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

Reading Time: 5 minutes This post is inspired by a DisruptHR presentation we’re giving on November 6th (DC friends, get tickets here). Having a No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day didn’t stop when we reached adulthood. Sometimes, these days happen at (or because of!) our workplace. In employer branding

Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a guest post from Maggie Barr, Director of Content Strategy & SEO at AmTrust Financial Services. Thanks, Maggie, for sharing your experience and knowledge with us! With the economy booming and unemployment rates low, finding and attracting top talent can be difficult in

Reading Time: 4 minutes Psst: it’s employee stories. With the tight talent market and the swell of uninspiring content for candidates out there, there’s a real opportunity and need for all of us to get better at content and recruitment marketing basics:  Understanding our audience Creating content that engages

Reading Time: 5 minutes This post originally appeared on the SmashFly blog.  Recruitment marketers, we know you’re thinking about funnels that end in hire. But did you know there’s a different approach that can make your job easier and harder at the same time?  Yes, the infinity loop extends

Reading Time: 7 minutes As a new grad working in the employer branding industry, I can break my journey thus far into three stages. The first I fondly entitle, “Learning About What the Heck I’m Supposed to be Doing,” which consisted of a crash course on Stories Inc. and

Reading Time: 9 minutes Last week over 150 recruitment marketing and talent acquisition professionals took Philadelphia by storm with the goal of honing and expanding their social recruiting strategies.  When emcee and Diversity & Inclusion guru Torin Ellis took the stage, he didn’t talk long. He had just one

Reading Time: 4 minutes Scott and I were less than a year into building Stories Inc. and things were going great between us. And, we were delighted when we won our first large project, for The Motley Fool. We were even more delighted when we realized we could hire

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have a Big Birthday this September. So, I wanted to do something this summer that would shake up my life a little in celebration. I signed up for a marathon and convinced one of my best friends to run it with me. Except, I’m

Reading Time: 6 minutes At Smashfly’s Transform conference in Boston, keynote speaker Erik Qualman told a personal story from his early days as an author trying to establish his brand: For a photo shoot for one of his books, his team had the idea that he should wear Clark

Reading Time: 7 minutes A few sessions into EBrand’s 2019 conference, we noticed a pattern. Each time emcee Audra Knight introduced a speaker, she shared something she had in common with him or her. For some this came from similar experiences as parents; with others, such as Amgen’s John