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Overview Of Employee Value Proposition

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According to a Harvard Business Review article, written by Richard Mosley in May 2015 (Mosley, 2015), the term ‘employer brand’ was first defined in the mid-1990s. It denoted an organization’s reputation as an employer, as opposed to its more general corporate brand reputation. And building a strong employer brand first became a major focus of activity between 2004 and 2008, when in response to the growing competition for talent, leading companies like Unilever, Shell and P&G began to apply the same focus and consistency to their employer branding as they applied to their corporate and consumer branding. This led to the development of an Employee Value Proposition (EVP), which defined the key benefits offered by the company as an employer, and the production of employer brand guidelines, which aimed to bring greater consistency to the company’s recruitment advertising.
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(Seiden, 2014)Randstad is one of the world’s largest HR consulting firm. They provide an end-to-end recruitment process outsourcing. They say a company's employer brand is really important to them because otherwise they cannot recruit people in that company. According to them ‘an employer brand represents the image a company projects as a potential employer‘. If you have a strong employer brand and unique value proposition, then your company is considered. Jason Seiden states that the definition is important because it establishes the employer brand as part of the corporate identity- it’s an image the company projects, just like a product brand- and suggests that what’s most important is the unique value a company offers that employees can’t get elsewhere. HRO Today defines employer branding as the perception of an

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