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Growth Puzzle

INVESTMENT

TEAM

BIZ MODEL

CUSTOMER

PRODUCT

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What is NLP (Campaigns)?

Recruiter?

Staffing?

RA Campaign Strategy?

No! We don’t use temps. We are direct hire.

Yes! Thinking like an ad agency to cost-effectively navigate the hiring market.

No! We are not simply another contingency services firm.

NLP is OBSESSED with reducing friction in hiring employees!!!

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Keep growth consistent across all five to reach a mainstream market.

This deck helps us put the puzzle together for NLP’s Recruitment Campaign solution.

Team

Biz Model

Customer

Product

Investment

Consistent Growth

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Team

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See the Work

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See the People

INSIDE THE ORGANIZATION

OUT IN THE MARKETPLACE

4 ST | Innovating

Significance

7 EQ | Selling

Fulfillment

2 NT | Connecting

Affirmation

5 ST | Ideating

Competence

3 EQ | Decision-Making

Success

6 NT | Serving

Support

OPERATIONAL ZONE

OPPORTUNITY ZONE

VALUE CREATION ZONE

1 PD | Building

Integrity

8 PD | Managing

Control

9 PD | Delivering

Stability

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- OUT FRONT

OTHERS

+ SCATTERED

REBEL

THEORY

IMPACT

AESTHETIC

SERVICE

PEOPLE

NOW

Scott Holsman

Intellectual Diversity, changing the way you look at teams

2 NT Connecting

Steph Yarborough

9 PD Delivering

Lawrence Andre

1 PD Building

Justice Daniel

2 NT Connecting

Tammy Rhodes

3 EQ Decision-Making

Chris Gilchrist

3 EQ Decision-Making

NL People

IN PACK

OTHERS

ORDERED

REBEL

THEORY

IMPACT

UTILITY

NOW

- OUT FRONT

ALONE

SCATTERED

+ PROCESS

THEORY

AESTHETIC

NOW

FUTURE

OUT FRONT

OTHERS

+ SCATTERED

REBEL

AESTHETIC

SERVICE

FUTURE

OUT FRONT

OTHERS

SCATTERED

REBEL

RECOGNITION

REWARD

AESTHETIC

PEOPLE

OUT FRONT

OTHERS

SCATTERED

REBEL

RECOGNITION

REWARD

PEOPLE

NOW

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C

C

C

C

C

D

D

C

C

C

C

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C

C

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C

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Behaviors

Motivators

Cognition

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Sales Rep

(7 EQ)

Acct Mgr

(2 NT)

Coordinator �(9 PD 6 NT)

Specialist �(9 PD 6 NT)

Prospect (7 EQ)

Relationship (2 NT)

Environmental Scan (2 NT)

Write Ad (2 NT)

Post (9 PD)

Job Boards (9 PD)

Fits On Paper (6 NT)

IAQ (6 NT)

Hand-Off (6 NT)

RDB (9 PD)

Estimating (9 PD)

Monitoring (9 PD)

Tuning (9 PD)

Work → Roles

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New Campaign Customer Flow �(see the work)

Environment Scan

Job Ad

Posting

  • Research EVP on client sites

  • Discovery with hiring manager (personality, �Year 1)

  • Write job ad

  • Communicate with clients to confirm advertising approach
  • Hiring Company Branding

  • Posting job ads out of CEIPAL to CB,Zip and then reviewing

  • Manually posting on Indeed and setting up promotional budget

  • Comparison Shopping as a job seeker

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New Campaign Customer Flow �(see the people)

Sales Rep

Account Manager

Campaign Coordinator

NLP’s Promise

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Search Team

Sourcing

Recruiting

Matchmaking

Talking to Hiring Managers

Talking to Candidates

Where is the fit?

Prospecting

Reading Resumes

What aren’t they saying?

What are they looking for?

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Performance-Based Hiring Interviews

Sourcer

Recruiter

Hiring Manager

An initial touchpoint to establish interest, availability, and qualifications

This touchpoint is the linchpin of performance-based hiring. A skilled recruiter knows how to have these exploratory career conversation, simultaneously identifying the strongest candidates AND recruiting them into the job. The recruiter establishes the relationship that will hold the candidate’s attention and be the basis for making the hire.

If the recruiter does their job, then this interview is free to focus on the candidate’s problem-solving skills in context of the performance needed in the job.

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Biz Model

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That’s a Good Idea!

from Seth Godin 6/20/2020

And then what happens?

Repeat the question 100 times. Because after every good idea, there are at least 100 steps of iteration, learning, adjustment, innovation, and effort.

We put a lot of pressure on the idea to be perfect because it distracts us from the hundred steps. Nearly every organization is built around an idea that wasn’t original or perfect.

The effort and investment and evolution made the difference.

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Competitive Awareness

In 1997, The Innovators Dilemma outlined four ways companies compete for customers.

Innovation – If you have a product that no one else can match, then you get the market to yourself until others can develop a similar feature set

Reliability – If others offer what you do but yours is distinctively better, then customers will buy from you over the competition

Convenience – If others have the same reliability but buying from you is distinctively easier, then customers will buy from you over the competition

Price – At this point you are in an established mainstream market that ultimately becomes a race to the bottom based on the lowest margin a competitor will accept

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Market Adoption Lifecycle

Competitive Advantage

In 1991, Crossing the Chasm outlined a curve showing how innovation moves through the marketplace

Complete Product

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Market Awareness

In 1991, Crossing the Chasm described how to take a disruptive product into the market

Innovators – Start here. These enthusiasts want to test the latest tech to see if it works. Give them access to the most knowledgeable staff and let them use the tech for free.

Early Adopters – Next, these buyers want a competitive advantage. Don’t market to them. They will find you via their innovator network and take a big risk for a big reward. They aren’t price conscious but are notoriously hard to please. Success comes when you deliver a project for the early adopter AND productize your learnings for the mainstream market.

Mainstream – They will not buy until you offer a whole product, including a robust feature set, market validation, and 3rd party support options.

Laggard – They only abandon their existing alternative when it is no longer available.

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Campaign Platform for HR Directors

6 Cost Structure

Our variable costs

Campaign Team Time

Job Board Advertising

5 Revenue

Our price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + their options to buy from a Replacement vendor

$4,000/month

2 Need

What needs to get done?

I have a position that always has openings

Alternatives

Who they say “no” to

Organic Applicants

Staffing Firm

Internal Recruiter

3 Offer

Our key features

NLP Campaign

  • Campaign Coordinator
  • Environmental Scan
  • Job Ad
  • Posting Strategy
  • Applicant Filtering via FitOnPaper & IAQ
  • Database Search

7 Key Metric

Success = Deliver for 3 hiring companies for 1yr and both NLP & HC enjoy the relationship

Value = 80% satisfied with the hiring process + 40% will not hire without using NLP Campaigns

4 Customer Values

What are we promising?

