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The New Dictionary of Hiring

Talent Demand Creation

/TAL-UHNT DI-MAND KREE-AY-SHUHN/
  NOUN

Talent Demand Creation is building genuine interest in working for a company before anyone is asked to apply.

MEANING

Most recruiting systems are built to capture demand from people who are already prepared to consider changing jobs. Employer brand has a chance to do something earlier: make someone interested who wasn't interested before.

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If the first time scarce talent hears a good reason to work for you is the day a vacancy opens, you've left a lot of influence unused. Give them something worth noticing now, while the next hard-to-fill job is still a line in a planning document.

Defined by:
James Ellis,
Employer Brand Labs
Category:
Employer Brand
The New Dictionary of Hiring card: Talent Demand Creation, noun. Building genuine interest in working for a company before anyone is asked to apply. Abstract iridescent glass shape on a white background.

MAKE THE CHANGE

Instead of:
Candidate attraction that begins with an open job.
Ask:
How are we making future candidates interested before we need anything from them?

EXAMPLE

A person who wasn't job hunting hears a compelling story about a company's work, follows it for months and later accepts a recruiter's invitation to talk. Interest began long before the requisition.

HOW TO USE IT

Choose priority future talent markets and publish credible, useful reasons to pay attention now. Keep showing up before there is a job to sell, then track how interest develops.

SAY IT TO LEADERSHIP

Waiting until a job opens to create interest is making recruiting do the hardest work at the worst possible moment. We can start earning that interest now.

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