James Ellis | SpeakerHub

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Bio

James Ellis is an employer brand consultant and the host of The Talent Cast, a weekly deep-dive into the mechanics and theory of recruitment marketing and employer branding. He has worked with Target, SavATree, Aprilaire, QuEST Global, and many others to attract better talent faster. Most recently, he transformed Groupon's employer brand, reaching Hired's list of strongest employer brands in Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.

Current position (3)

Consultant

Proactive Talent

Global Head of Employer Brand

Groupon

VP of Employer Brand Activation

TMP Worldwide

Degrees (1)

Political Science

University of Texas at Austin

1990 to 1995

Presentations

Presentations (3)

The Transformational Employer Brand

If you think you can’t compete for great with those massive, sexy and obvious companies, you’re wrong. A strong, authentic employer brand opens a whole new tool set of resources inside your company you can use to find and attract great people. That is, a well-understood and articulated employer brand makes recruiters jobs easier. But a strong employer brand doesn’t happen by accident. It requires an understanding of your positioning, what you offer employees, and a willingness to communicate beyond traditional channels. In this keynote, you’ll learn what an employer brand really is and how you can build it from the ground up to transform your talent situation.

The $400 Employer Brand: Real World Lessons from a Fortune 1000 Company

Think employer branding requires a capital campaign or a complete overhaul of your budget? Nope! You can make meaningful impact in your brand that recruiters, hiring managers and execs can feel by being smart. Don’t believe me? Take lessons from the 100% true story of how one Fortune 1000 company with seven years negative press, low ratings and virtually no resources turned things around without going broke.

Recruiting Isn’t Strategic. But Hiring Is.

Great recruiting starts with great HR and is fostered by great partnerships with the business and leadership. But they aren’t burdened by recruiting expectations. That’s a recruiter’s job, right? Consequently, teams aren’t aligned together to find and hire great talent, and recruiters are left holding the bag.

What would happen if we could step back, ignore all the rules that have guided recruiting for the last 50 years and reinvent a more strategic hiring process. By seeing the complete picture and applying the secret metric that can align the whole business to hiring great talent, recruiting can build stronger partnerships to find better hires faster and establish a truly strategic recruiting process.