Recruitment Marketing for Staffing Firms

More applicants. Better candidates. Faster fills.

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Staffing firms served

We were burning through our Indeed budget with nothing to show for it. Haley rebuilt our entire candidate strategy — career site, programmatic ads, employer brand — and our fill rates improved within 60 days.

Director of Recruiting, Mid-Size Industrial Staffing Firm

Filling orders takes more than posting jobs.

Candidates have more places to search, more staffing firms competing for their attention, and more information to consider before they apply. Recruitment marketing helps you reach the right people, gives them reasons to choose you, and makes it easier to take the next step.

Problem

Traffic and clicks don't guarantee applicants

Job boards only reach candidates who are actively searching — passive candidates are on social instead. And wherever you advertise, your career site and application experience still need to turn that interest into action.

Problem

Candidates are evaluating you, too

Job seekers can compare opportunities, research your reputation and decide what they think of your firm before speaking with a recruiter. Your employment brand and online reviews influence that decision.

Problem

Recruiting shouldn't stop when the job ad does

Your database, candidate relationships and recruiting technology are valuable assets. A stronger recruitment marketing strategy helps you attract new candidates while making better use of the people and technology you already have.

Build a stronger recruiting funnel.

Combine the right recruiting channels, candidate experiences and technology to attract talent, strengthen your employer brand and help your recruiters get more from their marketing.

Career Sites

Turn more job seekers into applicants with a staffing-specific career site designed around candidate experience. Make jobs easier to find, improve the mobile application experience and connect your recruiting website with your ATS and broader recruitment marketing.

Improve Candidate Experience · Drive Applications

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Programmatic Job Advertising

Make smarter decisions about where—and how—you advertise your jobs. Use staffing-specific strategy, technology, testing and ongoing optimization to determine which job advertising sources work best, allocate budget based on recruiting needs and generate more applications without unnecessary overspending.

Reach Candidates · Improve Ad ROI

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Social Recruiting

Job boards only reach candidates who are actively searching. Social Recruiting reaches passive candidates where they're already spending time — turning social media into a real recruiting channel. Combine targeted advertising, engaging creative and ongoing campaign management to promote your jobs, strengthen your recruiting presence and connect with more potential candidates.

Expand Your Reach · Build Your Brand

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Employment Branding

Give candidates a clearer reason to choose your staffing firm. Define your employee value proposition, strengthen recruiting messages and create a more consistent employment brand across the places candidates encounter your firm.

Differentiate Your Firm · Attract Talent

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Reputation Management

Take a more proactive approach to what candidates say about your staffing firm online. Collect candidate feedback, encourage positive reviews, monitor your reputation and turn positive candidate experiences into visible social proof.

Build Trust · Strengthen Your Reputation

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Sense & Bullhorn Automation

Get more from the recruiting automation technology you've already invested in. Use staffing-specific strategy, automation programs, custom messaging, content and ongoing management to support candidate and client communication without creating more manual marketing work for your team.

Improve Communication · Put Automation to Work

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Why staffing firms choose Haley for recruitment marketing

We understand staffing

Recruitment marketing for staffing firms isn't the same as marketing a traditional employer. You're recruiting continuously, filling changing orders and competing for candidates across different clients, jobs and markets. Our strategies are built around that reality.

We look beyond applicant volume

More applications aren't automatically better. Your recruiting marketing needs to support the jobs you're trying to fill while making smart use of your advertising budget, candidate experience and recruiting resources.

Connect the pieces instead of managing isolated tactics

Your job advertising, career site, employment brand, reputation, social recruiting and automation should support one another. Start with the biggest gap in your recruiting process, then connect the services that make sense for your goals.

Start where your biggest recruiting gap is.

You don't need every recruitment marketing service at once. Start with the challenge that's making it harder to recruit, then build from there.

Most popular

Become the Staffing Firm Candidates Choose

For firms competing for talent that has plenty of options. Strengthen how candidates perceive your firm before, during and after the recruiting experience.

Includes

  • Employment Branding
  • Reputation Management
  • Career Sites
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Recruitment marketing team reviewing career site analytics and campaign performance

Starting point

Become the Staffing Firm Candidates Choose

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What a recruitment marketing program looks like in practice

One mini case study. Outcome first.

Result first

Cost-per-application dropped 41%.

Client

Light industrial staffing firm, 4 markets, high-volume open orders

Challenge

Consistently missing fill rate targets. High cost-per-application from Indeed. Employer brand nonexistent — candidates had no reason to choose them over competitors posting the same jobs.

What we did

Rebuilt career site with ATS integration and mobile-optimized apply flow. Launched programmatic job advertising to replace manual Indeed management. Developed employer brand messaging and launched a social recruiting program targeting passive candidates in each market.

Common questions about recruitment marketing

Structured to support AI search discovery (AEO/AIO).

What's the difference between recruitment marketing and posting jobs?
Posting jobs is one recruiting tactic. Recruitment marketing takes a broader view of how candidates discover your opportunities, evaluate your staffing firm, apply for jobs and stay connected with your team. That can include job advertising, career sites, social recruiting, employment branding, reputation management and recruiting automation.
What is programmatic job advertising?
Programmatic job advertising uses technology and performance data to help determine where to advertise jobs and how to allocate your budget. Haley Marketing combines technology with staffing expertise, testing and ongoing analysis to help generate the quality and quantity of applicants you need without unnecessary overspending.
Do we need a separate career site?
A staffing career site gives job seekers a recruiting-focused experience built around finding opportunities and applying. It can connect with your ATS, improve mobile job search and application, support your employment brand and provide a stronger destination for recruitment advertising.
How does employment branding help recruiting?
Employment branding answers an important candidate question: Why should I choose your staffing firm? It helps define and communicate your employee value proposition and recruiting messages so candidates get a more consistent reason to choose you across your career site, job advertising, social media and other recruiting touchpoints.
What's the difference between employment branding and reputation management?
Employment branding defines what you want candidates to understand and value about working with your firm. Reputation management helps you collect feedback and strengthen what candidates see when they research other people's experiences with your firm. The two can work together, but they solve different problems.
What does Haley Marketing's Reputation Management service include?
Haley Marketing's Reputation Management program uses candidate surveys to gather feedback and identify positive experiences. Promoters can be invited to share reviews on sites such as Google, Glassdoor and Yelp, while other candidates can provide feedback privately. The program also includes review-site integrations, alerts and reporting.
Can Haley Marketing help if we already have Sense or Bullhorn Automation?
Yes. Haley Marketing offers Automation Audits, Start-Up programs, advanced campaign development, custom messaging and content, reporting and ongoing platform management to help staffing firms get more from Sense or Bullhorn Automation.
Can we start with just one recruitment marketing service?
Yes. Start with the problem that's creating the biggest recruiting challenge—candidate attraction, advertising efficiency, candidate experience, employment brand, reputation or automation—and choose the service that addresses it. Additional services can be connected as your needs evolve.

Ready to build a stronger candidate pipeline?

Start with your biggest recruiting challenge. We'll help you identify the recruitment marketing services that make sense for your firm—and how they can work together to support your recruiters.