Mindset shift delivers for Schwartauer Werke with 50% of hires coming from CareerFairy

With changing media consumption and changing preferences of a young generation making hiring tougher, Rike & her team at Schwartauer Werke turned to CareerFairy to reach young University students in Germany

50

% percentage hires from CareerFairy

107

Live Stream Registrations

74

Live Stream Participants

About Schwartauer Werke

Whether for breakfast, as a lunch break or a snack in between meals - Schwartauer Werke & it’s loved products have been around since 1899. Constantly thinking ahead and consistently developing their brands and products, Schwartauer Werke responds optimally to consumer needs and always does their best to guarantee high quality and unique taste.

Challenges

For the trainee roles, Schwartauer Werke team has seen the number of applicants going down over time. While they didn’t have to do much to get applicants earlier, this has progressively gotten harder with Gen Z.

With students not ready to travel as much as earlier, and with the brand not being as present in the young generation’s mind, the regular job boards & posting ads hasn’t worked as well as a strategy for them recently.

The channels where students consume information has also evolved and they realise that companies needs to keep up too.

CareerFairy pleasantly surprised us on the Live Stream day as CareerFairy delivered 60% more participants than we had originally planned for, with 1 out of every two interns hired last quarter coming from this fun event. Not to forget that I loved working with the team - easy, knowledgeable no-pressure conversations, where they helped me understand how we could take brand Schwartauer Werke to University Students

Rike Hildebrandt

Solution

In an ever evolving world for the young audience, Schwartauer Werke realises the importance of virtual hiring events. Especially in times when students want to get to know prospective employers intimately before they consider working there, Schwartauer Werke decided to work with CareerFairy Live Stream where they could reach a chosen target audience with the right message.

What was the topic of Live Stream they chose?

Einblick in unseren Bereich Produktentwicklung (Insight into our Product Development department)

Here's the link to the recording if you're interested

What was the Target audience that the brand wanted to reach?

While we started with a target audience of Masters & Bachelors University students in Germany, CareerFairy's platform optimised to particularly reach 4 specific audiences for Schwarteur Werke:

  • Food Tech students
  • Life Sciences students
  • Mechanical Engineering students
  • Business Administration & Economics students
Company Name
Schwartauer Werke
Company Size
1000+ employees
Profiles Recruited
Azubi
Countries Targeted
Germany

What students think about CareerFairy

I love watching live streams, especially seeing people from other teams, not just recruiters. It helped me to choose the best companies I then applied to work for. I am pretty confident one of them will hire me.
Sara Y.
Because of a live stream, I was able to score a lot of points during my job interview and finally got offered the job at HR Campus! CareerFairy is a great new way to get to know companies from the comfort of your own home!
Mario S.
The CareerFairy website is easy to handle. And also, the live streams are a simple and effective way to expand my network.
Naomi Lynn H.

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