#firmday manchester 27 sept 13 adding value through community management - serge sergiou, smrs ltd
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The FIRM
September 2013
Like. Follow. Connect. Recruit.Adding value through community management.
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150%
Source: Dun & Bradstreet 2012
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Community management is relevant to us all
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What is community
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Community is
NOT...
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LIN
KED
IN
MY SPACE
BLOGS SOCIAL MEDIA
FACE BOOK
RSS
PROFILES
VIDEOS
PODCASTS
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Community
IS...
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DISCUSSIONSPEOPLEEMERGENT
SUPP
ORT
PASSION MISSIONOR
GAN
IC
AFFINITY
IDEAS
PURPOSEVOICESN
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EMPATHYAL
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TAFFINITY
DISCUSSIONSEMPATHYPASSION AFFINITY
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Community A group of people with unique shared
values, behaviours and artifacts
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Things that define community
1. A common interest or context
2. A sense of shared purpose and fate
3. A common set of needs
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Why use community
1. Information travels faster
2. Shared ownership and commitment
3. Maximize investments
4. Reduce costs
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Business goals determine ideal size for a community
ONLINE COMMUNITIES
GROUPS
COMMUNITIES
NETWORKS
SIZE
DENSITY OF RELATIONSHIP
COLLABORATION ADVOCACY EXPERTISE LOCATION AWARENESS
INNOVATION Q & A
COMPLEXITY OF DESIRED OUTCOME
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Social media management and community management are not the same
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
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Communities mature and change
TIME
IMPA
CT
BEHAVIOURCHANGE
PULL
GROWTH
SATURATION
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What is community management
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Community management is the discipline of ensuring productive communities
Responsibilities• Define scope, ideal outcomes and boundaries
• Ensure participants receive more value than they contribute
• Promote, encourage and reward productive behaviours
• Discourage and limit destructive behaviours
• Facilitate constructive disagreement and conflict
• Advocate for the community and its members
• Monitor, measure and report
• Marshall internal advocates, resources and support
• Manage tools and member experience
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The iceberg effect of community management
Visible• Managing Content (publishing, curating, tagging)
Updates Blog Posts ebooks & white papers Pictures Videos Podcasts
• Managing Events
• Welcoming new members
• Participating in conversation
• Reaching out to 3rd party influencers, partners and media.
• Communicating changes to policies, tools, programming etc
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The iceberg effect of community management
Behind the scenes• Understanding members
• Back-channeling with members to encourage participation
• Building relationships with key members
• Taking issues off line
• Working with internal advocates to plan mutually beneficial programmes
• Program planning
• Collaborating internally
• Managing technology issues
• Communicating value and benefits of community internally
• Measuring & monitoring progress
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What are the risks of not having community
management?
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Ghost town
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Land of 1,000 flowers
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Drama central
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A circling storm
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A clique
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Pile of tools
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Money to burn
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What makes a good community manager?
Skills• Communication
• Ability to match brand’s personality
• Understanding of human behaviour/motivations
• Relationship building
• Conflict resolution
• Project management
• Technology knowledge
Attributes• Love of people
• Judgement
• Tempered enthusiasm
• Empathy
• Adaptability
• Self awareness
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Link in to a resourcing strategy?
• Hiring Objectives
• Quality Candidates
• Greater Efficiency
• Lower Costs
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How do you build a thriving community
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Observe your audience
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Keep a regular schedule
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Be welcoming
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Provide a guide
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Be valuable
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Be a connector
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Always have something interesting to say
@*%$:-)
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Have Rules
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Lead From the Back
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Encourage your fans
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Be prepared to ride the storm
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Don’t ignore
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Be multi-modal
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Protect your herd
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Community management within recruitment
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Community centric recruitment
Employees
Talent
Alumni
Graduates
Other
Emplo
yee Referral Talent pipeliningGraduate engagementAlumni c
ommu
nity
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Community referral - ROI
Responsibilities• Referrals are No. 1 Source of Hire in US (30% - 60% of hires)
• Referral hires are 17% more productive
• Referral hires are 20% faster to hire
• Referral hires have 18% better retention
• Referrals are most productive source of diversity
• Consistency & visibility across entire organisation
Improve productivity Reduced costs per-hire Retention
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Talent pipelining – ROI
• Quality rather than quantity
• Long term, sustainable relationships
• Harder to find niche roles
• Relationships can be maintained with candidates from other campaigns
• Far better candidate experience
• Branded candidate experience
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Case study – Eversheds Law Firm
Winner: ‘The Lawyer’ ‘most innovative recruitment’ award.
• 3,000 employees in 10 countries
• Referrals, talent pipelines, graduates, alumni communities
• Saved over £200,000 in 12 months
• 52% of referred applicants given interviews
• 1 out of 4 referred applicants hired
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Case study – London 2012 (LOCOG)
• Processed over 200,000 applications and made 8,300 hires
• Used CM to target the unemployed and the young
• Apps used to showcase jobs and help answer questions
• Four large engagement events and monthly newsletters used to keep new recruits aware of what was expected of them as the games got closer
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Examples of community management
have launched Facebook groups to increase the rate of job referrals for potential candidates
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Examples of community management
• Each jobs page has been equipped with social sharing buttons for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
• Recruiters become part of the wider employment conversation and stimulate conversations about working for the company, its brands and the industry.
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Examples of community management
• Collected over 850 technology career enquiries at recent Campus Party event in O2 arena
• Will use this community talent pool and employee referrals to pilot Community Management strategy
• Identify innovators who can help shape company’s transition from telecommunications to technology
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Companies using community management
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Key take aways
1. Community Management within Recruitment remains a minority activity
2. It’s not an alternative to current hiring strategy it is an evolution
3. It can help maximize investments
4. Reduce costs
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Let’s continue the debate
1. SMRS is currently undertaking quantitative research into how community management is being deployed within recruitment
2. Looking for participants to help us with the qualitative research phase
3. Looking to create a UK centric community management business model we can share with you at future meetings
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Any Questions?
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Thank you.Serge Sergiou | Head of Online | [email protected]
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AcknowledgementsThis presentation was inspired by The Community Round Table paper -
“Community Management Fundamentals” - April 2012