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
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
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
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
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
Faux Employer Branding vs. Magnetic Employer Branding
Are you engaged in faux employer branding or magnetic employer branding? When employers do the following without doing what is described in the rest of … Read more
Why Organizations Value Consumer Brands More Than Employer Brands and How to Change the Conversation
Universum’s annual list of “most admired” employers is out, with many of the usual suspects (Google, Apple, Amazon) topping the list. Not … Read more
Making Connections: Where the Candidate Experience and Employee Evangelism Intersect
Developing a truly effective candidate experience is an iterative process, but what’s constant are the connections created, fostered, and grown … Read more
How to Develop a ‘Glocal’ Employee Value Proposition
In 2010 I got a call from an internal headhunter about a potential job at Roche. “Head of Employer Branding.” “What???” I had been in recruitment for … Read more
5 Steps for Attracting and Keeping the Youngest in the Workforce
Your goal is to make your company indispensable to today’s “talentsumers,” who are consumers of an experience at work quite different … Read more
We Want to Tell Recruiting Stories as Well as Hollywood
Hands down, I have an excellent recruiting team, a team that is on the verge of crossing from excellent to the best in the business. We understand crossing … Read more
Walking Employees Downstream Improves Retention, Productivity, Recruiting, and Engagement (Part 2 of 2)
Implementing a walk-them-downstream retention and recruiting approach Part II of this two-part series focuses on implementing a “walking employees … Read more
The Lines Between Consumer and Employment Branding Are Blurring
As the talent field has made the shift in its employer-brand focus from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have,” there’s another significant trend that’s … Read more
You Might Pay People Less If You’ve Got a Great Employment Brand
Many of the most sought-after employers are able to pay a discount to their competitors in terms of salary, because they are compensating their employees … Read more
Total Wine & More Wants Job Candidates to Know It’s Not Your Typical Liquor Store
Total Wine’s reach now spans 193 stores in 23 states, as well as online sales in 14 states. The chain’s stores can be as large as 50,000 square … Read more