How to go from EVP to an Employer Brand

 

Many HR departments spend a considerable amount of time, effort and resources to define their EVP (Employee Value Proposition) but are either unsure of what to do with it or they are unable to really  communicate that effectively.

Here's a step by step guide to leverage your EVP and convert it into an effective Employer Brand. Of course, this is an incredibly generic approach, and would need to be customised depending on your company's current reality and business objectives. Reach me on Linkedin if you want to know how I can help

Step 1: Analysis

Identify Target Talent Segments in each category you want to attract, based on:

i.             Demographics

ii.             Education

iii.            Role/Position

iv.           Current Employer

    Identify where the above talent segments can be reached and the appropriate message and media to use to build an awareness of your company, its culture, the various building blocks of the EVP. Leveraging candidate personas can be an incredibly powerful tool in building them.

 Step 2: Crafting the messages

Work along with your Marketing/Corporate Communication teams/external agency to identify employee stories that exemplify the various parts of the EVP. Work with design agencies (or internal design team if you have one) to make images, infographics and videos of the identified stories. 

Undertake a dipstick test to evaluate the efficacy of the content and messaging.

Step 3: Delivering the message

Organic

1. Draw up a content calendar and wotk with internal communication teams/external partners on which content wil be posted when. Leave room for flexibility for impromptu moments

2. Draw up an Employee Advocacy plan to spread the stories across various networks by leveraging your existing employees' reach. 

Inorganic

Draw up a social media advertising campaign to reach identified target groups, experiment, look at what's working and 

 Step 4: Tracking Metrics

Some of the metrics that could be tracked are:

1.            Increase in LinkedIn and Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers. These are, to repeat, just indicative. They might differ depending on the target talent segments.

2.              Engagement of each post on each network (views, comments, likes)

3.             Increase in number of hits to your career website

4.            Growth in application numbers

Points to remember

This is a very simplified guide and would need to be customised to the needs of your company. Each of the above sub-steps are also quite detailed and would need to be planned and executed depending on the maturity of your organization. and if you would want me to consult with you reach out to me on Linkedin. 

       

 

The main reasons employees are using the Mindhouse Mental Health

 Mindhouse is an app which is co-founded by Pankaj Chaddah and Pooja Khanna. Pankaj is also a co-founder of Zomato, one of India's biggest internet consumer stories. Pooja was one of Zomato's earliest employees.

Their new venture Mindhouse is positioned as a "workout for the mind" focusing on meditation and yoga.

When Pankaj reached out to me to help Mindhouse reach out to HR decision makers I asked him how many were using it, and for what purpose

His answer surprised me!

Of the 15,000 employees across 500 employers this is what they focused on most for using the app

Which is interesting because as work from home becomes normal, focus might suffer. So if you'd want your company to leverage the Mindhouse app for employee's mental wellbeing reach out to me at gautam dot ghosh at gmail and I'll connect you to the team at Mindhouse

Current corporate users are 

 

My first podcast, talking on Employee Wellbeing and Engagement

 

SHRM on AIR’s special episode on managing employee wellbeing features, Ketan Krishna, Head People Function and yours truly, with our host - Archana Jerath where they talk about the challenges of working remotely and managing employee wellbeing at workplace. Let’s know it all in this exclusive episode, in partnership with RentoMojo.
Listen to episode #SHRMonAir

#SHRM #SHRMRadio #SHRMOnAir #Radio #Podcast #SHRMAir

https://bit.ly/35vy0f9

Interviewed by Aniisu Verghese on Personal Branding

 Some months ago I was interviewed by Communications specialist Aniisu Verghese on my approach to personal branding 

You can find the transcript of the interview here.

As I share in the interview I have mixed feelings about the term. Since I studied organizational behavior and HR, I am aware of the term of branding and not very comfortable with it. According to marketing literature, a person is hugely complex and there are also group dynamics involved when it comes to branding.  

You all can also find the video of the interview

#WorkLifeTV A conversation with Debu Mishra and Anuranjita Kumar on the Shape Of Work in the COVID19 era

My friend Debu Mishra reached out to me, saying that he was starting a YouTube channel called "WorkLifeTV" and wanted me to be to be his first guest along with Anuranjita Kumar (HR Leader, author and now a VC) 

        

We had a freewheeling conversation on how work is changing in current times.

An edited video of the conversation is embedded below

 

My video interview with peopleHum on #HRTech and related topics

I had an interesting conversation with Aishwarya of peopleHum on the state of the HR Technology market and aligned topics.






You can find the transcript of my interview on the peopleHum Blog too



And listen to the podcast here