Reading Time: 5 minutesAre you considering implementing a four-day work week? If so, you could make your team very happy: 85 percent of U.S. adults approve of moving to a four-day week. 78 percent of employees who have transitioned to a four-day week say they are happier and
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: 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: 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: 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis 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 minutesWhy an unlimited vacation policy doesn’t work, and how progressive companies are implementing this alternative that give employees real, quality time off. First, we were on a hamster wheel of busyness. Then, the pandemic rocked and ruined our lives. And now, we’re languishing and recovering