Michael Specht

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Are your offer letters keepsakes?

October 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Branding, Recruitment · 2,485 views

Something I get asked a lot is “How does social media impact the HR department?”

There are lots of ways, including areas that crosses into the recruiting; attraction, branding, onboarding and closing the deal.

Do your offer letters engage future employees like this?

All kidding aside, any company that can give this much attention to detail just in their HR paperwork should be fun to work for.  I am looking forward to this new adventure.

How about something someone would never throw out?

I don’t think I’ll ever throw this out. It’s a keepsake that reminds me of the major move I made from Toronto to San Francisco and all the sacrifices made and opportunities gained.

Or make your experienced hire feel “like a kid on Christmas morning”?

Enter the Apple Job Offer.
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(Via Glyph)

These are the feeling expressed by Glyph about his current Apple job offer and Justin Reid’s historical offer.

Just imagine how engaged your new employees will be if they feel proud enough to photograph your paperwork and describe the “tension on the hinge of the folder is perfect: not too tense, not too loose”! Let’s not over look the complete alignment of the above offer packages to the corporate culture of Apple.

Unfortunately onboarding processes are a frequently overlooked part of both recruitment and HR processes.

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Employee branding isn’t just a web thing. // Oct 6, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    [...] Michael Specht, an Australian HR expert, has picked up on something interesting. He does that regularly.  Read the post here. [...]

  • 2 anu // Oct 11, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    What does this have to do with social media ?

  • 3 Michael Specht // Oct 11, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Anu, I made not have made my point clearly enough and the posts have now been removed. However more indicating that in a social media world it is easy for people to see into your organisations. Because of this making even the most mundane things, such as an offer letter, exciting might get you coverage.

    Thanks for commenting.

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