Reading Time: 4 minutes “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day — unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.” -Old Zen adage As we’ve mentioned, our teammate Pam is taking a class called Meditation and Leadership through the McDonough Business School at

Reading Time: 5 minutes You’ve always known your internship recruitment strategy can impact long-term hiring goals. Now you’re really glad you invested in internship recruitment marketing for this initiative hiring season: according to NACE’s 2016 annual report, the intern-to-full-time-hire conversion rate is at a 13-year high of 61.9%. That’s

Reading Time: 5 minutes This year for recruitDC, we did things a little differently…and we volunteered our time to help the recruitDC team out throughout the conference, and we had a blast. The recruitDC team is entirely made up of industry professionals who donate their time to put on

Reading Time: 3 minutes We love articles here at Stories Incorporated. We read, retweet, and comment on them on Twitter; we send them to each other; we fall down rabbit holes of links and sidebars; sometimes we even write them ourselves. We see so many that jive with what

Reading Time: 3 minutes Recruiting 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: 5 minutes Job-seeking is not just about finding a job anymore. It is about finding the right job. Likewise, companies are finally starting to realize that recruitment marketing—putting a concentrated effort into attracting and hiring the right candidate—has long-term benefits that more than cover the investment. In

Reading Time: 2 minutes At Stories Incorporated, we spend a lot of time interviewing storytellers, and—while I think my memory is generally pretty poor—I find myself having an easy time remembering the stories shared with us. We love to turn to an article that explains why the stories we

Reading Time: 3 minutes Since we’re all about stories here at Stories Incorporated, I’d like to start off this post with a classic tale, one that’s been used in many a math and finance class: The Legend of the Chessboard. It’s a short but powerful story. “Interesting story, indeed,”

Reading Time: 6 minutes We recently downloaded and read Universum’s annual Employer Branding Now 2018 report. By the time we got through it to the end, we had one main takeaway: “Almost everything in here points to stories.” All of the trends could easily be developed and accentuated through

Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve all been there—watching a show on Netflix and clicking that familiar button: “Next Episode.” We assure ourselves, “just one more episode” (that happens to be the promise I break the most). I used to wonder if I had no willpower. Why couldn’t I just

Reading Time: 2 minutes Honesty about your company’s culture, and what a day-in-the-life is like in the role, is essential when recruiting for long term fit. I saw this first hand when I was a recruitment leader, working for an organization whose culture was in process (read: some growing