Inbound Recruitment: Attracting Top Talent

Inbound Recruitment: The Best Practice for Attaining Top Talent

The term inbound marketing was coined byHubSpotback in 2006 to describe a new way of doing marketing. It was described as a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them.

This is where the concept of Inbound Recruitment came from- creating a remarkable candidate experience through employer brand content and marketing strategies that help companies build relationships with top talent. According to Harver, inbound recruiting is all about enticing candidates to come to you- in other words, creating an opportunity for your candidates to find your company.

Why apply an Inbound Recruitment strategy?

In 2022, Inbound Recruitment has become one of the recruiting strategies that allow you to extensively market your company by creating an outstanding experience for job seekers. By improving your employer's brand perception using specific content, you will be a target for most job seekers. This will also improve your relationships with the candidates leading to excellent referrals even if they do not get hired.

This recruitment trend will continue in 2022because the world has adapted to virtual work modes and has global opportunities. So, to attract and retain your candidates you need to market your brand with the positive truth about you. In 2020, 86% of HR managersrealized that recruitment is turning into marketing and the realization will continue to strengthen in 2022.

By adopting an inbound marketing approach to recruiting, companies can connect with passive and active job seekers, engage with their network, and delight candidates throughout the application process.

A great example of the success of Inbound Recruitment compared to a traditional recruitment strategy is a case we have recently had at Catenon with one of our clients in the Fishing sector. Below you will find an interview with María Ballesteros, Executive Director of Catenon, about the main challenges encountered during the project and how satisfied the client was.

How did the project come about?

I knew the client from previously doing recruitment processes the traditional way. The global HR director put me in touch with BU Norway for an international recruitment project. This project was very new as they were looking for a reactive strategy to attract talent through a Social Media campaignin7 countries of the European Union. In other words, they wanted candidates to come to them without having to do the usual direct search.

The client made this request to several recruitment companies, and Catenonwas the only company that managed to understand the client's needs and was able to propose a real solutionto meet their needs.

How was the solution proposed to the client?

We developed the creative and performance strategy for the entire campaign at a global level. We decided to make a targeted and highly qualified campaign on LinkedIn and Google Ads, to which we would apply a retargeting pixel on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Understanding the needs in the client's briefing and providing our expertise in the profilesthey were looking for, we applied keywords related to the offer, profile, and sector to ensure our ads will impact the right people, and we did the same with the audience segmentation on LinkedIn.

In addition, we built a landing page following the client's Brand Factory and proposed an online questionnaire, in which we made the first filtering of the candidate so the applications would come from people who could truly develop the position, thus saving time for the HR department.

What difficulties and lessons did you learn while developing the project?

Sticking to the client's Brand Book for the development of all the visuals and creatives we implemented in all the ads and on the landing page.

We know which social media channels are best to carry out this talent attractioncampaign and, which media are the best to get qualified leads in the investment strategy. It is also very important to track the ad campaign to see where it is working best and when to stop which type of ad or on which social network.

Finally, it is important to analyze the candidate's usability on the landing pageto make sure they understand the steps they have to take to send their CV.

What was the result?

In general terms, the results of the campaign have been very good, and the most important thing is that the client has been very satisfied.

To know the results in detail, we invite you to download the complete success case at the end of this article.

What implications do you think this project will have on the relationship with the client and for Catenon?

In the client's words: "I would say that we have at least 10 very interesting candidates. On a traditional campaign in Norway, we received 29 applications, but only one was relevant. Here we have a much more relevant selection based on education, experience and market knowledge."

For Catenon, this project opens the door to a new line of business and a new solution for our clients, which combines the best of the digital world, technology, globalization, our expertise in recruitment and talent attraction on a global level.

At Catenon, we opened a new Inbound Recruitment service and would be delighted to hear from you. If you are interested in developing a new, innovative and disruptive talent recruitment strategy for your company, contact us at [email protected]or learn more about this case study by downloading the PDF below:

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