Anchor is England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, they are committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone.

Our BAU activity advertises care homes to prospective residents. More recently we have been running recruitment activity to help recruit people who would like to work for the brand. 

The Challenge

Anchor offer an impressive choice of housing, care homes and services at almost 1,700 locations and continue to grow, leading to a high number of staff vacancies across England.

Our objective was to raise the awareness of the Anchor brand as a trusted employer and to increase the number of applications across all types of vacant roles across the organisation.

Challenge 1: Increase awareness of the brand.

Challenge 2: Increase awareness of the jobs available.

Challenge 3: Increase the number of applications for each type of job.

The Solution

Space & Time proposed a multi-platform strategy across LinkedIn and Meta to reach a wider audience, while retaining demographic and geographic relevance through specific targeting across both platforms.

LinkedIn – this platform offers recruitment specific objectives. Due to the nature of the platform we chose to run a message ad where the people who meet the targeting criteria are all sent a direct message to their LinkedIn messages about the job from a person of their choice. This included an ‘apply now’ CTA. 

Meta – we set up ‘always on’ recruitment activity with a prospecting carousel which featured brand content about the benefits of working for Anchor, including stats like ‘9,000 people choose us’. 

The Results

LinkedIn:

This campaign delivered high engagement with 337 website visits and a CPR of £3.71 increasing awareness and traffic on the website of the brand as an employer.

From the targeting and the two variations of the message sent out to the audience 2,778 messages were sent and 72% of these were opened (2,002), which is very positive.

This content delivered a CTR of 72.07%, which is an 34,219% increase MoM and exceeds LinkedIn’s benchmark CTR of 3%. 

Overall, this strategy has increased awareness of the brand in an employer capacity, increased traffic to the site and therefore job applications. 

CTR increased by 34,219%

CPR was £3.71

72% open rate across all delivered messages

Meta:

This campaign delivered 136 recruitment goals of these 109 were ‘job applications’ and 27 were ‘register interest’, which is a very high number of applicants from one month of activity and was very cost – efficient with a CPG of £12.50.

Positively this campaign also delivered conversions for the brand in general alongside the recruitment conversions, with 23 ‘online enquiries’ and 9 ‘brochure downloads’ for the specialist housing available. These conversions combined delivered a CPG of £10.12.

Overall, this strategy led to both a high number of applications and conversions and increased brand awareness on what Anchor can offer as an employer.

23% increase in conversions MoM

109 job applications

Overall CPG of £10.12

“Understanding of the platform and the opportunities available is unmatched and we’re so grateful to have access to their knowledge. We’re using the platform much more effectively and approaching our attraction efforts with a working LinkedIn strategy that didn’t exist a year ago. The results speak for themselves!” - Rachel Horrocks, Recruitment Marketing Manager, Anchor