Candice Thompson
Recruitment Marketing · Employer Brand

Talent attraction
marketing leader.

Enterprise recruitment marketing built on measurement — multi-channel media, employer brand activation, and full-funnel attribution connecting spend to hire.

Selected client work

Evidence with context.

Four enterprise engagements show the work across governance, technical activation, employer-brand content, and performance diagnosis. Claims are limited to documented source material or explicitly qualified practitioner-reported scope.

01 — Lowe’s · Enterprise governance

From Weekly Reporting to Spend-to-Hire Attribution

Approximately 70,000 weekly reporting rows across 25 fields were standardized and connected across media, candidate experience, ATS, and BI systems—moving Lowe’s from click-and-apply proxies to governed spend-to-hire visibility across a complex, seasonal enterprise portfolio.

~70K source rowsWeekly reportingSpend-to-hire visibility
Prior agency work · ShakerView technical case →
02 — Tractor Supply Company · Connected activation

IT Talent-Marketing Strategy & Activation

Led Tractor Supply Company’s IT talent-marketing strategy and activation, translating hiring goals and market competition into a three-tier media plan spanning programmatic job distribution, SEM, display, LinkedIn, and employer-brand content; coordinated SAP feed, ATS source-code, pixel QA, creative approvals, and vendor cutover.

Three-tier media planSAP · ATS · Pixel QA$7.5K–$24,988 monthly scenarios
Prior agency work · ShakerView technical case →
03 — Tractor Supply Company · Employer brand

Glassdoor Content & Executive Candidate Narrative

Owned defined employer-brand content workstreams within Tractor Supply’s Glassdoor refresh, including its Brentwood employment narrative and an executive candidate message connecting company direction, culture, and candidate expectations.

Owned-channel governanceBrentwood narrativeExecutive candidate message
Prior agency work · ShakerDefined content ownership

Named client references identify prior agency work completed while Candice was employed by Shaker Recruitment Marketing. Client and specialist teams implemented within their systems; Candice led client strategy, requirements, cross-functional coordination, validation, and governance. Confidential source files are not published.

$16.3M
Annual recruitment-media investment under strategy and governance
13+ yrs
Talent attraction specialization
7+
Direct reports plus matrixed creative, media, analytics & tech teams
20yrs
Advertising, revenue growth & client strategy
About

Measurement first.
Media second.

Candice Thompson is a recruitment marketing and employer brand leader with 13+ years in talent attraction and 20+ in advertising and client strategy. Most recently, as Senior Client Consultant at Shaker Recruitment Marketing, she led strategy and governance across $16.3M in annual recruitment-media investment for Fortune 50/500 clients across retail, supply chain, technology, and logistics—leading a seven-person team plus matrixed creative, media, analytics, and technology functions.

For Lowe’s, she led the transformation of approximately 70,000 weekly source rows across spend, campaigns, requisitions, geography, clicks, and applications—standardizing and connecting media, candidate experience, ATS, and BI data to create governed spend-to-hire visibility.

Recognition

Promoted to Senior Client Consultant following a 4.0/4.0 year-end performance rating—“Sets a new standard”—with manager recognition after five months with the firm for enterprise client leadership, partnership expansion, RFP navigation, and knowledge sharing among senior leadership.

Reviewer feedback also identified her enterprise account leadership, internal knowledge sharing, and prior capacity-building experience as strengths to extend through broader team development and book-of-business growth.

Today she runs Thompson & Co Collective, a talent attraction consultancy serving mid-market to enterprise organizations.

Certifications

  • Google Ads Search Professional
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Privacy for Agencies & Partners
  • Certificate, Digital Marketing Science — UNC Charlotte