Far too often companies let schools (Ivy leagues), grades or specific companies do the vetting for them. The Shakespeare quote The world is your oyster sets the tone perfectly.
Sharing that common purpose will result in a hire who is happy in their environment, productive and more likely to remain dedicated on those rainy days. Aligning your talent to your values creates an emotional connection with your culture from the start of an employees journey. Yes, you may need to change the direction sometimes, but you should never, ever put the compass down and find yourself wandering aimlessly!Īt Spotify, we look for awesome people (why not set the bar high?!) that align with our core values: Innovative, Sincere, Passionate, Collaborative, Playful and our Band Manifesto (which outlines our ways of working). Once you’ve assessed the talent requirements for your company and decided what is right for you, use that as your compass – and don’t let it go. A solid talent attraction strategy is bespoke to your requirements, driven by your culture and business strategy. There is no one size fits all – what is right for you might not be right for someone else. I can not stress enough the importance of this ‘all-in’ attitude across the company, to be able to seek the talent that the business requires. The growth we’ve achieved would not be possible if we weren’t singing from the same songbook together – relying on our company culture, mission and the band manifesto to bring us together and act as our guide in this collaborative work. We’ve also gone from receiving 29,000 to over 60,000 applications per month. Growing from 3,000 to close to 7,000 Spotifiers in these two years, I can genuinely say that we walk the talk. Our strategy is based on the ideology that it’s a partnership across the entire business, that the talent acquisition team is not in it alone. In the same way that the foundations to our overarching Spotify’s People Strateg y exist in our company values, mission, and the Band Manifesto, the foundations to our talent attraction strategy are reflected here too. Every single band member contributes to attracting new band members, and our talent attraction strategy starts with that mind-set. Confused? For a split second I was too, before it quickly sunk in that the point being made was not that there is a team of people with a recruiter as their job title, but that attracting talent is a part of all of our jobs. When I first joined the band two years ago, one of our leaders told me to remember that as a company, we already had over 3,000 recruiters.
All four tenets are of equal importance, yet talent attraction remains top of mind, especially when you’re in a state of (prolonged) hyper-growth. One of the four tenets in our People Strategy is talent attraction.
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