The Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen

In today's Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast episode, you learn about social recruiting which is different to recruiting on social media. And, you'll also learn why it's time to move from simply recruiting on social media to social recruiting. My name is Susanna Rantanen, and my employer branding agency Emine has been recognised as one of the Top 10 European Employer Branding Agencies. We w...

Corporate employer brand influencers, internal employer brand influencers and talent ambassadors. They all mean the same thing, and we all want to collaborate with them for the same reason: getting business advantage from employees who are actively engaging, networking and creating content on their social media. In today's Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast episode, we will discuss how you c...

Copywriting is one of the most important marketing tools to connect with your target audience and convert them into customers, such as job seekers, candidates and future employees. However, the process of creating effective copy can be time-consuming and requires a lot of effort. As technology continues to evolve, marketing AI has become an indispensable tool for copywriters. In today's Building a...

According to a recent study by Loom, a video app company, bad communication costs your company a whopping $21B a week. Communication is a funny thing. Just because we learn to speak as kids don't automatically make us good communicators. In today's Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast episode, we talk about communication. And not just any communication but bad communication and how to prevent...

In today's episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast, we talk about how to work with target audiences in talent marketing or HR marketing, if you prefer using that term. Targeting your marketing, especially for employer branding, continues to be somewhat troublesome for many HR and employer branding professionals. ✨ Who should be included in your target audiences? ✨ Why being speci...

Do you know what are the 5️⃣ (five) things you're not doing for optimal growth and reach on LinkedIn? In this week's episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast, we talk about using LinkedIn content to grow your reach and build a community that helps you advance your business and career goals. Get from this episode: 👉 8 reasons to use LinkedIn Content for business and professional gro...

Facebook Professional Mode is a recent Facebook feature for professional content creators.  It is targeted at those users who want to use Facebook for professional purposes but prefer not to make their more personal posts visible to everyone. In this week's  Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast episode, I'll tell you about this new Facebook feature that I switched on for my professional conten...

What if you had a simple framework to implement and follow for building a modern employer brand for your organisation? What if you could remove the stress and anxiety of not knowing exactly what needs to be done to achieve your desired employer brand perceptions and start building a talent pool from brand followers to advocates and from advocates to recruitment leads? What if I could give you this...

LinkedIn just published The Future of Recruiting 2023 report with 17 predictions of what world looks like for those working in recruiting and talent acquisition. In this episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast, I'm taking you through these 17 predictions. Do you want to download the report? Go here to download it: https://bit.ly/432gDQs 💟 Find me @‌rantanensusanna on Instagram, Pi...

We all know how difficult and gut-wrenching talent acquisition can be. The pain of not knowing where to find potential applicants or are you actually going to get anyone to apply can be extremely stressful. What strikes me off is that hardly anyone working in talent acquisition seems to realize that there is actually one specific area where you have a huge frequently unused opportunity to impact t...

What is the secret to creating marketing content your audience wants? Because: "Not everything that happens at your company is newsworthy", says Ann Handley, a marketing and business writing expert. The thing is: ☝️ Anyone can post anything online. ❌ But everyone doesn't need to post everything online. 🆘 Because no one wants to see everything posted online. In this episode of the Building a Mode...

Do you use Instagram Highlights at all? Or on your personal Instagram profile or on the company profile? Whether you use them or not, I believe this episode is going to add great value to your Instagram marketing efforts. My name is Susanna Rantanen and I welcome you back to the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast!  In this episode, you'll learn about Instagram Highlights and how to leverage...

In this week's episode I share with you four basic SEO tactics for content creators on TikTok. SEO on TikTok is the new thing for social media content creators. Adapting to SEO will help boost your reach on this platform in 2023 and beyond.  If you want to grow your talent or client audience on social media, your most important goal is to grow your reach. Reach is obligatory to get your content in...

Instagram SEO, search engine optimization for your Instagram posts, is one of the latest developments in social media content creation. In this episode, you'll learn about Instagram SEO and why that matters to you as a content creator on Instagram. You want to learn about Instagram SEO because, in 2023 and beyond, it will help boost your visibility and reach on this platform. If you want to grow y...

High-quality content is far more important than the quantity of content shared with your audiences. If you don't have a lot of time to invest in content creation, invest more time in the quality and simply post less. In this episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast, we talk about high-quality content, and I share eight tips to increase the quality of the content you produce and shar...

A headline is the first impression you get when you give that content a nanosecond of your precious time. When you select and copywrite your headline, think about the first impression you need it to create in the audience you want to capture. This is more important than you may imagine because, quite literally, the headline means success or failure. In this episode of the Building a Modern Employe...

As someone who uses written or spoken words to inform and impact your talent target audiences, sharpening your copywriting and content marketing skills is an important development area. I've said this before, no amount of marketing budget will succeed in getting your audiences to act on your talent marketing messages if your messaging fails.  In this episode, we will focus on my favourite area of...

What social media trends 2023 should we go for in talent marketing this year? Each year I go through the social media trend analysis' from various trustworthy sources and curate my findings for us talent marketers working in employer branding and recruitment marketing with employees and job seekers as our target audiences. It's time to learn about the key social media predictions for 2023! In this...

Short-form video content is rising rapidly in popularity. There are probably quite a few reasons, but the most obvious ones are the huge amount of content available and the little time we have [as viewers] to consume it all. Videos can be much more engaging than written text and impact us better on an emotional level than pictures. In this week's episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand pod...

Instagram can be an excellent platform for recruiters if you are interested in advancing your career and success as a recruiter. You want to think about how to use this platform to brand yourself as a recruiter worth following and paying attention to instead of using it to search for potential candidates. This change in your mindset is required when you want to drive your own career and elevate yo...

Have you ever considered using TikTok for recruiting? The good thing about being a recruiter is that you can be your own media when reaching out to those talents you desire to hire. I don't see recruiters using this opportunity enough. Yet, I know you guys struggle with your employer's or client's willingness to invest in marketing and employer branding to help get those talents. You probably agre...

How well do you utilize social media to build a position as a trusted and followed recruitment professional? The most common way recruiters use social media is to post recruitment marketing messages on behalf of a client or your employer's account. But what about your personal brand as the recruiter? Many recruiters struggle to hire for unknown companies that lack employer brand appeal. The obviou...

TikTok is growing massively and is definitely a social media platform useful for us talent marketers to discover and become familiar with. I haven't been on TikTok yet for too long, but I've used this time productively to learn more about it, analyze what type of content gets attention and how businesses can benefit from TikTok. I'm ready to share with you what I have learned! In this episode of t...

#122 TikTok for recruitment marketing and talent acquisition by Susanna Rantanen

TikTok's global growth has been massive; there is no way to deny that. But is TikTok something we should consider in talent marketing? Is it replacing Instagram? In this episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast, I talk about TikTok vs Instagram for talent marketing professionals. What are the key differences between these two platforms, and what does this mean for employer branding...