Employer Branding - Importance and Implications

This article discusses the concept of employer branding and its importance in attracting, recruiting and retaining talented employees. It also highlights the implications of employer branding on a company's culture, diversity and ethical practices. The article cites examples of successful employer branding strategies and concludes that employer branding is a crucial tool for companies to select and retain ideal employees.

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EMPLOYER BRANDING 1
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In this present world the company must have some unique image in the market and this
unique image is known as employer branding. It is basically a process in which a company uses
concept of marketing with respect to science of branding for the completion of Human resources
activities by promotes company by serving the companies capability for attracting, recruiting and
retaining talented employees to maintain the progress of the company for its long business term
(Theurer et al, 2018).
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The concept behind employer branding was if company presents all the specification of
some product in order to attract the potential customer then why not promote specification of our
employees for development of the company (Lievens & Slaughter, 2016). Hence, if any
company wants growth and top raking in this business market, the employer branding is the most
important aspect for consideration because branding of employers automatically brand the
company as employer is the part of the community and any community is the platform where
individual influence the other individual through their actions (Alniacik et al, 2014). The theory
of employer branding was given by Marti Edwards in 2013 on the assumption that when
Companies explain and judiciously achieve their occupation experience this would help generate
worth and inspiration (Edwards & Edwards, 2013).
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Employer branding is actually a cluster of characteristics and potentials, frequently
intangible, that brands a company distinguishing, assure a specific kind of service experience,
and requests to those persons who will flourish and accomplish finest in its environment (Aslam
et al, 2015). Anything that a candidate has ever listen or experienced or read about any company
will automatically enter in the decision of the candidate whether the candidate should work with
the company or not (Sivertzen, Nilsen & Olafsen, 2013). The way company analysis the
candidate for a particular post, similarly the candidate also analyzes the company on the base of
their image in the market.

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A robust employer brand is significant in serving the company to stand strongly with the rivals
when it derives to appealing the brilliant minds towards the company (Leekha Chhabra &
Sharma, 2014). As per study it has been seen that the company who has successfully
implemented employer branding has able to cut the cost of hiring and also to retain its ideal
employees due to its brand image almost with 75% success.
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General Electric is one of the best examples of employer branding at work place. General
Electric took adequate amount of time to understand its target audience and then came up with a
proposal of promoting through video with the help of multi-pronged media (Yoh, 2017). In this
video, one guy is expressing his excitement of working with General Electric to family and in the
end of the video appearance of apply button is displayed which is the symbol of employer brand
promotion (Van Hoye et al, 2013).
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Implication of employer branding on the company is that the company will be able to
select the best applicant for any post along with the selection not only on local group but from
also from international platform (Biswas & Suar, 2016). By employer branding company will
support the culture of diversity. Employer branding will direct the company to go for ethical
practice which will help the company in creating a better image in the community (Sehgal &
Malati, 2013).
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Over all conclusion of this report is that employer branding in present act as the face of
the company in the business market which is read by the potential applicant to enter in the choice
of whether work for the company or not. Also Employer branding act as an important tool in the
hands of company by which they are able to select and retain its ideal employees.

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