Talent Blazers

"I started thinking about employee advocacy because I did know that content shared by employees receives eights times more engagement thank content shared by brand channels.

And, eight-six of employees say being a part of a formal advocacy program say it had a positive affect on their careers."

Brittany Anderson is a communications professional who has entered into the employee branding space as both the employer brand and community lead for VideoMyJob.

She is approaching four years with the organisation after serving major communications roles at the the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and digital marketing agency, King Content.

Take a moment to listen to her episode on how she amplified VMJs employer brand essence by using internal employee advocacy stories.

“The reality is, when you get to workshops and focus groups, you want to be unearthing new insights.

What you don’t want to do is rehash something that the organisation already knows because of data they’ve collected.”

Alana Bennett is the founder of her consultancy, Connected Experience, and a self described human experience fanatic. Her experience is extensive with a solid background in human relations and one of the first movers in the emergence of employer branding. 

“We spend quite a long time working at the business case stage of things because by the time comms or TA comes to us, they’re really knowledgable about of what EVPs are all about.

The things is, there’s a need to get the business to come on the journey and be educated on this early on.”

Tim Mundy is the founder of Digital Affair where he and his team help shape the employer brands of some of the worlds biggest organizations. In addition to his extensive work consulting, Tim is also one of the founders of our very own VideoMyJob and sits on the board of directors.

"The candidate experience is actually the generated outcome of other relationships and other peoples input into the journey for the hiring process.

So when we think about that, who are the other humans who have touched that journey?"

Steve Usher is the co-founder of 5ive Studio, where he and his team specialise in helping organizations elevate their candidate and employer experience with a design forward approach. 

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"I think the pandemic has taught us that you don't need high quality production all the time. It's actually about the story.

And as long as the story is good and engaging, people will interact with it." 

Simon Druery has long been an advocate for the power of story telling and its place as the hero of any meaningful EVP. Whether it's a simple testimonial or a full window view into the organization, people's stories are what makes not just an EVP but your employer brand as a whole. 

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“Your employer brand should be three things; It should be authentic, authentic and it should be authentic.

If it’s one of those, you’re on to a winner.”

Jason Burns is one of Australia's expert Employer Value Proposition consultants with a real emphasis in the need for authenticity when taking on any EVP project. Whether it's starting one for the first time, to evolving yours to match the scale and state of your organization. 

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“ROI is so critical I mentioned. I think teams are finally getting the support and funding, or 'the airtime' for EVP as a topic. Often for the first time.

So it’s really important to make for damn sure that you’re tracking everything to prove the effectiveness of the EVP. It’s business at the end of the day."

Hear from Brie Mason, one of Australia's veteran trail blazers in the realm of employer value proposition creation, on the importance on 'all hands in' EVP development and amplification. 

“You know the biggest question that not enough agencies ask, right at the beginning, is ‘what are the problems that you’re trying to solve?’

So we look to the workforce data.”

Mark Puncher talks about the value already inside every organization in the form of employee experiences and the lessons he's learned from internal interviews to develop you employee value proposition. 

"Culture is becoming a huge factor for talent at the moment. Talent want to know 'what's it like?' How are your current employees experience that culture? What are they getting out of it? How do you actually demonstrate a good cultural place to work?

A lot of this is now not just saying, it's actually showing. So again, a lot of talent want to see. And that where you messaging, your content, your story tellings comes in."

Ruby Jeer discusses the need for foundation pillars in structuring an EVP and where the balance is between aspiration and realistic employer brand.

"We always recommend to launch a new EVP internally first. And I think that's important from an authenticity perspective. There's an opportunity to lift morale, remind people why they're there, and galvanize an internal audience.

You know, that can have an immediate impact on productivity; and just getting feedback and authentic content."

The journey of creating an EVP spans across areas such as research, strategy, expectation setting, and amplification. So it's no wonder many organizations look for expertise in the likes of Bryan Adams to help get their EVP not only established but built with authenticity.

Find out Bryan's take on what organizations need to consider when undertaking an EVP project for existing employees and new candidates.