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How Amazing Recruitment Ads Get You Way More Than You Bargained For

Proactive recruitment ads placed in mass media do what great branding ads do, but now you are attracting two different kinds of prospects.

Jeff Sexton
Jeff Sexton
May 14, 2021
How Amazing Recruitment Ads Get You Way More Than You Bargained For

"Amazing Recruitment Ads" — sounds like hype, right?It’s not. It’s simply saying that amazing recruiting ads will deliver more than just great employment candidates. Here’s what I mean:A good branding ad will always be crafted to speak to the vast majority of the audience who are not currently in the market for a given product or service. So great copywriters tattoo on their brains that they’re really talking to people who must be seduced and entertained.“Disinterested bystanders” that might be turned into an attentive audience — IF and ONLY IF — the ad is truly unignorable. Believe me, one writes differently with that goal in mind.

What About Branding Ads that “Make An Offer”?

This remains the case even if the branding ad in question presents some kind of evergreen offer to the public. Yes, every Geico commercial promises that _“15 minutes could save you 15% on car insurance.”_But those commercials are NOT direct response ads.

geico

They’re entertaining branding ads meant to burn that offer into your brain for the next time you pay your insurance and think you’re paying too much. Hence the need for the caveman and the gecko and all the other funny schtick that Geico ads are famous for.

Why Recruiting Ads Take This to an Extreme

Recruiting Ads are an extreme version of this dynamic. If the percentage of the audience looking to buy a new car is small, think about how much smaller it is for, say, plumbers interested in a new job?Now, the audience is larger than just potential job applicants. You’re also trying to reach the extended social network of all those plumbers (or HVAC techs or Customer Service Reps, etc.)‘Cause if you reach and persuade a candidate’s spouse, parents, friends, then your message for a great job opportunity will get passed along. Still, your ad’s actual offer will only be relevant to an astonishingly small percentage of the listener or viewership. So do you waste your opportunity to talk to the 98%+ of the audience who can’t take you up on your offer?Hell, no. That would be monumentally stupid. You have to craft an ad that will be entertaining and persuasive to the vast majority of the audience who aren’t interested in your job offer. That’s what makes it an example of extreme branding. Here’s an example of what that would sound like:

Miller’s Radio Ad

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A Unique Opportunity

There’s one more reason why recruiting ads are “amazing.”Those indifferent bystanders won’t know or even suspect that the recruitment spot they think that they’re “overhearing” wasn’t actually written directly to and for them.

listening in

Somewhere in their minds, they subconsciously feel as if they’re eavesdropping on a conversation between the company and the prospective candidate. And that provides the copywriter with a unique opportunity. He can use the recruiting spot to sneak messages into the minds of eavesdroppers that might have “bounced off” of skepticism had they appeared in a “regular” ad. And, yes, this phenomenon can also be used in reverse — directly speaking to the audience at large in order to sneak messages into prospective employees’ minds. That “reverse technique” sounds like this:

Griffin Radio Ad

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The Proof Is In the Pudding

But how do I know this is true?How do I know recruiting ads can actually drive branding results with customers?I know because I’ve recently had two different clients tell me about major sales they picked up from customers who came to them specifically and self-admittedly because of a recruiting spot we ran for them. They even quoted the spot back to the owners when talking about why they bought from them. Here’s a screenshot of a recent text message with one client saying exactly that:

testimonial

And these kinds of results aren’t unusual for our recruiting spots.

What’s In YOUR Recruiting Ads?

Yes, a well-done, mass media recruiting spot can powerfully attract the right employees to your company,But when written properly, a recruiting ad can also attract customers to you even more powerfully. And that’s amazing!More importantly, if your recruitment spots aren’t being done like this, then your regular branding spots are probably falling short as well. Because one is just a more extreme version of the other. If you find that idea a point of concern (or an opportunity for improvement), you might consider hiring us.

(Workplace)
(Talent Acquisition)
(Recruitment)
(Team Growth)
(Employer)
(Employees)
(Successful Companies)
(Core Values)
(Value Proposition)
(Human Resource)
Jeff Sexton
Jeff Sexton

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