How MSD has constructed a robust employer model by means of highly effective storytelling

Put up the digital ceremony of the Asia Recruitment Awards 2020, Singapore, MSD’s Head of HR APAC, Noora Alsagoff shares her crew’s profitable technique for the gold win within the Greatest Employer Branding class.

On 24 July 2020 the place over 70 gold, silver, bronze and particular person winners had been topped as prime expertise acquisition and recruitment groups and people throughout APAC, MSD was one in every of them.

On this interview, Noora reveals 4 pillars which might be foundational to the organisation’s employer model and tradition in serving to to unlock a robust aggressive edge within the trade.

Q What’s your organisation’s recruitment technique, and the way has it advanced in current occasions? How does this agenda match into the larger HR priorities, and do you’re employed carefully with the CEO for this?

At MSD, the expertise acquisition operate is a part of the HR organisation and collaborates carefully with enterprise leaders to make sure its priorities are at all times aligned with enterprise wants.

Working inside a fast-evolving healthcare panorama, with the necessity to embrace digitalisation throughout all components of the corporate (notably in business, knowledge science, and analysis), our recruitment technique has additionally advanced to concentrate on creating and buying expertise with an array of abilities that will not have existed only a few years in the past.

Q Share with us your profitable recruitment technique. What had been the important thing enterprise drivers behind this technique?

The competitors for expertise throughout the biopharmaceutical trade is a fierce one. On the identical time, in our efforts in the direction of digitalisation, we’re additionally looking for candidates from various backgrounds in different industries to strengthen our expertise pool.

We recognised the necessity for a novel and dynamic employer model that would entice, not simply candidates who already know who we’re and what we do, however those that aren’t but conversant in the energy of our model within the biopharmaceutical trade.

Our profitable employer model technique targeted on:

• The tradition of our organisation as being inspiring, collaborative, various, and inclusive – and the tag line, ‘Invent. Influence. Encourage.’ was born. This tag line is utilized in our complete exterior employer branding communication globally.
• Glocalisation, the place the worldwide employer model could possibly be tailored to the expertise wants of a selected market. For instance, if a market was in want of producing expertise, recruitment imagery would mirror engineering and high quality assurance. If it wanted analysis professionals, imagery would mirror folks in lab coats.
• A social media technique that included sponsored posts with tailor-made content material for focused audiences.
• Implementation of a brand new expertise known as Phenom Folks, a CRM platform that permits recruitment advertising and marketing and occasion administration, AI-powered job search and a chatbot on our profession web sites, distribution to native job boards, and deep analytics to assist us perceive the affect of our efforts.

Q In what form or kind did you expertise challenges, and the way did you overcome them? 

Within the biopharmaceutical trade, there’s a disconnect between demand for and provide of expertise. It’s a candidate’s market, the place expert professionals have the freedom of selection and employers are underneath strain to offer a really differentiated worker expertise with a view to entice and retain prime expertise.

Via the articulation of our employer model, ‘Invent. Influence. Encourage.’, we had been capable of form our technique and messaging round our values as an organization – that solely by specializing in sufferers first, will the earnings comply with. This sturdy sense of goal proved to be a invaluable proposition particularly for early expertise, who’re looking for goal of their profession.

Q On to crucial half – outcomes! How did you measure the ROI or milestones of this initiative?

The implementation of the Phenom Folks platform has supplied us with the chance to check the behaviours of holiday makers to our profession web sites globally. Job seekers can even join accounts to allow simpler job functions on our platform; and we now have greater than 130,000 candidates registered for the reason that introduction of this platform in mid-2019.

We even have greater than 1mn visits to our posted jobs, over 200,000 clicks to “apply”, and a few half one million interactions with our chatbot.

Extra than simply numbers, we’re most pleased with the way in which we’ve been capable of develop our attain to a various pool of expertise from past the biopharmaceutical trade – which supplies us higher alternatives to rent the most effective expertise for the various thrilling roles now we have now and sooner or later.

Q What’s your secret to telling a fantastic employer model story? How carefully do you’re employed along with your friends in advertising and marketing to carry this story to life?

We inform tales on social media from the views of our leaders in addition to colleagues throughout generations, tenures, ranges, capabilities, and divisions. On this means, our audiences are capable of get an actual sense of the work surroundings in MSD, be impressed by the profitable profession journeys of our colleagues, and perceive how we contact lives.

The expertise acquisition crew additionally works with a bunch of social media ambassadors throughout the area, who’re empowered to amplify these tales to permit for higher attain to their networks.

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