Attracting and recruiting top talent is getting harder and harder every day. Top candidates are either not actively looking or are being contacted by other companies too, making it extremely challenging to get a candidate’s attention and interest to apply for your company.

There is no company on the planet that shouldn’t use employer branding to help them attract and hire the best talent. That was my response when I was recently asked by John Sumser, Principal Analyst at KeyInterval Research and Founder of HRExaminer, to share my thoughts on whether there are

Talent acquisition has undergone a significant transformation in the last five years. With 76% of the online population now on social media, it has never been easier to find and source candidates online. However, the social web has also made recruiting more complex as candidates are becoming more

Did you know your career site is considered the most valuable resource candidates use when researching employers and job opportunities? After surveying more than 130,000 candidates from over 200 companies, the Talent Board found that candidates prefer to go directly to the source to learn more

Whether you are an early stage startup with zero recruiting infrastructure or you are a mid to late stage with a team of recruiters, we can all agree that the people you hire and how you attract top talent can make or break your organization. Even if you are not ready to build out a robust team of

Did you know 42% of job applicants who had a negative candidate experience say they would never apply to that company again? And that’s not all. 78% say they would share their bad candidate experience with their network. 34% of candidates would even publicly share their negative experience on

Last week we wrote about how LinkedIn's decreasing engagement, especially amongst technical talent, is making it increasingly harder to attract these candidates on the platform, and how having a multi-channel, targeted strategy to sourcing and talent attraction is absolutely key.

We think this partnership makes a great equation for building a modern recruitment marketing machine. Check out the post below by SmashFly's Director of Business Development, Lynne Foster, announcing our partnership. You can also read the original post on the SmashFly blog.

Let me first preface this article with this: Linkedin is a very effective recruiting tool. For many years it's been the go-to tool for recruiters and companies looking to hire talent, and at the moment, it still is. They've essentially killed the resume and put it online, amassing a large network