Why are they choosing us?

My current solution isn’t finding enough applicants

We manage the boards

We broaden exposure

We filter the applicants

SO THAT YOU can interview & hire!!!���High-Level Concept

A way to understand us

Hiring = Sales

Sales Organization (Marketing + Advertising + Lead Qualification + Closing)

9 Competitive Advantage

Why they choose us

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Innovative�(RA Campaign Strategy)

Reliable

Convenient

Price

8 Channels

Our top lead sources

JobFeed

LinkedIn

Swordfish

1 Customer

Who is buying?

HR Directors who recognize their department is under pressure because positions are open and existing efforts aren’t filling the applicant pipeline

Mindset

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

Early Adopter

Mainstream

PRODUCT

MARKET

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6 Cost Structure

Our variable costs

Campaign Team Time

Job Board Advertising

5 Revenue

Our price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + their options to buy from a Replacement vendor

$1,500/easy

$3,500/mid

2 Need

What needs to get done?

We are wasting too much time on hiring

Alternatives

Who they say “no” to

Organic Applicants

HR Consultant

Contingency Recruiter

3 Offer

Our key features

NLP Campaign

  • Campaign Coordinator
  • Environmental Scan
  • Job Ad
  • Posting Strategy
  • Applicant Filtering via FitOnPaper & IAQ
  • Database Search

7 Key Metric

Success = Deliver for 3 biz owners for 1yr and both NLP & BO enjoy the relationship

Value = 80% satisfied with the hiring process + 40% will not hire without using NLP Campaigns

4 Customer Values

What are we promising?

Why are they choosing us?

My current solution isn’t finding enough applicants

We manage the boards

We broaden exposure

We filter the applicants

SO THAT YOU can interview & hire!!!���High-Level Concept

A way to understand us

Hiring = Sales

Sales Organization (Marketing + Advertising + Lead Qualification + Closing)

9 Competitive Advantage

Why they choose us

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Innovative�(RA Campaign Strategy)

Reliable

Convenient

Price

8 Channels

Our top lead sources

JobFeed

LinkedIn

Swordfish

1 Customer

Who is buying?

Business Owners big enough to have an HR Consultant (20+ employees), have hired at least 4 people in the past year, and have posted at least once on the boards

Mindset

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

Early Adopter

Mainstream

PRODUCT

MARKET

Campaign Platform for Business Owners

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Campaign Search Services for Hiring Companies

6 Cost Structure

Our variable costs

Recruiting Team Time

Job Board Advertising

5 Revenue (price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + options to buy from a Replacement vendor)

$6,500 Search Campaign (30 days no contingency)

--or--

$1,500 advertising fee + $10,000 placement fee

--or--

20% of first year salary (exclusivity+guarantee)

2 Need

What needs to get done?

I have a job opening for a strategic position or hard-to-find person and need to find ONE PERSON to fill it

Alternatives

Who they say “no” to

External Recruiter

Internal Recruiter

DIY Job Boards

3 Offer

Our key features

NLP Search

  • Recruiter
  • Environmental Scan
  • Job Ad
  • Candidate Matching
  • Candidate Presentation

7 Key Metric

Success =

Value =

4 Customer Values

What are we promising?

Why are they choosing us?

My current solution isn’t finding qualified candidates

We advertise your job

We search for TEPs

We present the candidates

SO THAT YOU can interview & hire!!!���High-Level Concept

A way to understand us

Hiring = Sales

Sales Organization (Marketing + Advertising + Lead Qualification + Closing)

9 Competitive Advantage

Why they choose us

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Innovative �(RA Campaign Strategy)

Reliable

Convenient

Price

8 Channels

Our top lead sources

JobFeed

LinkedIn

Swordfish

1 Customer

Who is buying?

A hiring company that needs a senior position filled (>$75k and 10+ years experience)

Mindset

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

Early Adopter

Mainstream

PRODUCT

MARKET

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Customer Discovery

Your biz model is full of hunches. The biz model canvas is a starting point to capture your most important assumptions so that you can get out of the building and learn from the market.

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Why Customer Discovery

from Seth Godin 1/19/2021

Your initial assumptions won’t work. People don’t line up. You can put in the energy to have your pitch get heard, but the early ones fall flat. It’s only as you tune into the market that you begin to resonate.

And you will get stuck. The story you tell from the start is the one you considered right. You will blame the market for not understanding.

Your traction comes when your customers can get either status, affiliation, or convenience from your product. Status moves someone up in the estimation of their peers. Affiliation is “people like us do things like this.” And convenience is the hallmark of a semi-lazy decision–it’s just easier.

The idea began with making things better, but it gets traction when you connect it with one of these drivers.

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Emotionally Resonate Value Units

from Grant Gooding 10/12/2021

Generic Value Propositions are meaningless because they do not register emotionally. Buying is an emotional decision, and most organizations focus on the features & benefits instead of the customer’s emotional WHY. So, a generic idea like quality or customer service is commonly used by marketing & sales.

Generic: “We carry the highest quality products.”

Emotionally Resonate: “Our products have a defect rate of 1 per 10,000.”

Generic: “We are a trusted leader.”

Emotionally Resonate: “We use a transparent pricing model so you don’t need to trust me, we show you.”

Generic: “We pride ourselves on our customer service.”

Emotionally Resonate: “Someone will respond within 5 minutes.”

Now, the hard part…why do your customers buy from you?

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Tuning the Biz Model

Status (Innovation)

Convenience

Affiliation�(reliability)

Christianson →

Godin →

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Customer

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Market

Position

Sales Conversations

Repositioning your Company

Use the 8x10d methodology to change the game

Find a “sign” on Main Street that identifies the type of store you are

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Recruiting Budgets for Hiring Companies

US Online Recruiting in 2021 was

a $13b market and is growing 15% annually

Big 3 Existing Alternatives

Internal Recruiters (DIY)

External Recruiters (Contingency)

Job Boards

Emerging Innovation

Recruitment Marketing

Programmatic Advertising

AI Solutions

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Your Market Position �(in the eyes of the customer)

Retained Service Agreement �(outsourcing the work)

Talent Acquisition

New Leaves?

  • Recruitment Marketing
  • AI
  • Tech

Staffing

Temps

Gig Economy Freelancers

Contingency Recruiters�(source 3 candidates for 30% as needed)

Job Boards

(DIY)

Recruiting Employees

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Trends affecting Talent Acquisition

Labor Shortage

Faster Turnover

Increasing Wages

Simply not enough people to fill 10M jobs a month

Gig Economy & Great Resignation increase churn and thus increases # of openings each year

Since labor costs more, companies are seeking to reduce recruiting costs while also needing to hire more people each year

Take advantage of organic applicants first…

…and compliment with recruiting as needed

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These People Will Engage You

  • Has a problem
  • Aware of problem
  • Actively seeking solution
  • Attempted own solution
  • Dissatisfied with solution
  • Has budget for solution

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Supply & Demand Strategies

Surplus of Talent Strategy

Scarcity of Talent Strategy

Harder-to-fill jobs

Prequalifying Outstanding People

Exploratory Career Conversations

Recruiting the Strongest

* This is performance-based hiring

Easier-to-fill jobs

Cast a broad net

Quickly weed out the unqualified

Work the good people in the pipeline

* This is the classic hiring process

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from Indeed market research

It takes a lot of effort to hire someone!

