OUR APPROACH
By interpreting insights gathered from focus groups with Social Workers and attending ‘values’ sessions with employees, we gained a deep understanding of the service’s rapidly changing culture.
We also held a workshop with key internal stakeholders to determine audience segmentation, messaging, brand personality and tone of voice.
There was no doubt that the service had a strong vision, a clear strategy and had implemented significant change.
They now required a strong commitment from those they were looking to join them to help achieve their ambitions. This inspired the creative concept: “We Will. Will You?”.
Once the creative expression of the employer brand was agreed, we moved quickly into action.
Our first priority was to develop an integrated campaign plan for the Deputy Director role. This involved a short burst of activity over three weeks, which we optimised halfway through. We also created a landing page especially for the role.
Building on our momentum, we extended the employer brand and its assets, applying it across all recruitment communications.
The visual style was broadened to reflect the service’s values, and the campaign was developed to work for diverse, role-specific audiences. From here, we created a careers site − developing strategy, design, content and copy in partnership with an in-house build team. This included a video animation that brought their Employee Value Proposition to life.
Not least, we developed an integrated campaign plan and created all the elements needed to activate it.
Our plan was optimised based on what we had learned so far, and contrary to the sector’s conventional thinking, we opted for an online−only approach. This cut their media spend by roughly half.
