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The Two Ways Content Drives Recruiting (and How to Measure its Value)

If you haven’t already read how content drives awareness and engagement, take a look at some of our previous articles on the subject, including the proof that content…

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Measuring the ROI of Content: The Content Impact Index

TL;DR: The impact content has on encouraging prospects to apply is actually measurable, giving you a chance to show exactly how powerful and valuable your recruiting content is….

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What Content Do You Need To Recruit?

Obviously, your job descriptions – those 550-word jargon-rich and meaning-light blurbs – are not getting the job done. You can’t convince anyone who might be at all selective…

Twitter Super Powers for Talent Acquisition

Are You Tweeting Your Potential Employees Away? There’s no denying that I love Twitter. And I know a lot of you do, too. With 284 million registered users,…

Should Marketing Own Your Career Site?

Two years ago, I applied for a job at a very well-known retail company. I was applying for some web or marketing job, and I had to run…

‘Would You Rather?’ The Game that Talent Acquisition Plays Every Day

“Would you rather?” is the ultimate car ride game. If you’ve never played before, it works like this: One person dares another to choose between two equally horrible…

Seeing the Whole Picture of Digital Talent Acquisition

We spend so much of our time dwelling in the details, and in the tactics of getting our job, that sometimes we lose sight of the big picture….

Where Do Loyal Employees Come From?

If you have two candidates you could potentially give a job offer to, and they are similar in experience, age, maturity and education, is there some factor that would suggest that one candidate is more likely to stay longer than the other? 

SEO Still Matters

You might assume that we can stop worrying about SEO for talent acquisition and your career site. Wrong! Whether it’s all about lowering your overall talent budget or seeking higher quality candidiates, Google and SEO still matter. A lot.

Why I Hate and Love Resumes

A modern resume is like the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup, there for a recruiter or hiring manager to look at and discern the future. A resume is the loose collection of factoids of my career thus far, facts that I choose to show hiring managers trying to translate it into a useful understanding of who I am. That’s why I hate resumes. We pretend they are something they aren’t, and they end up being like kabuki theater: I show you what I think you want to see, and you look for what isn’t there.