Where does that time go?

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from Indeed market research

NLP wants to put time back in your day

so you can focus on your people

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Hiring with NLP Campaigns

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Hiring with �NLP Campaigns

Launching a recruitment campaign when you have a subscription to NLP’s platform

Meet with NLP Campaign Coordinator

Tell us the person you want and what success looks like in year 1

Day 1

Research Market

We determine who is competing for this person and find a winning angle for your recruitment campaign

Job Desc → Job Ad

No one reads instruction manuals (or job descriptions), so we create a job ad that attracts the person you want to hire

Post on Job Boards

We maintain subscriptions to several job boards and manage the advertising

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Hiring with �NLP Campaigns

Here’s how we work the applicant pipeline so that you get to the interviewable applicant first

Fits on Paper

Because quick apply makes it easy to submit your resume, most applicants are not qualified, and we need to clear them out

Week 1

NLP IAQ

For applicants who are a fit on paper, we engage via text, usually within the hour

Scheduling Interview

We plug the interviewable applicants immediately into your calendar

Interview & Hire

Hiring manager interviews and makes offer

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Internal �DIY

Recruitment Firms

Staffing Agencies

Innovation requires “changing the game”

X’ing out the Usual Suspects

We are trying to get to an “X” sales conversation, so who are we different from?

What stage are your prospects in with their current solution?

  1. Honeymoon
  2. Questioning
  3. Disillusionment

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Molding into a Story

  • Grab the audience’s attention by nailing their problem
  • Pique their interest with teaser facts supporting their enrollment
  • Spark their desire by showing that you know this terrain

Turn this into a sales conversation by prompting follow-up action

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Innovation Dead-Ends

We know more than the market and thus must educate instead of sell

We confuse the market with our product

We require behavior change to use our product

We assume our idea is so good that it will survive first contact with the market

We don't have a channel to our target customers

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Making a Promise

Most companies build a sales process to acquire customers� ...but that only works if you are selling into a proven, mainstream market!

Innovation biz models must sell to customer activation.

You are playing the PROMISE game: make one and deliver on it.

Until you do that reliably, your business will fail.

You will not retain customers. And they will not refer you to others.

NLP’s promise:

NLP will get you to the front of the line to interview & hire

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Qualifying Triangle

Hiring Company

Job

Market

What is the culture that applicants are plugging into?

What is the desirability of the job?

How hard will it be to find applicants?

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Matching sales questions to milestones

(typically in Rapport & Relevance)

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What They are Thinking:

    • Do I trust you?
    • What are the risks to my relationship capital?
    • How will this increase my relationship capital?
    • Will anyone be negatively affected/hurt?

How to Approach:

Develop trust

1.Direct Relationship

2.Triangle with a common trusted NT

3.Accenture approach of proving yourself

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Do:

    • Be empathetic
    • Show you know people are the key to success

Don’t:

    • Ask the Networker to risk too much political capital
    • Let them drive all of the conversation to be about you
    • Oversell

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Marketing & Sales Milestones�

1. Attention

2. Enrollment

3. Rapport

4. Relevance

5. Credibility

6. Certainty

Do I agree with you?

Are you interesting?

Why am I talking to you?

Campaign Strategists

How does it work?

Job Desc →

  • Environmental Scan
  • Job Ad
  • Posting Strategy
  • Filtering Applicant Pipeline
  • Analytics

Am I sure I want to buy?

Advertising Campaigns to get applicants into the interview

Marketing (market-focused)

Sales (thought-leadership)

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Outsource this!

(tons of burnout)

Onboarding

Development

Job Seeker Experience

Employee Experience

Features (pitfalls)

  • Environmental Scan (competitive landscape)
  • Job Desc → Job Ad (personality/traits)
  • Posting Strategy (job board experience)
  • Vetting (efficiency)
  • Passive Search (prospecting)

ALIGNMENT

Retention & Culture

People go to work for a company the job, but leave the manager

The Loyalty Shift

They are loyal to the work they do, not who they do it for

In a job seeker market, they expect concierge service

Who’s interviewing who?

Where do you want to invest your time?

The NLP Rebels…Breaking all the rules, AGAIN!

Obsessed with reducing the friction in hiring employees

Interviewing

Branding

Pipeline

Investment Manager of #1 Asset

Do this internally with your HR Resources

(less unemployment claims - trailing costs of separation & compliance tasks)

NLP

RECRUITMENT

CAMPAIGNS

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2 Decades of Job Advertising

Job Boards

2010

Classified Ads

2000

NLP Campaigns

2020

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How did we get here?

CSR

10 Lines

888 - 555 - 1122

Job Boards

30 Days

Classified Ads

1 Day

Printed Newspaper

$350 in 1999

Job Desc

Click to Apply

Job Board Post

$1,500�3 jobs

NLP Campaigns

<7 Days

Job Ad

Campaign Coordinator

1-2 Interviewable Applicants

Pipeline

$???/month

??? jobs

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NLP Opening

Them

Response

  1. Fully staffed�
  2. Good with current solution�
  3. What do you do?

They are testing our competence

Opening Call

Milestone: Relevance

Upfront contract? Yes!

Are you the person? Yes!

You are posting for _____.

I want to help you hire them.

  • Congrats! Why still on Indeed?

  • (Discovery - current solution)�Competing with NLP Campaign ReliabilityYeah, that’s what every one of our clients have told us. Until they weren’t. And this is the most unpredictable job market we’ve seen in 20yrs. So how long have you been using your current solution?

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NLP

Them

Starting the Sales Conversation

Milestone: Attention

Our advertising campaign gets you applicants to interview & hire

How does it work?

They are testing our competence

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Talking Features & Benefits

NLP

Them (competence)

NLP Campaign Strategy (subject matter expert)

Knockout Punch

Environmental scanning to assess the hiring landscape

What does that do?

We need to know the competition

Know who we are competing against.

Supply & Demand.

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Sales Prospecting - The Cold Call

What is my door opener? (Attention)

Can I write you a job ad?

How do I pull the prospect into my product? (Enrollment)

How do I agitate the prospect away from their status quo? (Rapport)

Are you getting the applicants you need?�Yes - Congrats for beating the odds! 90 Day follow-up?

No - Can I write you a job ad?

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Sales Prospecting - The Close

How much? (Relevance)

$1,500 (and then shut up)

What do I get? (Competence)

Who are you? (Certainty)

Founder Scott Holsman

3 Decades

Obsessed with reducing the friction in hiring

Can I write you a job ad?

