
Overview of the global employer branding market
Key trends and lessons for 2024. HR branding now
How will changes in the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal environment affect your employer brand strategy?
The role and responsibility of the employer brand leader
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Employer brand strategy
Who we build a strong internal employer brand for
Identifying target audiences
Conducting research on target audiences
Developing a portrait of target audiences
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Conducting a strategic audit of employer branding
Conducting external market analysis using PESTEL methodology to understand key trends
Best internal and external employer brand research techniques for EVP strategy development
Employer brand building
Adaptation and implementation of employer brand roadmap
Development of employer brand architecture.
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Develop key employer brand indicators for your strategy
Defining the scope of your metrics and aligning them with your organisation's goals
Defining your employer brand KPIs
Engaging leaders through analytics and reporting
Developing an employer brand indicator dashboard.
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Development and activation of a communication plan
Activating the employer brand and EVP online and offline
Latest global social media research
Conducting a social media audit
Development of a social media policy
Developing an employer brand ambassador programme.
Global social media landscape - key platforms and focus
Using social media in employer branding - how to optimise reach and achieve business impact
Aligning social media strategy with your employer branding goals
Paid online community building versus organic growth
Promoting the employer brand
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Aligning candidate and employee experience with your brand position and values
Linking interactions with customers and employees
Current practices in brand experience development. What role does HR branding play
Understanding the relationship between employee, customer and shareholder value
Aligning employer and customer brand strategy
Segmenting employees to optimise the employee experience
Activating your employer value proposition (EVP) throughout the employee lifecycle
Localisation of your employer brand strategy to optimise its relevance.
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What does 'The Future of Work' look like? What will the HR brand be like in the future?
Key technological and social trends shaping the future of employer branding
Customising and personalising the employee experience
The future of the employee and candidate
Company experience
Developing a 3 year plan and forecast for your employer brand strategy.
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Creating a Tilde based landing page
Creating creativity for social media with Crello and Canva
Running targeting ads on Facebook and Instagram
Writing sales texts for jobs
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Tools in this lecture: Role Map and Channel Picker (HTML) with a role map, neighbor cards, post request form, channel picker, week planner and access list, plus 24 ready tools on the slides.
Sort tasks into what you own, what you decide together with marketing, sales, support and HR, and what belongs to another owner.
Answer three questions for each channel, count content hours and reply time, and choose one primary channel and up to two supporting channels.
Practical assignment: fill in the role map for your company with three columns, your neighbors and one primary channel with its weekly hours.
Tools in this lecture: One-Page Strategy (HTML) with an account audit, goal builder, audience cards, channel jobs, voice line, metric selection, and resources and rhythm, plus 27 ready tools on the slides.
Audit current accounts and the last ten posts, then decide for each account: keep, fix or park.
Turn a business goal into a social goal with a number and a date; describe the user, the decision maker and the budget holder.
Practical assignment: fill in the one-page strategy for your company with a goal, audience, channels, a voice line and three metrics.
Tools in this lecture: Content Pillars Builder (HTML) with an audience question list, pillar cards, share mix, formats by channel, voice rules, topic bank and month check, plus 41 ready tools on the slides.
Collect audience questions from sales, support and comments, and group them into 4–6 content pillars with an owner for the material.
Split the monthly number of posts by pillar shares, and compare target shares with what was actually published last month.
Practical assignment: build the content pillars for your company with shares, formats by channel, voice rules and a month check.
Tools in this lecture: Content Calendar Planner (HTML) with a publishing rhythm calculator, monthly calendar, content brief, workflow dates, approval rule and log, repurposing plan and scheduling checklist, plus 25 ready tools on the slides.
Count how many posts fit into the available content hours and keep a reserve before filling the calendar.
Set brief, draft, approval and scheduling dates backward from the publishing day; separate routine posts from posts that need explicit approval.
Practical assignment: build next month's content calendar with eight fields per row, a named approver and an approval rule agreed with your manager.
Tools in this lecture: Post Template Kit (HTML) with a hook bank, post builder, call-to-action bank, channel versions, rewrite trainer and pre-publish checklist, plus 58 ready tools on the slides.
Choose one of six post structures for the pillar, write the first line from seven opener types and end with a single ask.
Adapt one post for LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube, and practice rewriting weak drafts without changing the facts.
Practical assignment: write three checked posts for your company's next week, each with a structure, a first line and one ask.
Tools in this lecture: LinkedIn Page Plan (HTML) with a 15-point page checklist, format picker, employee sharing kit, page numbers and weekly routine, plus 18 ready tools on the slides.
Check the company page in four groups, write the tagline and the first line of the overview, and list the gaps with an action and an owner.
Choose formats for your situation, prepare a sharing message with captions for employees, and record page figures with their source.
Practical assignment: audit your company's LinkedIn page with the checklist and close its top three gaps in one page plan.
Tools in this lecture: Reply Bank and Escalation (HTML) with a reply bank, escalation table, public-or-private decision, hide-delete-block guide, first-hour checklist, reply trainer and message log, plus 45 ready tools on the slides.
Prepare replies for eight message types, from thanks and simple questions to complaints, negative comments, provocation and a company mistake.
Name who replies, who resolves and by when; decide what stays public and what moves to a private message; draft a holding statement.
Practical assignment: complete a reply bank for your company with eight message types, named escalation owners and response times.
Tools in this lecture: Monthly Report Builder (HTML) with a data sheet, metric calculator, UTM builder, post review, keep-change-stop decision and six-part report, plus 23 ready tools on the slides.
Calculate engagement rate, click-through rate, follower growth, monthly change and visit-to-request conversion from your own numbers.
Tag links so website visits can be traced to a channel, review the best and the worst post, and decide what to keep, change or stop.
Practical assignment: build last month's report for one channel with five metrics, the best and worst post and one decision.
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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
2,674 employer branding tools in one course, including 1,800 ready-to-use files, templates, checklists, scripts and prompts, 95 services and apps shown on screen and 459 models and methods.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in this week's EVP workshop, career page, job ad or candidate survey.
Why employer branding stays a slide deck
Everyone agrees the company needs a stronger employer brand. Then the work starts and stalls: no research on what candidates actually value, an EVP written in a meeting room, a content plan nobody maintains, and no numbers to show the CEO. The budget goes to a campaign, the campaign ends, and candidates still choose the competitor they have heard of.
What changes after this course
You work from instruments instead of opinions. Research questions that reveal what your people value. A template that turns the answers into an EVP. A checklist for the career page and the job ad. A content plan and prompts that produce posts in minutes. A metric set that shows whether candidates and employees noticed. Each step leaves a document you can show.
What is inside: 2,674 tools, counted file by file
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
I have worked on employer branding through both employee research and recommendations for promotion. At Wargaming, I ran many local surveys and a global survey about the employer value proposition, with more than 2000 employees taking part. I also carried out extensive work on the employer value proposition and prepared a set of recommendations covering both the proposition itself and employer promotion. This experience informs the employer branding tools in this course.
How to use the course
Start with the four core sections: they cover the employer brand from EVP to communication. Then treat the rest as a reference library. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can find the right tool without watching everything in order.
What is included
Where to start
Ask five recent hires why they chose your company and five candidates why they declined. Open the EVP section, take the research questions and the EVP template, and write the first version this week. Employers that state their offer clearly win candidates without paying more, and every month without one is paid for in declined offers. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.