Reading Time: 3 minutes Gathering and featuring authentic employee testimonials and stories is now a generally accepted best practice in employer branding content strategy and recruitment marketing content development. So if more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 use a story approach, will it eventually become a stale strategy?

Reading Time: 4 minutes For anyone who has traveled for work, you know that you rarely have the time to truly see and visit the places you are working in. So for every deep-dish pizza suggestion I receive prior to Chicago trips, scenic hike recommendations in New England, and

Reading Time: 5 minutes In our world of company culture, we often talk about fit, and how it is something to fight (and hire) for. A lot of it makes sense – if you hire someone who fits into your existing culture, their transition theoretically should be easier than

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post originally appeared on SRSC’s blog. A few weeks ago I attended the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference in Austin. In one of the earliest sessions, an audience member mentioned that marketing is often focused on consumer brand, not employer brand. How can she get

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post originally appeared on SRSC’s blog. When my partner Scott and I first started our company Stories Inc, we focused on linear storytelling and organizational history. A progressive People person we pitched said, “We tried that. We created a really expensive book about our

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post originally appeared on SRSC’s blog. A few years ago I read 90% of employees make their decision to stay long-term at a company within the first six months. This really stuck with me. As a (former) talent acquisition manager, our team considered tenure/turnover an important

Reading Time: 4 minutes Using video is very effective when attracting and engaging new talent. 55% of people watch videos online every day, and over 50% of marketers say video is the type of content with the best ROI. Good recruitment marketing video content shows candidates what it’s really

Reading Time: 7 minutes Using video is very effective when attracting and engaging new talent. 55% of people watch videos online every day, and over 50% of marketers say video is the type of content with the best ROI. Good recruitment marketing video content shows candidates what it’s really

Reading Time: 5 minutes No matter how much B-roll you film, you can never have too much. While people telling stories is ultimately what drives our style of videos, B-roll and graphics make them more engaging.  Working with your filming team on a plan for capturing better B-roll will

Reading Time: 4 minutes Using video is very effective when attracting and engaging new talent. 55% of people watch videos online every day, and over 50% of marketers say video is the type of content with the best ROI. Good recruitment marketing video content shows candidates what it’s really

Reading Time: 8 minutes Something I’ve realized in the past few weeks: working in employer branding has systematically ruined my consumer experience (exaggeration alert — while I was studying marketing in school I also used to say that marketing had ruined my ability to watch commercials in peace. In

Reading Time: 6 minutes This post was originally published on the SmashFly Technologies Blog. Whether you’re hiring a new class of summer interns, increasing your sales force by 20% every quarter or recruiting call center professionals all year, hiring a high volume of people for one type of position