Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week, I advised on the right way to ask about company culture. It takes the right question and the right answer—one that tells a story about the company that is truly unique to them. So here’s something that happened to us that doesn’t happen

Reading Time: 2 minutesA freshly pressed suit, shaky hands and resumes still warm from the printer: it’s interview time. Resume accomplishments abound, interviewers dole out polite nods and candidates recite well-rehearsed narratives. As the interview winds down, the interviewer says—“what questions do you have for me?” The interviewee

Reading Time: 4 minutesAt Stories Inc, we talk about company values all the time. We link major company decisions to our values and use them to guide our actions. Everyone on the team is welcome (and in fact encouraged) to take our core values to heart, or to

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecruiting and talent acquisition have grown beyond the bounds of identifying and evaluating people to fill empty roles. There’s an art to it—or a science, depending on who you are—that’s making us think that a better approach is recruitment marketing. Recruitment marketing is every way your

Reading Time: 3 minutesLooking for an employer branding content example? The way your organization treats its staff when life happens is one place to find great stories. When my son was born three months prematurely and out of state in 2008, we faced a real struggle in getting

Reading Time: 8 minutesThis is a guest blog post by Elyse Schmidt of SmashFly. Consumers interact with as many as 12 touchpoints before making a decision to purchase. We could say the same for candidates, who are more like consumers than ever. Candidates use social media, career sites,

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is a guest post by Jamie Nichol of CultureIQ. Any company can email out their core values and post them on their website. That’s the easy part. What is harder, less common, and far more important, is having values that actually mean something to

Reading Time: 4 minutesUpon reading the lengthy New York Times article that primarily blasted Amazon’s workplace practices, I’ll admit, I had my suspicions as to how true-to-life it was, at least on the whole. How could a company be so successful if it wasn’t doing right by its

Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst Round Review published a great article that examines a common issue these days: the lack of loyalty among engineers to the companies they work for. The article features Tiho Bajic, the CTO of Nitro, who explained that many engineers “are acting like mercenaries. They