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: 2 minutesWelcome to the Attract/Retain/Engage podcast! Through our work, we hear tons of great stories and best practices of people-centric companies. We’re using this employee engagement podcast to share those stories and best practices with you. Companies with engaged employees outperform those without them by up
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: < 1 minuteWelcome to the Attract/Retain/Engage podcast! Through our work, we hear tons of great stories and best practices of people-centric companies. We’re using this onboarding podcast to share those stories and best practices with you. 90% of new hires decide whether to stay with a company
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to the Attract/Retain/Engage podcast! Through our work, we hear tons of great stories and best practices of people-centric companies. We’re using this recruiting podcast to share those stories and best practices with you. Grab your headphones and take a listen to the first episode (10
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
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Our purpose — To Help the World Invest – Better — really draws people to The Motley Fool,” said the Fool’s Chief People Officer. “Once they join us, seeing that we truly live our purpose is the biggest reason why they stay with us.” The Chief People