Reading Time: 7 minutes To say that creating a healthy corporate culture is important is a major understatement. Recent research published in an article by MIT, Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation*, used data to prove what we already know: toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor
Reading Time: 7 minutes Start with one of these employee story content projects in your first 100 days in an employer branding job. (They’re also great ideas if you’re looking to shake up your culture content library and talk to candidates in new ways!) Employer branding and recruitment marketing
Reading Time: 6 minutes As job changes flood your feeds, notice that there have been more boomerang employees than ever before. Sometimes employees “boomerang” (return to a company where they’ve worked before) because the grass wasn’t actually greener. Other times, organizations and managers didn’t know what they had in
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reframe the reference check! Are reference checks dead? We say, “No way!” But, they are overdue for a revamp. Let’s look at them differently. First: Reframe When you can talk to a manager of someone you’re considering, it’s a gift. Stop treating them as a
Reading Time: 4 minutes As if culture communication and talent attraction wasn’t bananas enough right now, check out this new finding regarding job postings vs. employee story culture content: Employers are promoting more jobs, more frequently … but candidates are responding less. Rally Inside’s data analytics discovered this important
Reading Time: 5 minutes Stories Inc. co-founder shares her idea of reverse reference checks, in which candidates check the hiring managers’ references as manager. Great news. We decided to add a team member—YES! I’m recruiting again! I dusted off my tricks from years past (once a recruiter, always a
Reading Time: 6 minutes This winter’s TA Week — EBrandCon, SRSC, and Talent Sourcing Strategies — wrapped last week and Stories Inc. attended to learn, and per tradition, provide you with a substantive Talent Acquisition Week recap. We attended as many sessions as possible and took copious notes on
Reading Time: < 1 minute We created a video with team members at Stories Inc. for a very 2021 holiday card! In years past, the Stories Inc. team has sent our network a traditional mailed card featuring team member photography and artwork. This year, we used our Virtual Story Sessions
Reading Time: 10 minutes RallyFwd brings together thousands of recruitment marketing professionals for presentations packed with forward-thinking recruitment marketing strategies that level up employer branding skills. Given the recruiting challenges today, sessions focused on what employer branding and recruitment marketing professionals can do in 2022 to level up their
Reading Time: 7 minutes There’s a lot of energy and discussion around diversity, and hiring women-owned businesses as suppliers. But recent statistics show that they are not advancing or growing at the rate other organizations do. 3 percent of U.S. venture capital goes to all-women founding teams 17 percent
Reading Time: 3 minutes This 2021 Story of the Year is a leadership story that gets real. It shows that great leadership creates great leaders, and deconstructs imposter syndrome. This type of story works overtime: It reinforces your commitment to developing great leaders, while communicating it to candidates, too.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Your marketing department is slammed. But, YOU can create great recruitment marketing without your marketing department. Develop awesome visual content featuring real employees, and your talent acquisition, employer branding and recruitment marketing expertise. Here are some tips that will wow your audiences (and your marketing colleagues!).