Data-based Candidate Personas
"Candidate Centricity in Recruiting: Confronting the Skills Shortage."
There is a shortage of personnel in many industries. Applicants can choose where they go: Companies apply to them. And that costs time and effort.
Our data-based Candidate Personas take some of that out of your hands.
This is how data-based candidate personas help:
- Detailed targeting - performance campaigns without wastage
- Tone-of-voice (speech) perfectly matched to the candidates
- Choice of the most effective media channels
- The Candidate Journey becomes a unique experience.
- You are where your dream candidates are, thanks to data-based Candidate Personas.
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The Buyer Persona Institute sets international quality standards for persona development, to which we commit ourselves by certification.
For our concept in the provision of scientifically based personas, which is suitable for medium-sized companies, we have been awarded the Innovator of the Year 2022 of the German Economy.
Candidate Personas from the Persona Institute are the best solution when ...
... your current personas are not producing results.
Personas often emerge in workshops, based on experience and gut feeling. A shaky foundation.
Personas that you create with PERSONA PROFILER are 100% based on data.
... no market research budget is available.
With the PERSONA PROFILER you have all persona-relevant data in the sedcard, scientifically collected.
... you don't have time to create personas.
data-driven personas takes time: researching, setting up surveys, evaluating and visualising.
With the PERSONA PROFILER, your data-driven persona sedcard is created in a maximum of 48 hours.
... Web and social analytics data alone are not enough for meaningful personas.
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Candidate Personas with the Persona Institute
Professional data basis for your target group
The starting point for our data-based Candidate Personas is your existing data: Web analytics data, CRM data, social media metrics, survey evaluations, applicant management system data, HR master data (anonymized). We supplement these with:
- Datasets from more than one million interviews based on standardized scientific questionnaires.
- Representative for more than 12 countries, more than 1,000 markets and industries - updated four times a year.
- Representative studies from different sources.
- Database with more than 1 million statistics on more than 70,000 topics.
In this way, you ensure less wastage and efficient use of your capacities in recruiting campaigns.
Persona-Sedcards
The Sedcard delivers to each of your target group data-driven personas with hundreds, selectable data (age, income, hobbies, uvm.) and is available in each case as basis & Premium version.
Get a better idea through the sample personas (downloadable as PDF):
CANDIDATE PERSONA: IT EMPLOYEE [PREMIUM].
A candidate persona for IT staff at a drinking water utility.
CANDIDATE PERSONA: GRADUATES/STUDENTS WITH MINT FOCUS [PREMIUM]
A Candidate Persona on Graduates and Students with a STEM Focus
Access to the Persona Profiler
Create, manage and update your data and personas clearly in one place with the innovative tool of the Persona Institute:
Here you can find a detailed explanation & guide to Persona Profiler:
Persona Playbook & E-Book
For each data-driven persona sedcard, you also receive a Persona Playbook with operationalized recommendations for your daily work. The playbook contains concrete targeting recommendations, content ideas, design suggestions, pain points of the applicants , motivators and more.
Testimonials from our customers
CENIT shapes sustainable digitalization. With CENIT at their side, customers have far-reaching opportunities to optimize their horizontal and vertical business processes.
Our task: Verification, falsification and enrichment of the experience-based personas with scientific data.
"The excellent pool of structured market data provided by the Persona Institute deserves special mention. Thanks to these outstanding resources, we were able to develop insightful and comprehensible data-driven personas , which are now ready for use - and which many employees are now working with." - Lisa Klenz, Teamlead Digital Marketing
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG is the third largest energy company in Germany.
Our task: Verification, falsification and enrichment of the candidate personas with scientific data.
"We developed our candidate personas using internal focus groups and researched study results. Thanks to the Persona Institute's depth of data, we were able to verify them and enrich them with valuable insights. The ability to chat with our personas is a nice, easy way to make them accessible." - Laura Torregrossa, Employer Branding Consultant
The Persona Institute has developed data-based candidate personas for the Theo Müller Group in order to address potential applicants exactly where they are on a daily basis - away from traditional job portals.
In just 10 days to a data-based Candidate Persona.
How to proceed after Booking continues
After booking, your data-based personas are created in 7 steps and a maximum of 10 working days:
1. preliminary talk
We clarify your requirements and needs in an appointment lasting around 15 minutes - based on a structured discussion guide.
2. questionnaire
You will receive a questionnaire. With it we collect: Existing data, experience, goals - important: please involve all relevant stakeholders from the beginning to answer the questions!
3rd Kickoff Workshop
1 hour via teams/zoom: consultation on questionnaire, setting the horizon of expectations.
4. data collection and analysis
We comb through our survey data and any other statistics that are relevant to your target audience. Our sources:
- Dataset of more than one million interviews based on standardized scientific questionnaires. Representative for more than 12 countries, more than 1,000 markets andindustries - updated four times a year.
- Database with more than 1 million statistics on more than 70,000 topics.
5. sedcards and playbook are created
Persona Institute delivers the first sedcards including the Persona Playbook (operationalized recommendations for action) to you digitally by e-mail. You review sedcards and playbooks, collect questions and comments from as many stakeholders as possible, and provide feedback to Persona Institute.
6. iteration loop
Data Deepdive to resolve outstanding issues, if any, Finalizing the sedcards and playbooks -> digitally to you.
7. final workshop
You derive further to-dos from the sedcards and get all stakeholders on board. The result is the basis for the 1-2 hour final workshop. Goal: Derive an action plan per persona through sparring/benchmarking.
The book suitable for the theme:
Skills shortages, digitization, and the constantly changing needs and requirements of job applicants: Successful recruiting consistently focuses on the job seeker. The persona principle makes this possible. Prototypical target group representatives create a better understanding of the applicants and help with targeted marketing and job advertisements that are formulated to the point. Candidate personas make customer-centricity in recruiting possible and thus facilitate the search for personnel. What customer-centricity in recruiting means, where the term comes from, what candidate personas are, why they have to be data-based, and how you can create them yourself - all this is revealed in this practical guide with examples and immediately applicable checklists.