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NLP

RECRUITMENT

CAMPAIGNS

NLPSEARCH

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

NLPRECRUIT

SEARCH

SEARCH

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Product

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Who is it for?

Hiring Companies Talent Acquisition

Interview

3

Vet

Applications

2

Generate

Applicants

1

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Pipeline�“Thinking like a sales rep”�Fits on Paper�IAQ

2

Job Seekers

“Thinking like an ad agency”

Job Desc → � Environmental Scan� Job Ad� Posting Strategy

1

NLP Campaign Funnel

Interviewing

You interview and hire

3

  • Optional Advertising

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What is it for?

Making life easier for thoughtful job seekers

to navigate job boards and find good jobs

at hiring companies who offer friendly interviewing

Campaign Coordinator

Recruiter

Performance-based hiring �for hard-to-find people

Advertising for easier-to-fill jobs

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$6500

$1500

ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN

(market intelligence)

JOB AD�(personality/traits)

FILTER APPLICANTS

(interested-available-qualified)

INVITE�(passive job seekers)

COMPONENTS

Advertise

Concierge

Service Levels

Hiring Company filling Open Positions

Thinking like an ad agency

Thinking like a sales rep

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Advertising Campaign P&L

Duration: 30 days

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$375

$283 Indeed ad buy

$68 Zip posting

$24 CB posting

$324 (8 hrs)�

Job Ad

Posting

Forwarding (__ applicants)

$300

$1,500 x 20% commission

Revenue

$1,500

Expense

$1,000

Profit

$500

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Concierge Campaign P&L

Duration: 30 days

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$375

$283 Indeed ad buy

$68 Zip posting

$24 CB posting

$1,170 (28 hrs)

Environmental Scan

Job Ad

Posting

+ IAQ (__ applicants)

+ RDB

$700

$3,500 x 20% commission

Revenue

$3,500

Expense

$2,245

Profit

$1,155

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starting at $36,000/year

ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN

(market intelligence)

JOB AD�(personality/traits)

FILTER APPLICANTS

(interested-available-qualified)

COMPONENTS

Subscription Pricing

The NLP Campaign Platform for Perpetual Hiring

INVITE�(passive job seekers)

Thinking like an ad agency

Thinking like a sales rep

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Campaign Subscription P&L

What is it for? (3-7 easy-to-mid jobs & 18 postings & 48 interviews → 18 hires)

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$1,882

$400 Zip (180 days)

$576 CB (24 slots)

$906 Indeed

$14,918 (373 hrs)�

Environmental Scans

Job Ads

Posting Budget

IAQ (3-12 applicants per post)

Tuning

$7,200

$36k x 20% commission

Revenue

$36,000

Expense

$24,000

Profit

$12,000

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NextPage Campaign Subscription P&L

What is it for? (8 easy-to-mid jobs & 20 postings & 48 interviews → 20 hires)

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$1,882

$400 Zip (180 days)

$576 CB (20 slots)

$906 Indeed

$14,918 (373 hrs)�

Environmental Scans

Job Ads

Posting

IAQ (3-12 applicants per post)

Tuning

$7,200

$36k x 20% commission

Revenue

$36,000

Expense

$24,000

Profit

$12,000

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PPT Campaign Platform P&L 2021

Annual Contract (6 job descriptions)

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

144 Hires

$6,300 (6 postings)

$3,696 Zip

$1,728 CB

??? Indeed

$44,100 (1,100 hrs)

(# of job descriptions)

Environmental Scans

Job Ads

Posting Budget

+ IAQ (3,690 applicants)

+ Tuning

$21,600

$108k x 20% commission

Revenue

$108,000

Expense

$72,000

Profit

$36,000

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PPT Campaign Platform P&L 2022

Annual Contract (6 jobs/119 employees & 816 interviews → 144 hires)

Annual Contract (5 jobs/97 employees & 270 interviews → 60 hires)

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

144 Hires

$6,300 (7 postings)

(# of postings)

$51 Zip

$24 CB

$61,000 (1,500 hrs)

(# of job descriptions)

Environmental Scan

Job Ad

Posting

+ IAQ (3,690 applicants vs 1,600)

+ RDB

+ Tuning

$28,800

$144k x 20% commission

Revenue

$144,000

Expense

$96,000

Profit

$48,000

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A Typical 30-Day Job Posting

For every 10 that apply...

10 applied!

5 are qualified!

2 schedule an interview!

...but 50% aren’t interested

...but another 50% don’t show

...but 50% aren’t qualified

So, 10 people applied and you interview 1 person.

The majority of jobs get reposted.

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A Typical NLP Campaign

Designed for a 2-Day turnaround on an easy-to-fill job

5-10 apply on Day 1

3-6 are a fit on paper

1-2 interview in Week 1

...but 50% aren’t interested

...and you fill the open position!

...but 50% aren’t qualified

Why? �

Because we focus on getting you to the “interviewable applicant” first, while others are trying to generate quantity and then over-thinking which one to interview

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Campaign Performance

Job Board Traffic�View-to-Apply ratio

# Applies

Spam Filter�# Experienced

# Intriguing

# I Can’t Tell

# Misfit

Scheduled

# IAQ Yes

# Rejected by Client

Interviews

#Hired

#No Showed

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Optional Advertising

Applicant Traffic�View to Click ratio

Resume Search

Indeed Ad Buy

Qualified Applicants� Fits on Paper

On the Sidelines

IAQ Calls

Applicant Ghosting

Your Interviews

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Advertising Strategy

Once performance is in place, how do we get similar results with a lower budget?

Are we satisfying the hiring company’s needs for interviewable applicants?

Efficiency

Campaign Strategy

Quality

Now with performance and budget in place, what else can we do to optimize the process for the campaign team?

We are the experts on job board advertising, so what would a campaign strategist do to serve our customers?

Finally, let’s not settle for acceptable results. Is there anything more we can do to get even better job seekers?

Performance

Budget

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Job Seeker User Experience

Understanding what it feels like to be a job seeker for the job you are advertising (job title, location, professional experience, education)

Job Board Diversity

NLP currently considers Indeed vs CB vs Zip

Search Box

Text box for search keyword and location, along with some filters

Search Algorithm

This is “hidden” with industry SEO trying to get jobs higher

Search Results

Layout with quick job summary, with options to read ad and/or easy apply

67% job searches start on mobile

73% job searches start on Google

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Job Seeker Behavior

Compensation

Easy Apply

Thoughtful

The more thoughtful the job seeker, the more likely the hiring company wants them

Thus NLP Campaigns cater to these applicants and gets them through the funnel

A majority are not reading the ads. NLP IAQ can sniff these out.

A minority are exploring different titles, filters, and actually reading ads before applying.

This is the #1

“attention filter”

for job seekers!

