Reading Time: 7 minutesWe asked Raj Suri, Employer Brand Strategist for Intel, to share his #StorytellerMoment in this guest post. If you’d like to learn more about Intel’s culture and open roles, visit here. Thanks, Raj, for sharing your experience! I left work for 2 months. During that
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecruitment marketers are often faced with the dilemma of determining which is the “right kind” of employee-focused content to use on company career sites, social media and in candidate communications. However, employee testimonials are not the best answer. Employee testimonials vs. employee stories While employee
Reading Time: 7 minutesTo 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 minutesStart 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 minutesAs 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 minutesReframe 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 minutesAs 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 minutesStories 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 minutesThis 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 minuteWe 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 minutesRallyFwd 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 minutesThere’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