Category: Measurement

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…

SEO, Applications and Recruiting: Podcast Interview

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217901205″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] In the latest episode of the Meshworking Podcast, I talk to Patrick Welch, Digital Strategist and Analyst. In an example of…

The Recruiter’s Guide to Inbound Marketing

Over at Recruiter.com, Matthew Kosinski interviewed Meshworking’s James Ellis about new data and insights surrounding the changing world of recruiting: So it makes sense that job seekers are…

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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….

4 Digital Mistakes Made by Recruiting Marketers

Mistake #1: Focusing on their social media audience size Have you bragged about how big your social media audience is lately? Maybe you’ve hit a nice milestone, like…

Recycle Your Content

Take a moment and think about it: You are spending a lot of time and money preparing, strategizing and executing some sort of social media plan for your…

Measuring Social Media in Talent Acquisition

This is one of those “Good news, bad news” situations The bad news first: there is no single number that confirms your social media’s ROI or denies it….

The Six Problems Content Solves for Talent Acquisition

I’ve always been a big fan of content. It keeps me informed. It gives me something to do on the train. It keeps me paying for cable. And…

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….

The Talent Acquisition Gym

The best digital talent acquisition tactics aren’t achieved once, they need to be repeated over and over. You don’t get fit exercizing once, you get strong and powerful going to the gym over and over. Welcome to the talent acquisition gym!

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.

We All Evolve: The Evolutionary Path for Talent Acquisition’s Social Media

Everyone in talent acquistion wants to get social media “right.” And because of that, many are scared into paralysis. But there’s is no right, only what’s good for your organization right now. Once you get involved in social media, you’ll quickly see that its an evolution and everyone you consider experts at it went through the same evolution.

Your Social Media ROI for Talent Acquisition

This two-part blog post defines the two different types of social media models talent acquisition can use, and the the KPIs that can be associated with each.

What’s The Most Important Page On Your Career Site?

If you think your homepage is the most important page on your career site, you are missing a huge opportunity to tell your brand story to a majority of your visitors.

Three Reasons to Go Responsive

Responsive web design is a framework that allows a website to work on large screen devices and small screen devices equally well. But since this advance in user experience comes with a cost, we’ve picked our favorite three reasons Talent Acquisition and HUman Resources should invest in responsive web design.

Dear HR, Your Analytics Are Lying to You

Those big numbers you see at the top of your analytics reports look, feel and smell like real information. But they aren’t. They are aggregates and averages, taking the raw materials of insight and throwing them into a blender and then hitting “puree.” What looks like information are really lies. And until you as an HR professional learn to think of them as segments, you’ll never learn anything useful about your visitors.

The Two Rules For Better Analytics

Do a search on Google on the term “better analytics” and you’ll see 232 million results. In Amazon, there are more than a thousand books that reference better analytics. In this age of “big data” (however you define it), we all know that we are sitting on huge stockpiles of data, most of it gathering virtual dust in some analysis tool because we don’t take action. 

Understanding your Hiring Matrix

At some point, someone has probably told you about the magical number: seven plus or minus two. At it’s core is the idea that the human brain, as complex and creative as it is, can only hold onto a small number of ideas at a time. You may know a million things, but you can’t think about them all at once, just between five and nine ideas at a time.