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Writing a Job Ad

The steps we take to write attention-grabbing job adverts

Hiring Company

Job Description

Hiring Manager

Interview Process

Environmental Scan

(job seeker identity)

Indeed Insights

CB Supply Demand

Job Seeker Options

Applicant Mindset

Maslow Hierarchy

Intellectual Diversity

Job Ad

This is Me!

Day in the Life

Org Chart Context

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NLP Campaigners ← → Hiring Company

4

3

2

1

RDB

Job Seekers

$30

$43

$3

Raving Fans

$4k

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CEIPAL Modules

Clients

Job Postings

Applicant Database

Job Board Integration

Applicant Tracking

Applicant Communication

Define Account Manager and Campaign Team who service the client

Usually created from parsing the client’s job description and then we turn it into a job ad

Includes their resume, Cloudcall contact history, and our notes

Also shows application moving through pipeline

Filter applicant pipeline

Submit to Job � (IAQ Yes or Disqualified)

Submit to Client � (Hand-off)

Text, Email, & Phone*

Applicant Notes/Activity

(CB, Zip)

  • Applications automatically flow into ATS Pipeline!!!
  • Indeed applicants & RDB’d Job Seekers manually uploaded

* Cloudcall $43/mo per user

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Hired Applicants�How do hires flow through a campaign?

Job Seeker applies on a board

integrated flow into CEIPAL from ZIP/CB

manual resume upload from Indeed

Campaigner uses CloudCall to text/call to start IAQ’ing

updates pipeline status

Campaigner successfully IAQ’s Applicant

Submit to Job

Submit to Client

Schedule Interview

Hiring Company notifies Campaigner

Add Confirmation

Hiring Company notifies Campaigner

Convert Confirmation to Placement

Applied

Contacted

Interview Scheduled

Offered

Hired

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1

2

7

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Applicant

Fall-Out

Where do applicants fall out of the campaign?

These are the metrics we are tracking

No Show

Not Joined

Applicant Withdrew

NLP Disqualified

Rejected by Client

Job Seeker does not start

Job Seeker goes radio silent

Job Seeker stands up Hiring Company

Campaigner IAQ’d No

Hiring Company rejects Job Seeker

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Investment

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Climbing the Mountain

getting to the next camp

Basecamp�FY 2021

$350k recurring annual revenue

$50k profit

4 customers

3 NLPeople

__________

$0 valuation

Camp 1

FY 2023

$1.2M recurring annual revenue

$400k profit

25 customers

13 NLPeople

___________

$___M valuation

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NLP Pro Forma Recurring Campaign Revenue

Base Camp $1.2M (FY 2023)

Circle Office of Excellence $750k gross margin staff temping markup (8k hrs) + contingency search fees

NLP Campaigns $100k/month campaign platform (25 Customers @ $4,000) + search service fees

  1. Sales Team ($240,000)

2 people to penetrate new accounts. Qualify leads. Subject Matter Expertise. Close.

  • Campaign Team ($512,000)

Campaign Manager + 4 Campaign Coordinators + 4 Campaign Specialists

8 people to deliver campaigns (75% to Campaigns | 12,800 total hours | avg 512/customer @$40/hr)

  • Account Manager ($80,000)

1 person to support customer relationships

  • President ($100,000)

1 person to lead the company

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Revenue Model

thru April 2022

Campaign Platform subscription revenue is king

Search services revenue is gravy

2022 Revenue

2022 Agreement

NLP Campaign Platform

$108,025

$176,600

Subscription

$67,525

$176,600

Plastic Packaging Technologies

$36,000

$108,000

JobFinders Employment Services

$7,925

$27,000

Triumph Foods 2000

$4,000

$22,000

Triumph Foods 4900

$19,600

$19,600

Opportunity

$5,000

Pilgrim's Coffee Company

$5,000

Relationship

$32,000

Sodexo

$13,200

NextPage

$18,100

Price Brothers Management Company

$700

Next Level Performers Campaign Search Services

$42,100

Plastic Packaging Technologies

$27,100

Rhythm Engineering

$15,000

2022 Performance (January - April)

$146,625

$176,600

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Sales Rep Comp Plan

Must be in CEIPAL (Leads → Clients → Job Postings)

Paid out same month client pays invoice

Training Camp -- Sales Rep Proficiency

Monthly Sales

Comm %

Monthly Comm

Monthly Comp

Annual Sales

Annual Comp

Labor %

$60,000

10%

$4,500

$9,083

$720,000

$108,996

15%

$55,000

8%

$3,200

$7,783

$660,000

$93,396

14%

$50,000

8%

$2,800

$7,383

$600,000

$88,596

15%

$45,000

6%

$1,800

$6,383

$540,000

$76,596

14%

$40,000

6%

$1,500

$6,083

$480,000

$72,996

15%

$35,000

6%

$1,200

$5,783

$420,000

$69,396

17%

$30,000

6%

$900

$5,483

$360,000

$65,796

18%

$25,000

6%

$600

$5,183

$300,000

$62,196

21%

$20,000

6%

$300

$4,883

$240,000

$58,596

24%

$15,000

$0

$4,583

$180,000

$54,996

31%

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Next Steps…

Bring applicant tracking system online to systemize the business

Develop scoreboard, playbook, positional stat sheets, and start tracking seasons

Engage the market to see if we can position NLP Campaigns as an alternative for hiring companies

Decision-making for investing in growth, including milestones to trigger next moves

Flush out the customer attention grabbers, relevance, differentiators (X’s), and objections. Rework website, marketing collateral, selling talking points, and service agreements.

ATS

(PRODUCT)

Org Dev 1.0

(TEAM)

Market Position

(CUSTOMER)

Pro Forma

(INVESTMENT)

Sales Convo

(CUSTOMER)

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Sales Experiment

What does it take to break into a new market by closing 10% of list in 90 days?

Summer 2022

Pick a mid-market

List of 100 hiring companies (HR Directors + Small Biz Owners)

Success = 10 new customers @ $3,500/month for at least 6 months

LTV = $210k / 10 = $21k

CAC = $20k / 10 = $2k

Gross Margin = $210k - $115k = $105k

Marketing $8k

Sales $12k

Campaign Team $96k

Following up on marketing lead gen

+ cold calling

2 Campaign Coordinators + 1 Campaign Specialist

Market Research

+ Website

+ Email Series

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Investment Decisions

2022 Non-P&L $$$ (Capital Investment) to get to next basecamp

Owner or Bootstrap or Private Equity funding

  • Builder ($__,000)

Someone who comes alongside Scott to move NLP to the next camp

  • Marketing Collateral ($__,000)

Market Research lead gen & Content Repository lead gen & Sales Support lead conversion

  • Campaign Team ($__,000)

Stay 1-2 people ahead of customer demands

  • Sales Team ($__,000)

How long will it take sales reps to generate revenue?

