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5 Easy Ways to Create Content to Build Your Recruitment Brand

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5 Easy Ways to Create Content to Build Your Recruitment Brand

Rachael Moss
| February 24, 2020
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What does the recruitment industry need? More content!  That was one of the key messages espoused by speakers at the UK’s largest recruitment industry event, RecExpo, earlier this month.

For most agencies this call to generate marketing content week after week will be a real challenge.

So here’s five ways you can dial down on new content creation while continuing to build your brand.

1. Recruitment agencies generate more content than virtually any other B2B business. Every day your consultants register new jobs. These jobs are your (not so) secret weapon in the battle for relevant web traffic. They are rich in keywords that resonate with your target audience. So long as the jobs appear on your own website, and are not just posted on job boards, they are helping with your SEO.

Make sure they are not confined to your CRM because they can be filled from your existing database - happy days from a speed-to-fill perspective, but less so from a brand building aspect.

Every job needs to be posted on your website. And your website needs to be built so that it archives job posts to maximize on the brand equity in every advert, rather than deleting them once they are filled. This is where selecting a website platform built specifically for the recruitment industry pays dividends over a WordPress site.

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2. Nurture your brand ambassadors. Lean on them to help fill your content funnel. Do you employ consultants with an industry background in your area of specialism? Tap into their knowledge. If they can’t find the time to write blogs of their own (it’s a rare breed who will), set up a monthly quick-fire call to quiz them about what’s happening in the market.

Better still, video interview them for a variety of content that can be published more quickly than long-form content, with the added benefit of video content being the most engaging form of social media content out there. In fact, it’s estimated that the average person will spend 100 minutes every day watching online videos in 2021 according to Smart Insights.

Are your candidates and clients satisfied? Ask them to write a testimonial. Peer-to-peer recommendations give an authentic credence to your brand, especially as younger generations are more skeptical about corporate messaging.

3. Build relationships with influencers in your field. Get connected with the industry press, membership bodies and partners relevant to your key sectors. Offer insights and commentary from your leadership team in return for backlinks to your site when they mention you. Ask your senior managers and team leaders who they know in your target industries that you can reach out to for quotes or to tag when they are sharing your content across their social channels.

4. Repurpose your existing content. Take a look at the wealth of information you already provide to support your candidates. Or the tender documents you send to clients. Consider how can this be repackaged into blog posts, web copy or social posts.

Content has an online shelf life. Who reads articles that are more than a few years old for fear they are outdated? Look back on previous articles you’ve written. Simply updating and republishing old blog posts with new content and images can increase organic traffic by as much as 106% according to Hubspot.

5. Distribute more widely. Think reach: same content, populated across more channels. It goes without saying to share your content across social media. But are you always encouraging the reverse by providing links to your social media on all content pages as a call to action?  Obtaining backlinks on social media shows Google that you’re creating valuable content people are actively engaging with, improving your rankings. As well as sharing content on your own website are you aiming to get it published by other industry sources relevant to your target candidates and clients?

Content is king in the quest for inbound candidate attraction and wider brand awareness. We just have to work smarter not harder to feed the beast.

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