Mobile Marketing – Recruitment – A Better Way

Posted on by John Flynn - CEO - Copley Advertising

There has been a big shift in recruiting and companies need to get on board. If you’re a company that needs niche workers (nurses, electricians, lab techs), you need to start thinking differently about your hiring process.

The bad news is that you need to treat your job candidates as consumers. You need to sell them on your work environment, growth potential and compensation package. For workers in the medical and IT sector, there are simply so many opportunities for them to choose from. You are competing against other companies for employees that can make a difference to your bottom line.

The good news is that if you make this shift in your thinking, you are going to attract highly-qualified candidates that will add to the corporate culture and profits. You will be in the forefront of recruiting as compared to 98% of your competitors, who are still using the pre-Civil War recruiting model.

The process of placing ads on Indeed or hiring a recruiter that has made some friends in the industry by sending birthday cards is outdated. You need to reach out to the workers you want and close the gap.

The way Copley Advertising accomplishes this is by using mobile marketing and integrating Facebook advertising. We geofence 50 locations (competitors, colleges, Fortune 500 and others) and tag all smartphones in those locations. Then, we place ads (video and banner) on the tagged phones. When the tagged device users open an app, the client’s ad will appear (depending on ad order). Once the user sees the ad, we place their ID in an impressions folder. If they engage with the ad, we capture their ID and place it in a retargeting folder. Once they reach the landing page, we capture their Facebook ID with a Facebook Pixel.

On the landing page, there is a video showing different employees talking about why the company is a wonderful place to work. They will talk about the four major things prospects are looking for: company culture, work/life balance, opportunities for advancement/promotion and compensation. Please note that competition is last.

Then a high-ranking company official will come and ask if the candidate could please leave their email to receive updates on positions in the company and news about jobs in the sector. Plus, every month they have an ice cream and pizza open house and the company would love to get to know them better.

Now you have their impression IDs, retargeting IDs and Facebook IDs. You will create a Facebook retargeting audience. We will run a mobile retargeting ID program off the mobile platform at 2x to 16X the CTR of the regular platform.

We will run the impression IDs through the Facebook converter and receive Facebook IDs at a 30% conversion rate. Then create a look-alike model at 1% of the US population using Facebook’s million data points. The look-alike model will generate two million IDs.

Then we create a Facebook campaign using the impression audience filtering and optimizing by ad set (starting at $5 a day using split testing).

The company now has an email campaign, Facebook retargeting campaign, mobile retargeting campaign, and a converted impression ID campaign. The company will rotate quality content. What is happening at the company? How the company is promoting workers. How the company is paying for employee work-related class. Summer Friday program. And more.

The company will become a resource for the industry. What’s happening in the sector? What programs do other companies have? What jobs are hot? The company will be seen as a thought-leader in the industry.

With little effort, the company has built a short-term/long-term funnel that will bring them quality candidates in the present and future. As the program continues, the company’s brand will increase and higher-level candidates will be applying.

The company has control over the program and after the first few months, Copley Advertising will only charge a maintenance fee to keep the program optimized. We have seen the retargeting CTR last over a year. Plus, you will always be adding IDs to the retargeting campaigns (mobile and Facebook) and impressions to the impression campaign.

The whole program is plug-and-play. You can stop one part and increase the activity on another.

“It’s time that companies use the tools from this decade to create targeted content programs using mobile marketing with Facebook integration. Building an independent short-term/long-term funnel that companies can control will allow them to break free of generic sites like Indeed and CareerBuilder, which tend to attract low-quality candidates. Our program will allow candidates chosen from high-quality companies that will fit into the corporate culture and bring a high skill set.” John Flynn, CEO, Copley Advertising.

Geofencing: Recruiters

Posted on by John Flynn - CEO - Copley Advertising

Geofencing is being used effectively by small and large retail businesses to attract customers and promote their products to specific groups in a personal and timely way that provides great results. With over 65% of consumers opening the push notifications they receive, and geofencing campaigns experiencing a 70% higher click through rate compared to standard ads as discussed in a previous article, it is no surprise that corporate organisations and health care providers are finding ways to use geofencing to target and recruit the best talent available for their businesses.

Target Talent

According to Glassdoor HR statistics, job location is one of the top 5 considerations of prospective employees when considering new employment. Corporate organizations – from accounting firms to transportation and logistical firms, even hospitals are using geofencing to find and reach out to the right candidates with some great results.

By reaching out to a target audience – one that is exhibiting signs they are ready to change roles through their web search history, purchasing activity and other internet use behaviors – with geofencing these companies have been able to increase the expertise within their business relatively easily.

For example, Holland Trucking needed more drivers for their workforce. With a limited recruitment budget they chose to send targeted ads with geofencing – their adverts had a quick link to the company’s job application webpage and was sent to prospective candidates within a five-mile radius of specific truck stops along one of the company’s major routes. The campaign resulted in increased traffic to their employment pages and better recruitment results for the business.

Reduce Costs

Bersin by Deloitte states the average cost to fill an open position is $4,000 and that takes around 52 days to find the right person.

High-Value Employee Targeting with geofencing can drastically reduce the cost of finding the right people for your business. A case study of an Atlanta-based health care provider looking for nurses is a great example of this. The healthcare provider and their marketing team decided to geofence other top rated medical facilities and send messages to relevant staff about the job openings reaching a targeted area with over 21,000 impressions.

Comparing the average cost of a geofencing marketing campaign and the time it takes to find the right people for a vacant position with traditional recruitment methods, it’s no wonder that larger corporations and health care providers are turning to geofencing, making it an innovation that is set to stay and become common practice within the recruitment sector.

Attract Top Talent to You

Rather than trawling through the thousands of resumes on recruitment websites, geofencing allows employers to target the talent they want and have them get in touch with them. Quite obviously, this saves a lot of time and hassle for the business. It is becoming commonplace for corporate and healthcare organizations to use technology to target the talent they need to keep their companies ahead of the competition – and geofencing is at the fore of this.

Recruiters can use geofencing to place ads around workplaces, universities, banks, hospitals – the list is virtually endless. Getting targeted messages to the right audiences has shown to give noticeable impact to recruitment campaigns when other approaches simply aren’t providing the results needed.

Copley Advertising has a team of geofencing experts who are willing to help you create an effective recruitment campaign. They can do all of the technical work for you and make the magic happen.  Have questions?  [email protected]