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The Stories Inc. Candidate Experience from a New Hire

Reading Time: 6 minutesCandidate 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

Use a Story Approach: You’re Always Original

Reading Time: 3 minutesGathering 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?

When Your Marketing Team Can’t Help Right Now

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post originally appeared on SRSC’s blog. A few weeks ago I attended the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference in Austin. In one of the earliest sessions, an audience member mentioned that marketing is often focused on consumer brand, not employer brand. How can she get

Why Tell Stories?

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post originally appeared on SRSC’s blog. When my partner Scott and I first started our company Stories Inc, we focused on linear storytelling and organizational history. A progressive People person we pitched said, “We tried that. We created a really expensive book about our

Using Retention Strategies in your Recruitment Marketing Content

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post originally appeared on SRSC’s blog. A few years ago I read 90% of employees make their decision to stay long-term at a company within the first six months. This really stuck with me. As a (former) talent acquisition manager, our team considered tenure/turnover an important

Technical Considerations

Reading Time: 7 minutesUsing video is very effective when attracting and engaging new talent. 55% of people watch videos online every day, and over 50% of marketers say video is the type of content with the best ROI. Good recruitment marketing video content shows candidates what it’s really

Better B-roll Makes for Better Videos

Reading Time: 5 minutesNo matter how much B-roll you film, you can never have too much. While people telling stories is ultimately what drives our style of videos, B-roll and graphics make them more engaging.  Working with your filming team on a plan for capturing better B-roll will

Focus on Story (or Stories)

Reading Time: 4 minutesUsing video is very effective when attracting and engaging new talent. 55% of people watch videos online every day, and over 50% of marketers say video is the type of content with the best ROI. Good recruitment marketing video content shows candidates what it’s really

Cvent and the Top 5 Things I Value in a Company

Reading Time: 4 minutesI am a rising senior in college, so where I want to work when I graduate is at the front of my mind. Entering the workforce out of college can be overwhelming, but it helps to know what kind of company to look for. In