Consumers can get overwhelmed with choices, whether it’s on a dating app or a toothpaste aisle. And, so can job seekers, especially with more of those choices being pushed at them daily. Shannon Marie Gaydos, Boeing’s senior global talent strategist,…
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Embed Code Basics for Your Careers Site
The candidate experience can be greatly enhanced through embed codes that pull in unique content and tools like chatbots, Spotify playlists, Instagram feeds, and more. In fact, you almost certainly already have an embed code live on your career site…
A Smart and Simple Way to Share Culture
We’re all looking for free, simple ways to share our culture with prospective talent. Toast has found a unique way to build its employer brand: through a Spotify playlist hosted on its career site. A music playlist is an easy asset to…
Montage Acquires Video Interview Competitor
GreenJobInterview, an early entrant in the video interview arena, is being acquired by Montage, one of its two leading competitors. No financial details were disclosed in this morning’s announcement, which also included news that Montage had closed an $8 million funding round…
Talent Acquisition’s Biggest Challenges in 2017: Jeremy Eskenazi
The first in a new series, talent-acquisition consultant Jeremy Eskenazi talks about the biggest challenges he’s seeing recruiting departments face in 2017. Included in the short video below: What some talent-acquisition departments think, sometimes wrongly, about outsourcing The need to…
Louisville Police Out With Slick Recruiting Flick
Out of Louisville comes a police recruiting video (below and also at this link) that for a few seconds may make you feel like you’re watching a Hollywood war movie. Posted on Facebook yesterday, “Help Us Keep Our City Safe” has…
Is Twitter Dead for Recruiting?
The business media love to talk about Twitter, particularly regarding if and when it’ll be bought out. It’s the greatest-ever source of up-to-date information. Then again, most users don’t tweet much or even use it much. So what’s to become of…
This Career Site Video Doesn’t Start the Way You Might Expect
Ingram Micro — who you might remember — is out with a new recruiting video that starts out, well, not much like a recruiting video. Unlike a lot of career site/YouTube recruiting videos, this one begins with people doing the things…
Here’s a Great 3 Minutes of Insider Tips About New Orleans From Charles Handler
If you’re going to ERE’s fall conference in New Orleans, you’ll love this video. Charles Handler, who made the video, is a long-time ERE speaker, writer, I/O psychologist, and expert in the assessment field. By the way, if you’re thinking, “wait…
How Talent Advisors Influence with Data Insights
In a recent post, Rob McIntosh noted that talent acquisition leaders want their recruiters to “turn up differently” today and he went on to identify a number of behaviors that are critical if this is to happen. I want to…
This Minute-and-a-Half Video From a Recruiting Tech Vendor Does Not Look Like All the Others
You’ve gone to the websites of various companies selling recruiting and HR technology tools, and watched the videos about “how it works” and “about us” and “our story,” and they go something like this: Hiring is broken. Companies spend millions…
Aussie Navy Asking: ‘What Will You Bring?’
Australia’s Defence Force Recruiting has launched a recruiting campaign on TV and elsewhere, with a “What Will You Bring?” theme. The idea is that by appealing to people who can bring a wide variety of skills and interests to the Navy, they’ll…
Now Hiring: Someone Young and Hungry and Eager to Learn
Employers want someone with a fire in their belly — full of energy and hunger, eager to learn and adapt. And therefore … young? But why young? Is youth really required for someone to be energetic? Krista Bradford of The…
An Airline You’ve Barely Heard of Needs Pilots Like Others Need Techies
Republic Airways, an airline you may have flown on without even realizing it, needs pilots badly. So badly, it’s restructuring the company partly due to the skills shortage. Talent Acquisition Leader Jody Scott talks about what her team is doing about…
Oh, the Talent You Could Get if Everyone Could Work From Anywhere
You’ve got a great candidate for the job. But, they’re in the wrong city. The manager wants them in the office. You, the recruiter, don’t think it’s necessary. At Pathable, that ordeal doesn’t go on. That’s because the whole company…
Maury Hanigan Has Something to Say About That Stock Photo on Your Career Site
If you want to attract minorities to your jobs where minorities are under-represented, make sure you feature them — as opposed to a bunch of homogenous photos — in your recruitment marketing and career site. Actually, not so fast, says…
They Love Raleigh
Quite a few people told me they loved that Air New Zealand video. You’ll love this one too — though it couldn’t be more different. A Red Hat employee who’s on the “customer experience and engagement” team wrote and produced a song about working…
Recruiters Should Be ‘Business Partners.’ What Does That Mean?
Being a “business partner”: It’s often talked about in human resources and recruiting, but what does it mean? Joanne Rencher, chief people officer at the Girl Scouts of America and a speaker at ERE’s conference for talent-acquisition leaders this April, gives her…
The Video That Makes You Want to Be a Flight Attendant
Air New Zealand, recipient of a 2014 ERE Recruiting Excellence Award for the best career website, is out with a new recruiting video, and if you’re looking for a lot of footage of flight attendants with passengers on airplanes, you won’t…
Find Out What Happened With Zappos and Its ‘No Job Postings’ Thing
Remember that whole thing about Zappos getting rid of job postings, unveiled on ERE.net via a post by then-talent-acquisition-leader Michael Bailen? If you wonder whatever happened with that, your answer’s in the video below, with Rick Jordan, talent acquisition head…