Because the U.S. workforce ages, worker shortages are spurring intense competitors for employees. The U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs Veterans Well being Administration (VHA), the nation’s largest built-in well being care system serving some 9 million veterans, was feeling the squeeze. It was crucial to maintain the system’s amenities absolutely staffed with an efficient recruitment and retention program.

However simply assembly recruitment objectives wasn’t sufficient—the VHA needed to show its success to VA management. Aptive Assets labored with the VA to create the VHA Workforce Administration and Consulting (WMC) Annual Efficiency Report back to reveal how its advertising and promoting campaigns led to assembly VA’s hiring objectives.

The 41-page report options pictures of actual VHA workers and veteran sufferers. It highlights particulars like media purchases and outcomes, advertising methods and outreach, in-person and digital occasions, recruitment leads, consciousness of the VA Careers web site and extra.

The report showcases outcomes from VHA’s recruitment efforts. For instance, mixed advertising and promoting methods and ways contributed to 2,068,796 whole functions acquired in the course of the 2020 fiscal 12 months and 53,789 whole hires, a rise over the 49,409 whole hires of 2019.

The trouble additionally boosted VA Careers’ presence on social media. Its natural social media presence by way of Fb, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn elevated dramatically in 2020 in these areas:

• Messages: 38% improve (2,366 posts despatched)
• Followers: 29% improve (1,088,990 whole viewers)
• Impressions: 7% improve (23,587,623 impressions whole)
• Engagement: 53% improve (1,316,874 whole engagements)

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