The employee brand is the image employees present to customers and other stakeholders. The process of defining the employee brand image and then motivating and empowering employees to project it to others is referred to as the employee branding process. Evidence suggests that financial performance as well as a sustainable competitive advantage can be gleaned when the employee branding process operates correctly. Despite growing interest in the field, the employee branding process has not been empirically tested. Hence, this article presents the results of an empirical study encompassing both an internal assessment of the employee branding process as perceived by employees and an external assessment of the employee brand image as perceived by customers. The partial least squares (PLS) method of structural equation modeling is used to determine the causal path to the employee brand. Nine out of the ten hypotheses are supported and the evidence indicates that the desired brand image is perceived by customers