Your Company Is Bleeding Top Talent Because Your Employer Brand Is Sending The Wrong Message

The painful truth: Your careers page, job descriptions, and social posts are telling three completely different stories.

I want mine!
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This misalignment isn't just embarrassing.
It's costing you the exact talent you desperately need to hire.

Introducing: The Employer Brand Intelligence Report

Not another pretty PDF that collects dust. Real, actionable intelligence that transforms how candidates see you.

I'll dissect your entire recruiting ecosystem – from careers pages to recruiter conversations – and hand you the unfiltered truth about what you're really telling candidates (and why they're choosing your competitors instead).

What This Intelligence Report Exposes:

👉 Your True Market Position

You'll see exactly where you stand in the market quadrant (Innovation-Global, Stability, Specialization) with evidence-based competitive differentiation against both traditional security vendors and tech giants.

👉 What Candidates Think Your Pillars Are

See which are the 5-6 key themes that consistently emerge across all your recruiting channels, backed by verbatim examples from your own materials.

👉 Audience Alignment Gap

A detailed analysis of who your content naturally appeals to versus your critical hiring needs, with psychographic characteristics and experience-level targeting gaps.

👉 Channel-By-Channel Analysis

A comprehensive review of your career site architecture, social media content strategy, job description patterns, and communication consistency across touchpoints.

👉 Strategic Enhancement Roadmap

Not vague suggestions but prioritized improvements with specific implementation guidance for:

This Report Is For You If:

"This Analysis Revealed Things We'd Never Have Seen Ourselves"

The companies who've used these reports discovered:

How Talent Acquisition pros are reacting to their own report:

HOLY MOLY

HOLY MOLY
Talent Acquisition Partner
Worthwhile exercise for those looking to better understand the specifics of your current value proposition, in-market.
Head of Talent Acquisition
I love how you have everything laid out, its very straight forward and makes sense.
Employer Brand Manager
This resonates with what we are seeing, and having it pulled together like this was super informative. Worth the investment!
Director, Employer Brand
This report offered us valuable insights into how we show up across recruiting touchpoints, ensuring we promote a clear and consistent employer brand. The real meat was your reco's which were definitely on point. This is absolutely worth it.
Talent acquisition leader
This is killer, especially as a one-woman-show. This is a really good framework / gut check for how we're showing up, where we're showing up, what keeps being highlighted and where I can move the needle. It's doing the work I need to do ahead of building our new careers site, for example.
Talent Attraction and Engagement Leader
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[It gave] my company the insights it needs to attract and retain top candidates in today's competitive talent marketIt's filled with valuable insights. I especially liked: your sections on EVP and positioning. It was insightful reading your report because I think that most companies struggle to define these ideas internally for themselves due to a clear bias.
Global Employer Brand Leader

Three Levels of Intelligence:

1. Employer Brand Snapshot Report | $1,500
The fastest path to understanding what candidates actually see.
This focused 15-20 page report analyzes your careers site, culture pages, corporate LinkedIn, recruiter activity, and job postings to reveal:
🚒 What you're unintentionally communicating
🚒 Hidden strengths you're not leveraging
🚒 Why you're attracting the wrong candidates
🚒 Immediate actions to fix critical messaging problems

2. EVP Alignment Assessment | $3,000
Is your Employee Value Proposition actually reaching candidates?
🧞 Everything in the Snapshot, plus:
🧞 Gap analysis between your stated EVP and what's actually coming through
🧞 Channel-by-channel breakdown of where your EVP is getting lost
🧞 Specific guidance to strengthen EVP communication in each recruiting touchpoint
🧞 EVP resonance scoring with different talent segments

3. Competitive Analysis Report | $5,500
Are you standing out or blending in?
Your recruiting materials compared against 8 competitors of your choosing:
🦄 Side-by-side messaging comparison showing exactly where you sound like everyone else
🦄 Competitive differentiation map revealing your unique market position
🦄 Opportunity analysis highlighting untapped differentiators
🦄 Detailed playbook for outmaneuvering competitors for the same talent

The ROI Is Clear and Immediate:

When your employer brand messaging is aligned and powerful, you'll see:

Stop Guessing What Your Employer Brand Is Saying.
Know Exactly What Candidates Hear, And How To Fix It.

"Most companies think they're projecting a unique employer brand, but 90% are saying the exact same things. This report exposes the truth about what candidates actually hear." – James Ellis

Let's get you your edge.

Thank you! Your request has been received.

I'll email you in the next 48 hours with a link for payment and any questions I might need answered to complete the report.

If you have any issues, email me directly at James@EmployerBrandLabs,com
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Stop guessing what your employer brand is saying. Know exactly what candidates hear—and how to change it.

Got questions? Let's talk about it.

Hi. I'm James Ellis.

With over a decade of experience building employer brands and EVPs for companies like Groupon, Roku, Webflow, Recursion, ASICS, TradeShift, Telecare and others, I specialize in helping businesses that can’t afford to waste time or money. My focus? Creating employer brands that don’t just attract talent, they drive business growth.

Employer Brand Labs, LLC

EBL is dedicated to bringing the power and value of employer branding to every single company, regardless of size, industry, or region.

You can be an employer not just of "choice," but of desire.

If you're ready to start attracting great talent to you instead of chasing it, reach out.
Contact:
James Ellis [LinkedIn]
[employerbrandnerd@gmail.com]
421 W Melrose St
Chicago, IL 60657