Services
Public Relations

Industry
construction

Carolina Sunrock is a leading privately-owned construction materials supplier that produces aggregates, recycled aggregates, hot mix asphalt and ready mixed concrete, and is a heavy highway contractor and asphalt paver. Sunrock has struggled in the area of talent acquisition. With 60 open positions for a variety of jobs and an insufficient pipeline, effective recruiting had become a dire need. Due to a lack of skilled labor, Sunrock was losing 10 to 20 percent of its overall business. Sunrock hired S&A Communications to help tackle this challenge and develop and execute a marketing plan designed to recruit qualified employees for Sunrock.

• Conducted deep-dive interviews, identified key challenges and target personas, and developed strategic marketing plan to attract potential employees to Carolina Sunrock
• Planned and executed three Carolina Sunrock dedicated job fairs
• Created advertising and promotional content to describe positions, locations and other key facts designed to influence prospects to apply
• Conducted media outreach; developed and distributed press releases and calendar postings
• Evaluated and placed multi-media buys to advertise events
• Produced and broadcasted radio commercials through multiple stations to strategically reach the specified target audience
• Developed landing page to encourage attendees to pre-register
• Developed collateral materials to promote the job fair event and open positions to prospective employees through paid advertising and grassroots initiatives
• Reviewed and evaluated client and competitor social media channels
• Provided customized social media coaching. Conducted educational session with managers and team members on social platforms, demographic statistics, social media overview, positive messaging to influence brand awareness, content examples, and how to monitor social media engagement. Created Carolina Sunrock Facebook page.
• (Unique to job fair #3) Created Facebook event page, Facebook ad campaign content creation and graphic design, development and implementation.
• Targeted audience based on location, age, interests, field of study, employment status, job tiles, and industry
• Implemented a two-week highly targeted Facebook advertising campaign to drive traffic to Facebook event page and job fair landing page.

• Sunrock’s Facebook ads reached 54,000 prospects, generated 559 event responses, 4,685 link clinks and 7,242 post engagements.
• Sunrock gained over 200 Facebook followers
• Attendance doubled from previous job fairs
• Over 130 applicants pre-registered for the job fair on the landing page
• S&A Communications received a Hermes Gold Award for social media campaigns for this project