Editor’s note: This article is part of a series highlighting speakers at the upcoming ERE Recruiting Conference. Click here to view other articles in the … Read more
The Best Employer Brands Repel Talent
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series highlighting speakers at the upcoming ERE Recruiting Conference. Click here to view other articles in the … Read more
Are You Defining Your Employer Value Proposition in All the Wrong Ways?
If you’re serious about investing in your employer brand — which, of course, you should be — defining your value prop is an important first step. Yet it’s … Read more
The Three Minds of Successful Employer Branding
By now, you either understand the power of employer branding or you do not. If you are in the latter camp, I can’t imagine why you’re reading this, so I … Read more
The 5 Ps of Recruitment Marketing and How They Drive Great Hiring
Within the recruiting function, marketing should be king, because when assessing recruiting processes, I almost always find that the foundation components … Read more
Tom Hacquoil Says Many Recruiters Are Insane
Who’s Tom Hacquoil? Why does he think you’re probably crazy? Hacquoil is CEO of recruitment software provider Pinpoint. He recently gave a … Read more
Best of ERE: Elevating Your Employer Brand
Your reputation is everything. It’s a cliché because it’s true. To attract the candidates you want, you first must build the brand you want. … Read more
Will You Find Your Next Hire at a Soccer Game?
The Society of Women Engineers, the National Black MBA Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, the American Accounting Association. What do … Read more
Personal Branding: The Game-Changing Approach to Winning Trust
Building trust is crucial in recruiting. A personal brand allows you to win trust in scale. Last month, I spoke at the ERE Recruiting Conference in … Read more
Employer Branding May Be Destroying Your Recruiter Experience
I know what you are thinking. I am thinking it too. Not another employer branding article. Hear me out. My new “thing” is recruiter experience. My theory … Read more
Sifting Through the Cost per Applicant Data
Cost per applicant benchmarks are a great way to understand how your paid media is performing when you are putting dollars behind job postings. The folks … Read more
A Good Way to Waste Money, Time, and Attention: The 7 Most Common Reasons Employer Brand Initiatives Fail
The numbers are impressive. When you have a strong employer brand, you can see up to a 50 percent drop in cost to hire and up to an 80 percent increase in … Read more
How to Calculate Your Social Media Engagement Rate
You’ve been active on social media. You’ve invested in social-media marketing tools and social campaigns. But do you really know how to calculate your … Read more
Powerful Actions for Convincing Top Prospects to Apply in the Public Sector
In today’s highly competitive recruiting market, convincing public-sector recruiting prospects to actually apply for a job requires unique and powerful … Read more
Happy Global Talent-acquisition Day, Recruiters!
Happy Global TA Day, recruiters! (Celebrated each year, the first Wednesday in September.) Recruitment marketers like me celebrate your skills today! Let … Read more
A Job Seeker’s Environment Can Kill Your Pipeline
Job seekers are people. People get distracted. So, you have to ask yourself: “Are my recruitment marketing materials attracting and engaging job seekers”? … Read more
This Is What I Want to Know About a Job Candidate
If you’re reading this article right now, I’m guessing you’re the type of person who likes to consume anything you can get your hands on about TA. Anything … Read more
How to Make Your Employer Brand More Interesting, Credible, and Memorable
In Faux Employer Branding vs. Magnetic Employer Branding, I explored where many — if not most employers go wrong when they engage in what they think … Read more
Why Your Firm Has a Talent Shortage Explained (Bluntly)
Most organizations that are facing a talent shortage blame a variety of external factors, even though the actual culprit is the way their firm recruits. … Read more
What Law & Order Can Teach Us About Recruitment Marketing: The Audio Tag
Look around. How many people around you are wearing headphones right now? Have you noticed how many people are walking around your office with various … Read more