence – Recruiters Need to DefendThe ability to objection handle, be prepared, to expect the unexpected – that’s part of recruitment. It’s about reading the Jedi path in front of you, and being ready to defend. It’s about defending your candidates, whether they be scruffy-looking nerf herders, or teachers. And being a recruiter is about knowing when to drop your guard. Knowing when to show passion and understanding is key! Knowing when to let the Wookie win is a skill!Knowledge – Be a Knowledgeable RecruiterKnow your market! Whether it be Ewoks, or IT Developers, Millennium Falcon flight skills, or how to down a Dreadnaught, you need to be knowledgeable. What’s old, new, emerging in your sector…? Knowing the market, client, job, candidate, (and who your sister is) is key. Without this knowledge who knows who you’ll end up kissing!Training – Recruitment Training in The ForceLike Jedi, recruiters continuously training is a must. As Yoda says - “There is no try, only do!” As much as Jedi have the gene (midi-chlorian) they need to constantly train to battle dark forces, whether they be dirty data, drop outs, back door placements, or challenging clients (siths?).Jedi, like recruiters, need to follow “the way”, whilst changing lives. They need to know when to lead, when to fight, and when to kiss! Never let it be said that recruitment is just a job – it’s a Way! Someone (Mando) once said… “This is the way!” Thanks Phil– The Force is strong in you!The Coolest Recruitment Tool is the RecruiterYour coolest tool is the recruiter, but when they drown in dirty data, ineffective recruitment processes, and costly recruitment systems, recruitment becomes slow, risky and expensive.Continuous training and effective use of systems increases productivity by 30-40% and sales by 29%.Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker and develop healthy pipelines, and helps marketers generate more of the 3Cs. We aim to save every recruiter and marketer at least 1 hour per day - more billing time, more fees!TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT FOR FREEREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
Recruitment Automation: Less Content, more Recruitment and Sales
Going into the 2022 recruitment marketers need to focus on candidates, clients and colleagues, not colour, clicks and copy. How can you develop a sales-led recruitment marketing strategy using recruitment automation to generate real ROI?You need to develop a content and recruitment automation strategy that doesn't waste your time and serves the purpose of proactively driving your sales and talent pipeline, rather than simply filling your day with pointless content creation!Driving a Sales Led Marketing StrategyOn November 18, Lisa spoke at the Recruitment Marketing Congress on the topic 'Recruitment Automation: Less Content, More Recruitment and Sales.'Lisa believes:Recruiters and their marketers need less content, more marketing, and smart automation.Watch Lisa's Talk on Less Content, More Recruitment Sales at the Recruitment Marketing CongressTalking of Driving Recruitment Sales...Could you save your recruiters an hour a day, and make an extra £18,750 a year (or £187,500 if there are 10 of you?)Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).WATCH THE RECRUITMENT MARKETING CONGRESS WEBINAR HEREREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAINING
Recruitment Marketing Automation for 2021, with APSCo
How can you make sure that going into 2022 is about recruitment marketing driving the sales process, not simply supporting it? Data is more precious than oil (and is often just as dirty!), processes can make or break a sale, and your people are at the heart of what you do, and likely need transparency and ease of workload. So APSCo and I have something to help you.Recruitment Automation, Recruitment Marketers and APSCoMarketers and marketing should be at the forefront of data, lead generation, and automations if they are to ensure that their recruitment sales teams benefit from the strong trend of data-based sales. But Recruitment Marketers are often either foxed by what automations are, or they don't know where to start. But in any event, they get how important they are likely to be to their recruitment business. As chairs of APSCo's Recruitment Marketing Forum, Niomi and Lisa are running a series of high energy interactive webinars for marketers and their leaders who want to be smart and profitable.We started our series in February by answering 2 crucial questions: What is automation for recruitment and how do marketers lead the way? And what automations exist for marketers to save them time and give them space to be strategic Then in May we talked with Adam Dale from SourceBreaker about how to nail the sale with automation. In September we spoke with Darren Westall from Paiger, about using recruitment automation to drive candidate attraction, sourcing and management. Our final event of 2021 will cover Job Management 09/12/2021 14:00 - 15:00 (register here)We’d love to see you on our final APSCo Marketing Forum webinar for the year, so we can work with you to drive your skills, your teams, and your recruitment businesses safely and smartly going into 2022. REGISTER FOR APSCO'S AUTOMATION WEBINAR IN DECEMBERREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAINING
Recruitment Marketers! Develop a Content Strategy That Doesn't Waste Your Time
Recruitment Marketers and Leaders, you need to focus your time and resources on the things that will really help generate more ROI for your recruitment business. But how, when 60%-70% of your content generation time may be wasted?The Recruitment Marketing Congress is geared to help recruitment marketers find solid, actionable, solutions to help you maximise your opportunities.Are You Wasting 60% of Your Time?Gartner tells us that 60-70% of the content created is never seen – so why are recruiters and their marketers often fixated on creating it.How can you create a “less content, more marketing” strategy to ensure that every piece of content you create has a purpose beyond keeping you busy, and generating the odd click?And then have time to do the good stuff – candidate, client, colleague generation?On, 22/04/21, 14:30GMT, Lisa spoke about how you can perfect your content strategy to ensure you are sending the right message to your ideal candidates and clients.Caroline Vooght, Director Expion Search & Selection. Barclay Jones are the "go to" place for recruitment marketing. Would I recommend? Yes - they helped us achieve our goal. We now have great copy, more time, and a greater understanding of how to write Google-enabled copy to help us in the future.3 words to describe them: knowledge, capability, partnership.Watch the Recruitment Marketing Webinar with UK Recruiter HereHelp Your Recruiters Generate More SalesRecruiters who use social selling are 50% more likely to meet or exceed their quota. And if they use personas and strong buyer's journeys, the stats are even higher! We've got some speed HIIT (high intensity interval training). Be a hero, and help them save time, source quicker, generate leads - get them to trial Recruitment HIIT free for 7 days.TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT 7 DAYS FOR FREEREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAINING
