#SRSC & EBrandCon

No one can deny that employer branding is a hot, hot, hot topic in HR & Recruiting these days... and it's no surprise, given those with a dedicated employer branding initiative are 250% more likely to rate their talent acquisition programs as being highly effective. So how do you build a better brand? You start with defining what 'success' looks like…

@CelindaAppleby @AllisonAKruse ok what’s the joke? “Spam should come out of a can and not a recruiter” #SRSC pic.twitter.com/OxXGO5sat2 — Andres Traslavina (@traslavina) January 31, 2015 Meaningful Content The conversation started with a question in a tweet from SRSC speaker Andres Traslavina of Whole Foods: "Does a job posting inspire you to engage…

“Without our team members, we're just four walls and food.” That's the saying at Whole Foods Market, where every employee that's hired is purported to have a DNA that matches the culture of the company. What would become "Whole Foods Market" began in 1978 by then 25-year-old college dropout John Mackey with a girlfriend in Austin, Texas; Whole Foods…

The answer to that question probably depends on who you ask. For Social Recruiting Strategies Conference Speaker and President of The Sourcing Institute, Shally Steckerl, the answer is a resounding "Yes, recruiting is broken" and what we know as sourcing needs an overhaul. So let's look at the facts, as reported in Jibe's 2014 Talent Acquisition report: Nearly…

(Part 2 of the "Gen Z" series; read part 1 here) When it comes to talking about strategies to reach Gen Z; it would be easy to moan, groan and gripe about "another post telling people what they need to do to appease an entire generation." It would be easy, but it would also be somewhat short-sighted. Generation Z's eldest members turned 20 last year…