Reading Time: 3 minutes Looking for an employer branding content example? The way your organization treats its staff when life happens is one place to find great stories. When my son was born three months prematurely and out of state in 2008, we faced a real struggle in getting

Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a guest blog post by Elyse Schmidt of SmashFly. Consumers interact with as many as 12 touchpoints before making a decision to purchase. We could say the same for candidates, who are more like consumers than ever. Candidates use social media, career sites,

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: 4 minutes This is a guest post by Jamie Nichol of CultureIQ. Any company can email out their core values and post them on their website. That’s the easy part. What is harder, less common, and far more important, is having values that actually mean something to

Reading Time: 4 minutes Upon reading the lengthy New York Times article that primarily blasted Amazon’s workplace practices, I’ll admit, I had my suspicions as to how true-to-life it was, at least on the whole. How could a company be so successful if it wasn’t doing right by its

Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the biggest factors in how people reacted to the recent New York Times article and the subsequent rebuttal was their perception of Amazon as a workplace before either piece came out. In marketing, a brand is much more than a logo, a tagline,

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the early 1970s, Bing Russell (Kurt Russell’s father) decided to move on from his career as an actor in Hollywood to establish an independent baseball team in Portland, Oregon. Portland’s long-time minor league team had just moved away, leaving a void that Russell hoped

Reading Time: 2 minutes First Round Review published a great article that examines a common issue these days: the lack of loyalty among engineers to the companies they work for. The article features Tiho Bajic, the CTO of Nitro, who explained that many engineers “are acting like mercenaries. They

Reading Time: 4 minutes The business world’s reputation is still reeling from the excessive greed that drove the economy into the Great Recession of 2008. Fortunately, though, there’s some hope, and it comes in the form of companies that place their mission above profit. For these companies, it just

Reading Time: 3 minutes One day, a loan officer at a bank that serves current and former members of the military received a call from a member in the Navy who was about to be deployed overseas the next morning. He was in desperate need of a loan before he

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been years since I conducted an exit interview. Pam and Ben’s internships ended a few weeks ago, and we wanted formal feedback about their experience working at Stories. I heard from one HR exec that exit interviews are the worst time to get real

Reading Time: 4 minutes I remember so clearly as a child sitting at the kitchen table while my grandmother talked to my mother, and as she talked she kept folding and refolding a paper napkin over and over again. Afterwards, I would try to fold it as evenly and