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5 Articles that Will Make Your Job Posts Better

August 20

Writing better job postings is the best way to convert job seekers into applicants. It is also one of the most difficult parts of the hiring process. There are tons of resources available for improving your job postings: tips and tricks from HR experts, content-tutorials, and even straight-up templates. It’s all been done. Yet, the formula for writing engaging, effective job ads remains elusive! Making job ads interesting is hard, and I’ve yet to see a template make the process easier. These articles are not about writing “Rockstar” job posts. They are not written by HR pros... Or my parents (who are actually HR pros!) Nope. These articles are written by storytellers (Writers, marketers, communications experts). People who’s bread……Read More

Build a Great Team, Hire Like Great Recruiters, and More Great Things

August 13

Being great is a thing worth working towards, at least I think so! I hope you do as well because today’s link love is dedicated to the pursuit of greatness... First things first: “Start by admitting that greatness doesn’t come from the distraction and busywork that often fills up our lives.” - Click to TweetI pulled this quote from Leo Babauta’s article How to Be Great. When you’re great you can make all sorts of demands. Like David Lee Roth of Van Halen who used to ask for all of the brown M&Ms to be removed from his candy bowl. When you are really great, like David Lee Roth, you may even have valid reasons for making such crazy requests! Another reason David is pretty great: Warning: It’s lonely at the top! So sur……Read More

Boring Brands Win, Soft Skills, and Why You Shouldn't Try to Predict the Future!

August 6

Welcome back to Link Love Wednesday!Today’s links are human resources heavy, in the best possible way.HR is a complicated field.Not only do you need to understand complicated technology, track data, and navigate a maze of policy, but you must have the skills required to attract, motivate, and placate real live humans.Unlike numbers, us humans are emotional and fickle beasts, which is why excellent soft skills are a mandatory part of the HR job description.Soft skills are important for making smart decisions about how to invest in employee engagement, health, and happiness. And according to John Boudreau’s recent article, To Optimize Talent, Sweat the Small Stuff, these decisions have a surprisingly large influence o……Read More

Denny's Social Media Grand Slam, Women of HR Tech, and More Trello

July 30

It is Wednesday.Wednesday is international Link Love day.That fact is untrue, but it sure sounds good doesn’t it?Unlike that untrue fact the articles we’re sharing today not only sound good, but are well researched, informative, and not blatant lies… At least we hope not! Interesting thoughts on what makes a good hire in the age of social media by Ted Coine. “The Social Age is not the age of predictability and routine.” – Click to TweetFor this reason, Ted suggests hiring with an emphasis on both the applicants specific skill set and their general interests/capacity for curiosity.We suggest using social to reach this type of candidate!Denny’s certainly follows our advice… Okay, so I don’t technically know that they do, but they ……Read More

Personality Traits, Recruiting Apps, and Happiness

July 23

Personality tests fascinate me. I’m not talking the ever popular Buzzfeed what celebrity baby are you type quizzes here, although occasionally even those prove hard to resist! Nope, I am referring to those tests that claim to give you all of the information you need to choose your perfect career, make people like you, and just generally become more successful at life.So I couldn’t help but click when Trish from HR Ringleader posted an article begging the question: How Valuable are Personality Tests?Like Trish, I am also torn on the subject, and like Trish, I was curious enough to take the “Fascination Advantage” assessment that inspired her article.You can get a free promo code to checkout the test (it’s pretty short) at Jennif……Read More

Is Your Culture Flexible? Is Poor Engagement Hurting Your Bottom Line? Was Wolverine a Bad Hire?

July 16

We are halfway through the work week, well into summer, and, I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a reading break!I know it’s time to kick my feet up, grab a coffee, and pull out ye old iPad whenever I start getting super excited by headlines like “How Flexible Work Culture Can Make Business More Social”… Not that it’s a boring headline, but it’s no “Bat Boy cheats on Lobster Girl with her reptilian sister,” if you know what I mean?!But, without fail, come Wednesday morning I need to know all about how a talent hungry business wouldn’t consider an incredibly skilled and talented candidate, living in London – one of the world’s best cities in which to build a career because she needed a small degree of flexibility.If yo……Read More

Risky Hires, ATS Woes, and Icebergs

July 9

The internet is just bursting with fantastic content this week!From slick new apps, to recruitment basics revisited, to triangular infographics: this link love’s got it all!On Hiring, Recruitment, and HRThere’s a new report out from ADP’s Recruitment Quotient: Raising Your Talent IQ You do have to give them some of your personal info, but it’s worth it for graphs like this one:How is your ATS effecting your candidate’s experience? According to Andrew O’Brien’s article: Are Recruiters Taking the Wrong Approach to Applicant Tracking, not so good! “Just 16% of candidates think existing applicant tracking processes ‘work well.’” – Click to TweetMaybe it’s time to try something new? Like an app. Perhaps even an app that let’s you……Read More

Evergreen Jobs, Community Building, and FEEP

July 2

Hello and welcome to the first Link Love for July.It is going to be hot hot hot… Okay… Not really, but we do have some sizzling articles to share!If this blog post was actually that hot, then it would be NSFW. If this blog was NSFW, then you would have to read it outside of office hours which would cut into your time in the sun. Now that we’ve explained the lack of bikini clad HR pros and muscle bound recruiter dudes, it’s time for the links:“To win in the marketplace…you must first learn what makes your employees want to be in your workplace.”This quote is from a Switch and Shift article called The Employee Trinity: Engaged, Happy and Motivated, by Shauna Sexsmith. In the article she explains how to get the most fro……Read More

Video Recruiting Like a Pro

June 25

Engagement is one of the pillars of effective social recruiting.Likes, comments, and shares are the best way for you to get more eyes on your jobs, because much like with referrals, when your job post reaches potential candidates through these actions they are imbued with social proof.If a friend shares a job posting to your Facebook Page, even if they have no connection to the employer, it still seems more trustworthy than if it was sent by a random recruiter.Encouraging this kind of sharing from your fan base is difficult. They have friends’ engagement status updates to Like, news of Kim Kardashian’s latest adventures to comment on, and their latest Spotify playlist to share.In order to engage them, you must understand……Read More

Optimize Facebook's New Layout, Then Spy on Your Competition!

June 18

On Monday we went over all the new changes to Facebook’s 2014 Page layout.Some good, some bad, some sneaky!I think our post does a pretty good job of explaining the key changes, heck we even included screenshots, but in order to really get the most out of Facebook recruiting it’s important that you know how to use these new features to your advantage. Especially the “Pages to Watch” feature!Jobcast is a Facebook App so we live in constant fear anticipation of updates to the social network. We have to pay attention in order to adapt, and grow to best serve our clients. This means we follow a lot of great social media blogs (as Facebook’s explanations are never enough) that cover a diverse range of topics pertai……Read More

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