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
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’ve always known your internship recruitment strategy can impact long-term hiring goals. Now you’re really glad you invested in internship recruitment marketing for this initiative hiring season: according to NACE’s 2016 annual report, the intern-to-full-time-hire conversion rate is at a 13-year high of 61.9%. That’s
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis post was originally published on the SmashFly blog. Picture two journeys. Journey 1: You are a candidate. You research potential employers. You’ve updated your resume. You wrote that cover letter. And you went through a 20-minute-plus application process to submit your application. You receive
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStories Inc. Content Strategist, Caroline Kangas, gave a talk titled “YOU are a Recruitment Marketer” at DisruptHR Cleveland. Watch Caroline’s talk here:
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStories Inc. does not have a clock-punching work environment—team members are encouraged to take breaks during the workday, meet friends for lunch, etc. One day, Pam, a communications intern, spoke up and told Lauryn and Scott that she wasn’t comfortable taking breaks because she noticed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMatt, a business development intern, set an ambitious goal for how many meetings he’d be able to set up each month…and he achieved it! But, in bringing the quantity of sales leads to the next level for Stories Inc., Matt didn’t sacrifice the quality and
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Stories Inc. was engaged for a project with a very tight deadline, it was all hands on deck to make sure it got done. That included Heather, who stepped outside her role as a business development intern to learn a completely new technology and
Reading Time: 5 minutesCrowdsourced Employer Branding: Ericsson’s Tell Your Story Campaign Disclaimer: Ericsson is not a client of Stories Inc. We’re highlighting them in the following case study because they effectively used stories and personalized content to enhance their diversity and employer branding. Ericsson is transforming from a
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith the 2016-2017 NBA season officially underway, fans are waiting for several plot lines to unravel, not the least of which including how superstar Stephen Curry and his Golden State Warriors will come back from their devastating collapse in the NBA finals this past June.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesBy Andie Schilstra The Coolest Cooler: a 21st century cooler that actually is cooler. This cooler is one of my favorite Kickstarter projects. It is one of the most backed projects on the site, making it a really popular idea that thousands of people wanted
Reading Time: 5 minutesGovernment consulting companies face interesting employer branding and recruitment marketing challenges, especially when taking a real-story approach to building content. Because projects can be related to national security, employees can’t publicly discuss their innovative work. Also, forget sweet office shots—sometimes government consultants work in SCIFs