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Lawrence @NLP

Year 1

August 2020

November 2020

Summer 2021

SH: “Let’s dig deeper”

LA: consultant $1k

Jaylene & Steph scans

Growth Puzzle

SH: “Let’s expand the team”

LA: team builder $3k

Sales (Jim & Jeremy)

Campaigners (Christian, Justice, Kelsey)

Recruiter (Tammy)

SH: “What do I want to do?”

LA: thinking partner

Scott’s scan

Recruitment Marketing

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Year 2

September 2021

December 2021

March 2022

SH: “We’re switching ATS”

LA: software guy $3k

CEIPAL & Cloudcall & Boards

Vendor Relationships

SH: “Let’s go”

LA: business builder $3k

Growth Puzzle + Team + CEIPAL + Campaign

Steph & PPT

SH: “We need processes”

LA: process guy $3k

Playbooks & Zoho

Team Page

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Year 3

Summer 2022

2023 Pro Forma?

SH: “⅓ Strategy, Sales, Search”

LA: Campaign Manager $4k

Campaign Performance

Growth Puzzle + Team + CEIPAL + Campaign

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Archived Slides

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NLP “Staffing” Canvas

Cost Structure

Revenue (price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + options to buy from a Replacement vendor)

$2,000/campaign

Problem

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

Finding people is too hard because there aren’t enough qualified people.

Finding people is too hard because it takes too much of my attention.

Open jobs is costing me.

Existing Alternatives

Staffing Agencies

Internal Recruiters

Solution

“Recruitment Marketing”

Key Metrics

Success =

Value =

Customer Values

What are you promising?

Fast! Fill open spots NOW.

NLP campaigns double the response rate. We average 50% view-to-click compared to 25% national average.

Simplicity! Here is the job desc. You bring me the people.

We run a candidate-driven campaign.

Send me qualified applicants. I’ll hire.” �More people read NLP ads than your job description, and that will increase the % of qualified applicants.

High-Level Concept

NLP is to staffing what Google was to search

Unfair Advantage

Scott’s experience 🡪 job ads

Scott’s knowledge about job boards

Channels

Customer

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Staffing for growth

Staffing for churn

i.e. call centers, distribution centers, manufacturing, light industrial, collection agencies

Early Adopter Path

PRODUCT

MARKET

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NLP “Recruiting” Canvas

Cost Structure

Revenue (price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + options to buy from a Replacement vendor)

$2,000/campaign

Problem

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

Finding people is too hard because there aren’t enough qualified people.

Finding people is too hard because it takes too much of my attention.

Open jobs is costing me.

Existing Alternatives

Staffing Agencies

Internal Recruiters

Solution

“Recruitment Marketing”

Key Metrics

Success =

Value =

Customer Values

What are you promising?

Fast! Fill open spots NOW.

NLP campaigns double the response rate. We average 50% view-to-click compared to 25% national average.

Simplicity! Here is the job desc. You bring me the people.

We run a candidate-driven campaign.

Send me qualified applicants. I’ll hire.” �More people read NLP ads than your job description, and that will increase the % of qualified applicants.

High-Level Concept

NLP is to staffing what Google was to search

Unfair Advantage

Scott’s experience 🡪 job ads

Scott’s knowledge about job boards

Channels

Two-step Lead Gen:

Step1 = jobfeed.com

Step 2 = Job Postings (relationship) → Campaigns (selling)

Customer

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Staffing for growth

Staffing for churn

i.e. call centers, distribution centers, manufacturing, light industrial, collection agencies

Early Adopter Path

PRODUCT

MARKET

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NLP “Staffing” Canvas

Cost Structure

Revenue (price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + options to buy from a Replacement vendor)

$2,000/campaign

Problem

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

Finding people is too hard because there aren’t enough qualified people.

Finding people is too hard because it takes too much of my attention.

Open jobs is costing me.

Existing Alternatives

Staffing Agencies

Internal Recruiters

Solution

“Recruitment Marketing”

Key Metrics

Success =

Value =

Customer Values

What are you promising?

Fast! Fill open spots NOW.

NLP campaigns double the response rate. We average 50% view-to-click compared to 25% national average.

Simplicity! Here is the job desc. You bring me the people.

We run a candidate-driven campaign.

Send me qualified applicants. I’ll hire.” �More people read NLP ads than your job description, and that will increase the % of qualified applicants.

High-Level Concept

NLP is to staffing what Google was to search

Unfair Advantage

Scott’s experience 🡪 job ads

Scott’s knowledge about job boards

Channels

Two-step Lead Gen:

Step1 = jobfeed.com

Step 2 = Job Postings (relationship) → Campaigns (selling)

Customer

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Staffing for growth

Staffing for churn

i.e. call centers, distribution centers, manufacturing, light industrial, collection agencies

Early Adopter Path

PRODUCT

MARKET

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NLP “Staffing” Canvas

Cost Structure

Technology Stack

Indeed usage fees

Problem

Crossing the Chasm

market awareness

I’ve got open jobs in my facility and that is directly impacting production/ revenue

Existing Alternatives

Staffing Agencies

Solution

NLP Campaign

  • Environmental Scan
  • Job Ad
  • Posting Strategy
  • NLP Search
  • Tuning

Key Metrics

Success = Customer agrees to a retainer model within 1-3 months

Value = NLP Campaigns are outperforming existing alternative

Unfair Advantage

Scott’s experience 🡪 job ads

Scott’s knowledge about job boards

Channels

???

PRODUCT

MARKET

Revenue (price is dependent on their Need for what we offer + our Ability to deliver + options to buy from a Replacement vendor)

???

Customer Values

What are you promising?

Keep it simple for now...give them what they want...Fill open jobs!!!

Customer

Innovators Dilemma

competitive awareness

Early Adopters are 13% of the market. They are smart. They are willing to take risks. They want to negotiate. Sell to them, but don’t market to them. Don’t force them into a box. Allow them to break rules and customize the offer.

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Your Market Position �(in the eyes of the customer)

Talent Acquisition

Recruiting Employees

Retained

RM Campaign Strategists

Staffing Temps

Independent Contractors

Contingency

Job Boards (DIY)

Technology

AI

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Marketing & Sales Milestones�

1. Attention

2. Enrollment

3. Rapport

4. Relevance

5. Credibility

6. Certainty

Hard to get noticed

Environmental Scan

Why am I talking to you?

Campaign Strategists

How does it work?

Job Desc

Environmental Scan

Job Ad

Posting Strategy

Optional Adv

Tuning - Monthly + Qtryly

Am I sure I want to buy?

record 10M job postings

Marketing (market-focused)

Sales (thought-leadership)

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Marketing & Sales Milestones�

1. Attention

2. Enrollment

3. Rapport

4. Relevance

5. Credibility

6. Certainty

Hard to get noticed

Most companies post job descriptions. That’s a problem. This is why so many non-qualified people apply.

