Reading Time: 7 minutes COVID-19 changed the employment world for nurses and other healthcare industry team members, seemingly overnight. However, what has not changed is a critical, long-term need to attract the best nursing talent. Nurse Appreciation Week is May 6-12, and the World Health Organization named 2020
Reading Time: 11 minutes I have been a member of the remote workforce and a parent who works from home since 2009. I’ve worked from home as a mom of babies, toddlers, preschoolers, big kids, sick children. It has never been as difficult as parenting and working during COVID-19.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Stories Inc. co-founder Scott Thompson shares his core beliefs on leadership during crisis, and why doing everything possible to avoid layoffs is of utmost importance. Watching the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 unfold—from my then perspective as a second-year MBA student—made a lasting impression on
Reading Time: 10 minutes Social media and employer brand have an important relationship during, and in the transition out of, the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece is part of Stories Inc.’s ongoing series on crisis communications for employer brand and recruitment marketing leaders. We don’t know exactly how long the
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are so many amazing stories happening at workplaces during the pandemic that candidates and team members will want to know about. Capture your employee stories during COVID-19 right now. You can share them with candidates later. One of my favorite writers and thinkers, Tim
Reading Time: 8 minutes Here’s why a COVID-19 information hub is valuable for your candidates, customers, employees, and employer brand. It has now been over a month since COVID-19 was declared a national emergency in the United States. Talent professionals, in just one month you have accomplished a lot.
Reading Time: 6 minutes COVID-19 is causing us to change the ways we find and share stories. Currently, all of us in employer brand and recruitment marketing are rethinking our approaches to content creation and promotion. The way we produce content is also changing. With the move to remote
Reading Time: 7 minutes Last week, the Talent, Leadership, and Marketing Book Club read Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. One quote particularly resonated with the group: “Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.” This quote from Brené was a much-needed reminder that empathy and clarity go hand in hand.
Reading Time: 6 minutes An organization’s core values only have power when – and to the extent that – the humans in and around the organization feel a connection to them. When human values and organizational values overlap for employees, that’s when they are truly connected to their workplace.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Why companies should choose a long-term view over short-term wins With the COVID-19 crisis causing shocks to peoples’ health and to our economy, it’s easy for companies to lose sight of the long view in favor of short-term wins. But the companies that maintain a
Reading Time: 10 minutes Public relations and traditional marketing experts are using their crisis communications best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recruitment marketers, likewise, should be employing crisis comms strategies to best communicate to candidates their organizations’ response to the virus, and how it impacts candidates considering your company
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jill Shabelman talked to health strategist and employee wellness expert Gus Turner, and he provided tips for companies to improve employees’ well-being. There is a silver lining to the challenges we’re facing as the coronavirus upends work, school, and plans. Social media feeds are exploding