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How do you define "strategy?" Go ahead. I'll wait. It's a lot harder than you might expect. Now take the definition and see how it fits as your employer brand strategy. A little awkward? Here's the deal: it's very rare that any of us are taught "strategy" as a...

It's so much easier to work on and with the things we control. But… that's pretty limiting, isn't it? Especially in our jobs where we control almost nothing at all. If you want to succeed as an employer brand or recruitment marketing pro, the smart move is to ignore...

If your employer brand is the perception someone has about what it must be like to work there. where does that perception come from? More to the point, what can we do to influence and shape that perception? The answer isn't a campaign or a project, tool or seminar....

Freshly back from Talent Brand Summit an 100+ employer brand pros, I was struck by how much we talk of tactics, strategies, optimizations, tools and metrics, but very very very little about emotions. But people won't do anything until they feel something. So let's...

How much time do you think you spend on the tools you and your team use to source and recruit? Add in vendor demos and evaluation trials and internal conversations (not to mention budget conversations) and it adds up. But how often have those tools worked out? How...

Your custom-designed and unique-to-you recruiting process that you developed is 99.995% the same as everyone else's. When you do everything the same, you attract people who know how to pretend to be the same. Not only does that make it near impossible to understand...

How do you define "strategy?" Go ahead. I'll wait. It's a lot harder than you might expect. Now take the definition and see how it fits as your employer brand strategy. A little awkward? Here's the deal: it's very rare that any of us are taught "strategy" as a...

It's so much easier to work on and with the things we control. But… that's pretty limiting, isn't it? Especially in our jobs where we control almost nothing at all. If you want to succeed as an employer brand or recruitment marketing pro, the smart move is to ignore...

If your employer brand is the perception someone has about what it must be like to work there. where does that perception come from? More to the point, what can we do to influence and shape that perception? The answer isn't a campaign or a project, tool or seminar....

If you think your jobs is to put butts in seats, your job ends the second that your hire shows up for work. But that's old world thinking. We live in a world in which we are perpetually recruiting, not to join a company, but to be engaged at work, to join a project,...

You'd think offering candidates lots of choices would attract and close more offers. But that's not how it works. People think they want choice, but what they really want is certainty. Which means a recruiter should be focused on lowering uncertainty, not adding more...

In the spirit of the patron saint of filling resale shops, we ask what Marie Kondo can tell us about approaching our recruitment marketing and employer brand tactics. Show notes:Talent Brand Summit in Austin (Mar) :: ERE (April) ::SHRM Talent (April) :: Yello User...

For all the work you put into your employer brand, the most important part isn't leadership buy-in, creative tagline or campaigns. It has nothing to do with what you say, but everything with what you do. And that's the hardest lesson to learn. Show notes:Talent Brand...

I'm certain that when I say the word "woke" I sound like an ass, but the new Gillette commercial has really forced us all to ask ourselves, "how woke should and can my employer brand be?" And that's what we'll talk about today. Lots of shoutouts in this one,...

When it comes to employer branding, the last holdouts who refuse who play along with you are the ones who most benefit from it. Aren't we a crazy species? So how do you get recruiter's to embrace these new ways of thinking? How do you get them to change their habits...