Why am I talking to you?

Job applicants are interested in what they will accomplish. What impact they will have. And what is in it for them.

How does it work?

Job Desc

Environmental Scan

Job Ad

Posting Strategy

Optional Adv

Tuning - Monthly + Qtryly

Am I sure I want to buy?

10M job postings

Marketing (market-focused)

Sales (thought-leadership)

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What will grab their attention?

Are you bored with the job boards?

Search Less

Hire More

Post and pray

Candidates spray and pray

We emotionally connect with candidates

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What will grab their attention?

Hiring is an admin function. Recruiting is a sales function.

How to run a marketing campaign for your open position

Getting Lost in the Job Board Jungle

and Social Media Swamp

Selecting which job boards to use is overwhelming

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What will grab their attention?

Job boards make it easier than ever to post jobs, but they are also turning recruitment into a numbers game with diminishing returns

Postings either generate a tremendous response, most of whom were not qualified, or get lost and generate no response at all

Many postings are lost in the Job Board Jungle. It is common for a new posting to show up several pages deep on a job board. Job seekers may have to view hundreds of postings before they get to yours.

Is writing a job ad more of an HR function or marketing function?

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What will grab their attention?

Job seekers have a hard time sifting through the avalanche of job postings.

The Internet has created thousands of places for companies and job seekers to find one another

Recruiting people requires a fundamental change – one that is understands the potential and challenges of the Internet

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What message(s) will find enrollment?

You know how to hire people better than anyone else.

Candidate-driven job postings perform better.

It takes way too much time to write job ads and navigate the job boards.

Most people don’t want to read a job description.

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What message(s) will find enrollment?

The online portion of recruiting is one of the least favorite parts of my job.

Job boards have radically changed the way you source and recruit candidates

Companies are not willing to pay executive search fees for candidates sourced from job boards

Postings get lost in the Job Board Jungle

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What message(s) will find enrollment?

Database search is expensive and frustrating

It is getting harder and harder for good job postings to rise above the noise

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What message(s) will build rapport?

The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series shows 4.8 million unduplicated jobs posted on over 1,200 job boards in the US. Over 50% of these jobs are reposted each month.

This does not count postings in the social networks and corporate job boards

What is your sourcing strategy? Selecting the right Job Boards, Databases to Mine, Social Network and the Groups within Social Networks

are critical decisions.

In the early days, the most recent jobs posting were

always at the top of the page. Eventually, the Job

Boards adapted to show the “most relevant” job postings regardless of when they were posted.

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What message(s) will build rapport?

Our customers are interested in someone managing the Job Boards for them. They want to move from spending time sourcing candidates to interviewing qualified people.

We understand what boards perform in what geographic regions and for various positions

Companies have good ads on the wrong boards or bad ads on the right boards

We know how to dive into search engines, create boolean searches, and write Google Strings

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What message(s) will build rapport?

The social networks added even more complexity to posting jobs

Navigating Social Networks requires building networks with a minimum of 500 contacts to reach the tipping point + learning how to recruit in these networks

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What message(s) will build rapport?

The job boards originally reduced the friction for the job seeker and the hiring company. Things became much more fluid.

Now, the friction is drowned out by all the noise.

A recent sales job search on one of the top three boards in Kansas City found1,920 postings. The job seeker would have to view 77 pages with 25 jobs posted per page.

Indeed says the average company utilizes 8 sources and the average job

seekers look at 16 channels

To keep ahead of the curve takes on-going training and a broad

exposure in the online world.

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What message(s) will build rapport?

In 1994 I started my career in staffing and recruiting. We grew our firm

to over 600 people a day working for a variety of companies in a

town of 86,000. We had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.

And recruiting, compared to now was easy. We dominated the

Classified ads. There were a couple of sources to advertise, but the classified ads ruled.

In 1998, we got a corporate discount with Monster, but declined to use

it. Why? The classified ads worked great.

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Landing Page

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What They Want:

    • Content, methods, tools, experience, risk mitigation, knowledge

How to Approach:

    • Highlight experience and “proven” methods
    • Be prepared to go deep into detail
    • Ask what they want, be prepared to listen at length and in detail
    • Explain how you avoid failure/manage risk
    • Provide proof wherever you can

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Do:

    • Highlight how you will finish the job
    • Avoid ambiguity
    • Complexity OK
    • Go deep several times for brief periods (don’t overdo)

Don’t:

    • Change their game
    • Tell them how to do everything – leave some mystery

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Job Description

Flood�or�Crickets

NLP Campaigns

Job Board Status Quo

Retail Pricing

Job Ad

Environmental Scan

Campaign Tuning

Legacy Contracts

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2

3

8

Job Ad

Campaign Tuning

Environmental Scan

Prospect: ________________________________

Need: ___________________________________

NLP �Database Search

Posting Strategy

Legacy Contracts

. . .

(the fewer the better)

“Mystery X”

Intellect Traits

Campaign Experience

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Environmental Scan

Story:

Trap:

Q&A:

  • These are questions we anticipate getting asked during the sales conversation.

  • A question you plant in their mind that sets up the competition for failure
    • What is your current approach to write job postings?
  • Emotional connectors into the X
    • Show a job desc vs a job ad???

Concept:

Short statement that intuitively communicates the X in 30sec

  • Our strategic planning puts your recruiting budget to better use and more than doubles the results

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  • Churn

What are the symptoms of their current situation?

Job Posting

Boil this down to a short summary

Status Quo

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Here is where you get into the features/benefits of your solution

  • We build job ads that promote your employee value proposition (EVP)

Promise of NLP

Campaign

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Job Posting

When NLP Campaigns are implemented, the job experience matches the candidate’s expectations

Campaign

  • Job Disillusionment
  • Job Fulfillment

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Campaign

Story:

Trap:

Q&A:

  • These are questions we anticipate getting asked during the sales conversation.

  • A question you plant in their mind that sets up the competition for failure
    • How does your current agency write job postings?
  • Emotional connectors into the X
    • Show a job desc vs a job ad???

Concept:

Short statement that intuitively communicates the X in 30sec

  • Year 1 vs Day 1???
  • We write ads that speak to people!

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  • Churn

What are the symptoms of their current situation?

Job Desc

Boil this down to a short summary

Status Quo

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Here is where you get into the features/benefits of your solution

  • We build job ads that promote your employee value proposition (EVP)

Promise of NLP

Job Ads

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Job Desc

When NLP Campaigns are implemented, the job experience matches the candidate’s expectations

Job Ad

  • 5% Click to Apply Ratio
  • 10% Click to Apply Ratio

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Job Ad

Story:

Trap:

Q&A:

  • These are questions we anticipate getting asked during the sales conversation.

  • A question you plant in their mind that sets up the competition for failure
    • How does your current agency write job postings?
  • Emotional connectors into the X
    • Show a job desc vs a job ad???

