Reading Time: < 1 minute Stories Inc. Believes in Two-Way Reference Checks When Hiring We at Stories Inc. have made an important and innovative change to our hiring process: two-way reference checks. We recommend this for improving the candidate journey. Founding partner Lauryn was the hiring manager to champion this
Reading Time: 5 minutes This year for recruitDC, we did things a little differently…and we volunteered our time to help the recruitDC team out throughout the conference, and we had a blast. The recruitDC team is entirely made up of industry professionals who donate their time to put on
Reading Time: < 1 minute Best Company Culture Videos There’s plenty of company culture videos out there, and while this isn’t the definitive BEST list, these are some of our favorites. Content Strategist at Stories Inc. We brought on a new teammate! Anna Lippe has joined the Project team as
Reading Time: 6 minutes What a week in San Diego! Conferences are always a great time for learning, networking, and sharing and EBrandCon in San Diego last week was no exception. While the conference did a great job capturing the entire employer brand lifecycle – think conception and research
Reading Time: 2 minutes We are experts at getting stories that communicate workplace culture. If recruitment marketing, employer branding and talent acquisition professionals can more accurately describe their employee experience, talent can make better career choices, and as a result our collective work experiences improve. (Oh, and this impacts
Reading Time: 5 minutes We attended the WorkHuman conference this week and heard from Simon Sinek. He gave a great presentation using concepts from his new book, The Infinite Game (coming out in October 2018). He spoke about courageous leadership as one of several requirements an organization needs to
Reading Time: 5 minutes My name is Kat, I’m the inbound marketing manager here, I’m 26 years old, and as of January of 2018 I had never once stepped foot in a Red Lobster restaurant. That is, until our very own Lauryn Sargent dragged me into one on our
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last December, Lauryn Sargent, co-founder of Stories Inc, took the stage at the RecruitDC conference to present on creating compelling and successful recruitment marketing content based solely on employee stories. Her presentation is chock-full of tips and tricks, but more importantly she shares the results
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’ve read any of our intern blog posts from previous interns here at Stories Inc, you know that it’s a pretty great place to work. I have worked here in Marketing and Sales for one year now. During my time, I learned so much about
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past few years, we’ve worked closely with Dell and their Employer Brand team to find great stories and create content to show what it’s really like to work for Dell within a diverse array of different talent and background groups, such as interns
Reading Time: 6 minutes Candidate experience. It’s a term you’ve probably heard thrown around in these parts a lot lately and in fact, if you search it now, you’ll have over 26 million results to search through, with some of the top results being answers to the simple query
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gathering and featuring authentic employee testimonials and stories is now a generally accepted best practice in employer branding content strategy and recruitment marketing content development. So if more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 use a story approach, will it eventually become a stale strategy?