Video Marketing for Talent Teams

Mobile video technology is more accessible than ever before – and consequently more essential to an organization’s recruitment strategy. VideoMyJob co-founder and VP of Growth, Kristen Graham, discusses how to successfully implement mobile video in your company’s recruitment process.

It’s no surprise that job seekers want to hear from the people they will be working with, and reporting to, when considering an opportunity. Can you believe that your company’s mission and values, and a long list of responsibilities and requirements (written in the third person) is not the kind of compelling content that makes a candidate click ‘apply now’?

As we edge into an era of economic strain, the likelihood of flakey projects getting across the line and executives taking big risks are slim. Learning how to nail your business case and confidently ask for investment in times of uncertainty will be vital.

Think of your video job advert as, well, think of it as an advertisement! Imagine you are advertising a chocolate bar, do Cadbury list every.single.ingredient in their ads? No. Do they try and tap into an emotional or physical need that will prompt you to think of their chocolate bar next time you’re hungry/sad/romantic? Yes!

In times of crisis, how your company chooses to show up for its employees, customers and partners speaks volumes about your culture — more than that dusty set of values next to the photocopier ever will.

To help you create engaging and authentic video job ads we've refreshed our popular three-part ‘How to Create Video Jobs Ads’ series! Today we'll investigate how to write and structure your content, but stay tuned for the updated companion guides which cover best practice for filming and technical set up and practical strategies for authentic video job ad presenting.

What’s keeping the world's most senior leaders in talent up at night? As part of our inaugural State of Video in Talent survey we asked the executives tasked with leading talent acquisition and attraction teams to share their challenges, and their plans for addressing those challenges in 2020.

How will Employer Branding evolve in 2020?

It feels like the last few years have been a love parade of glittering tech floats, so many amazing shiny tools to choose from; chatbots, programmatic ads, video, augmented writing … what could possibly be next?

It’s been a big year for HorizonOne Recruitment; a string of awards, the launch of a new website and their highest headcount yet in just over 10 years of business. So how does a boutique recruitment agency, based in Canberra, win national awards and generally punch well above their weight?