Concept:

Short statement that intuitively communicates the X in 30sec

  • Year 1 vs Day 1???
  • We write ads that speak to people!

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Job Boards

Story:

Trap:

Q&A:

  • These are questions we anticipate getting asked during the sales conversation.

  • A question you plant in their mind that sets up the competition for failure
  • Emotional connectors into the X

Concept:

Short statement that intuitively communicates the X in 30sec

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Legacy Contracts

Story:

Trap:

Q&A:

  • These are questions we anticipate getting asked during the sales conversation.

  • A question you plant in their mind that sets up the competition for failure
  • Emotional connectors into the X

Concept:

Short statement that intuitively communicates the X in 30sec

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NLP Campaigns for Hiring Companies

OBSESSED WITH REDUCING THE FRICTION IN HIRING

01

02

04

03

Research supply and demand, compensation ranges, and competitor postings

Write job ads that compel the desired job seekers to apply

JOB AD

Engage the pipeline to find the IAQ (interested, available, and qualified)

FILTER

Spend more time qualifying applicants & searching for top employed performers

SEARCH

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

05

Interview and present candidate portfolio

CANDIDATE PORTFOLIO

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NLP Campaigns for Hiring Companies

OBSESSED WITH REDUCING THE FRICTION IN THE HIRING PROCESS

01

02

04

03

05

Research supply and demand, compensation ranges, and competitor postings

Write job ads that compel the desired job seekers to apply

WRITE AD

Engage the pipeline to find the IAQ (interested, available, and qualified)

FILTER APPLICANTS

Search job board databases for resumes that are a fit on paper and invite them to apply

RESUME SEARCH

Measure campaign performance and tune where needed

ANALYTICS

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

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Campaign Options?

Do-It-Yourself Mentality

Job Description

Candidates to Interview

Applicants

Budget (Campaign)

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Campaign Options?

Do-It-Yourself Mentality

Candidates to Interview

Job Description

Full Service (Campaign + Tuning)

Job Description

Candidates to Interview

Applicants

Budget (Campaign)

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Sales Strategy

Tuesday w/Jeremy

Wednesday Strategy Session

Next Steps

Relationship building

Scott’s convenor role

Jim’s passion

Market Adoption Lifecycle (Slide 13)

Team positions (Slide 6-7)�--------�Qualifying Triangle (Slide 41)

See the Work (Slide 5)

Intellectual Traits – Jim and Jeremy’s differences + writing job ads (Slide 8)

NLP Market Position – How we see NLP’s market position (Slides 21-24)

Tuning Biz Model – Jim and Jeremy help us tune into the market (Slide 19)

NLP X’s – How we eliminate the competition (Slides 46-47)

NLP Campaign – Options for available to the customer (Slides 61-63)

We want to queue up next steps in terms of what Jim and Jeremy want us to build for them to support the sales strategy.

May include:

  • Sales Strategy Summary
  • Sales Rep Agreement
  • Customer Campaign Agreement
  • One Page Slick
  • Website/pages
  • Talking points

Jeremy’s leads

Jeremy’s approach to selling

Delineation between Staffing vs Recruiting campaigns (Slide 60)

NLP needs analysis – Current approach? Budget? (Slide 40)

Qualifying Triangle (Slide 41)

Defining qualified leads

Pricing campaigns

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Zoho vs Ceipal

Zoho $650/yr

CEIPAL $360/yr

  • Currently we download and upload HTML resume files
  • CEIPAL automatically flows applicants into ATS as soon as they apply on job board

1

Extracting Applicants from Job Board

  • Both systems have customizable options to track status of applicants

2

Applicant Status Tracking

  • Currently most contact is in the job boards because Zoho has limited functionality
  • CEIPAL has solid email, text, and phone integration and should centralize activity

3

Contacting Applicants

  • Currently, one NLP team member is set up to work a client/job
  • CEIPAL offers flexible team-based approach for multiple people to work jobs

4

Team-Based Approach

  • Currently we download resumes as HTML and send them to the client via Outlook
  • CEIPAL has a built-in option to forward Word Doc resumes

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Submitting to Client

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$3500

$6500

$1500

ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN

(market intelligence)

JOB AD�(personality/traits)

FILTER APPLICANTS

(interested-available-qualified)

INVITE�(passive job seekers)

CANDIDATE PROFILE�(experience/skills/character)

COMPONENTS

EASY

MID

DIFFICULT

Service Levels

Hiring Company filling Open Positions

Thinking like an ad agency

RECRUIT�(top employed performers)

Thinking like a sales rep

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Easy Campaign P&L

Duration: 2 days

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$375

$283 Indeed ad buy

$68 Zip posting

$24 CB posting

$324 (8 hrs)�

Job Ad

Posting

IAQ (3-6 applicants)

$300

$1,500 x 20% commission

Revenue

$1,500

Expense

$1,000

Profit

$500

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Mid Campaign P&L

Duration: 7 days

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$375

$283 Indeed ad buy

$68 Zip posting

$24 CB posting

$1,170 (28 hrs)

Environmental Scan

Job Ad

Posting

IAQ (6-12 applicants)

+ RDB

$700

$3,500 x 20% commission

Revenue

$3,500

Expense

$2,245

Profit

$1,155

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Difficult Campaign P&L

Duration: 30 days

Sales

Advertising

Recruiting Team

$375

$283 Indeed ad buy

$68 Zip posting

$24 CB posting

$2,680

Environmental Scan

Job Ad

Posting

IAQ (6-12 applicants)

RDB

+ Recruiter

+ Profiles (1-3 candidates)

$1,300

$6,500 x 20% commission

Revenue

$6,500

Expense

$4,355

Profit

$2,145

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Campaign Subscription P&L

What is it for? (2-3 easy-to-fill jobs & 12 postings & 18 interviews → 12 hires)

Sales

Advertising

Campaign Team ($40/hr)

$941

$200 Zip (90 days)

$288 CB (12 slots)

$453 Indeed

$7,459 (186 hrs)�

Environmental Scans

Job Ads

Posting Budget

IAQ (3-6 applicants per post)

Tuning

$3,600

$18k x 20% commission

Revenue

$18,000

Expense

$12,000

Profit

$6,000

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Dating vs.

Recruiting

IAQ?

How similar are they?

No Show

Contacted

NLP Disqualified

Interview Scheduled

Rejected by Client

Applicant Withdrew

Applied

Offered

Not Joined

Hired

Stood Up

Match

Swipe Left

Meet-n- Greet

Unmatch

Swipe Right

Date

Stood Up

Relationship

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Dating vs

Recruiting

How similar are they?

No Show

Stood Up

Contacted

Match

NLP Disqualified

Swipe Left

Interview Scheduled

Meet-n- Greet

Rejected by Client

Applicant Withdrew

Unmatch

Applied

Swipe Right

Offered

Date

IAQ?

Not Joined

Stood Up

Hired

Relationship

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