Recruitment Automation – Improved Speed, Cleaner Data, Increased Sales with Members Only
Recruitment Marketers and Leaders will see and hear me talking a lot about recruitment and marketing automation. As part of my mission to train and mentor recruiters and their marketers to generate more speed and pipeline, recruitment automation is firmly at the centre of what my team and I are helping recruiters with... Here's a webinar to talk a little about theory and a LOT about cleaner data, improved speed, better candidates, stronger sales, happier, organised recruiters! Who thought marketing could do all of that?Recruitment Automation - More Than Email Marketing On Speed!Simon at Member's Only asked me to join his Recruitment Supplier Showcase '21 - a three-day online event to see recruitment agency products and services and hear from some of the industry’s preeminent thought-leaders.There are a lot of online events for recruitment - this event delivered less theory and more "bulls-eye" practical content that you can take away and do something with.Lisa spoke about recruitment and marketing automation - and gave practical ideas to help marketing DRIVE the sales process rather than simply react to it.What is recruitment automation? How do recruitment marketers lead the way and use it to generate sales?What automation ideas will increase speed and add to the pipeline for sales and marketing ROI?Watch the Recruitment Marketing Webinar with Members Only HereREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAINING
Recruitment Marketing ROI for 2021 with Members Only
Recruitment sales and marketing is a time and numbers game. 2020 was a massive distraction and disruption for the market – what do we need to do in 2021 to ensure that we spend the right time generating the right numbers? (Leads, candidates, opps, sales, recruiters?)Recruitment Marketing ROI for 2021How can recruitment marketing help with?:Data-based selling – which will be the dominant approach by 2025! Sourcing – the average recruiter spends in excess of 13 hours a week sourcing, only to find that most of their placed candidates, were already on their internal system! How to save time and money through recruitment marketing Retention – 2020 taught us some serious lessons about retaining candidates, clients, and colleagues – how can automation, and database monetisation help? Lead generation and business development – what should recruitment marketing be doing to rebuild recruitment businesses in 2021?Lisa will be talking Recruitment Marketing ROI 2021 with the knowledgeable Simon from Members Only - who shares her passion for marketing driving sales and recruitment business growth.Watch the Recruitment Marketing Webinar with Members Only HereREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAINING
4 Minutes for Recruitment Marketing to Generate Real ROI
Recruitment Leaders, and their Marketers, need to get ready for 2021. You need to develop higher expectations of what recruitment marketing can and should achieve. Here’s a pep talk that I gave at the beginning of the recent APSCo Marketing Forum. 4 Minutes for Recruitment Marketing to Generate Real ROIEven before Covid, getting your head around how sales and marketing could be more connected was a challenge:DataSystemsProcessPeople... were often misaligned. And FOMO meant that best practice sales-led marketing was sacrificed in favour of “Quick! Throw something at the wall!”.And with our sectors rapidly evolving, learning and development has never been more important. Staying up to speed with best practice use of marketing and sales tech and data is going to be a crucial goal for 2021.As a sales and marketing mentor in recruitment, I know that there's lots of change happening in the industry. Right now there's lots of positive tech and best practice ideas; recruitment automation and data monetisation has never been more important. Are your sales and marketing teams geared up? Or are you simply spending your profits on technology and data storage?Recruitment Marketing and Sales is a Time GameThe thing you have to focus on is how can you generate more time for your recruiters to be effective, and you need more time to make changes to your business.You need more time to either hire or training your experienced staff to be more effective. So fixate on small changes that you might be able to make to your business (or even large ones) to create more time, because that's where you're going to be able to build more become a much more stable business.Recruitment Marketing and Sales is a Numbers GameLook at the stats I share in the video below. Think:Data-based sellingLess time sourcingMore time retainingLead generationAnd, automating your recruitment to work less hours, bill more clients, hire less staff. - or indeed all 3!Watch this 4 minute pep talk for recruitment leaders and marketers. Shout if you’d value a call to go through how 2021 is a moment away and could be a lot more “fun/profitable” than 2020 if you have a connected sales and marketing function.Watch the Recruitment Marketing Pep Talk I Gave to APSCo MembersTalking of 2021 Being Awesome...Could you save your recruiters an hour a day, and make an extra £18,750 a year (or £187,500 if there are 10 of you?)Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs). TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT 7 DAYS FOR FREEREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAINING
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