Something wonderful can happen – a solid, positive employer branding strategy. The collaboration between marketing and Human Resources leadership can yield some pretty powerful returns. Increased innovation, productivity and quality of execution are just the tip of the iceberg when these traditionally siloed departments breakdown the walls and start collaborating.…

Most job listings are dull and underwhelming. That’s not been an issue in the last few years when it’s been essentially a buyer’s market. But today, when talent is increasingly in demand, what is the response to a ho-hum job ad?  Dead silence. Your candidates are going on to the next job listing. Meanwhile, a good chunk of your budget is sitting in career site spend and job…

There is a driving similarity between us marketers, HR managers and recruiters: Every single one of us has been a job candidate.

We’ve been the active candidate, constantly pursuing and looking. We’ve also been the passive candidate, researching the companies we like and waiting for the right role to come our way from a referral or sending a resume out on a…

Turning Your Organization Upside Down- excellent blog post by Jim Clemmer about running a successful organization.

1. Go to https://imgflip.com/memegenerator
2. Scroll down past the creator to All Memes. Here you can see the most popular memes created recently and also see some of the available images. Another option? Just type a phrase into the search bar or upload your own.
3. To upload your own meme image, save…

I love a good meme. For the web savvy out there, I’ve been a meme aficionado since the Know Your Meme segment used to play on the Rocketboom. The flood of memories whether we’re talking about Bubb Rubb and his whistle tips, the…

This post was originally posted on the SmashFly Blog.

In the next week, organizations across the world will experience one of the most impactful search updates in our lifetime (so far). But what does this Google algorithm change really mean for recruiting organizations? Here’s a quick…

OFFICIAL RECRUITINGDAILY, LLC MEME CONTEST

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AKA - Our stab at being legal and legitimate.

CONTEST TIMELINE

Contest officially begins when we post the blog on RBC and all entries must be submitted by Friday April 17^th at 5PM EST. Winners will be announced Monday, April 20^th at 4:20ish PM EST.

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While there is a wide spectrum of people looking for a job and potentially interested in changing their life for you, let’s break them into two camps: people who need to do a lot of research before they apply and people who don’t. Let’s call these groups “shoppers” and “button-clickers.”

Button-clickers believe that a job search is a numbers game: the more jobs they apply to, the more the odds go up of getting an interview and finally an offer. Sure, they believe in…

As soon as you drop some words in a job interview a light bulb can spring from nowhere and give a signal to the interviewer that you are already not the right person...every word counts!

I've gotten three calls in the past two days from people with very thick Indian accents claiming that I have been indicted for tax fraud and that it is a "non-bailable charge" which will result in me being jailed if I do not pay quickly. This is a prevalent scam these days, which the IRS has warned the public about.

Apart from the fact that I my Dad works with the IRS, (he has a special license to practice tax accounting defense in front of the IRS that most accountants don't have), I…

In the human side of things we regularly hear about medical conditions that can result in death yet we can overlook their presence because they are asymptomatic.  The condition is present but unless a series of diagnostic tests are performed the patient never knows the problem exists.

Our organizations are no different. Every corporation has hidden in its processes; there are every day non-value added activities that serve no customer demands.  Which serve no benefit to the…

How to source on the lesser known sites!! indeed

Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine, were you can search for jobs or candidates.

Indeed is well known in the community but few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without

worry you need go no  further than into your bag of…

Recently a co-worker told me about one of his hiring managers.  This leader wanted to see industry profiles of talent that could potentially meet the future needs of the organization.  Having limited information around the attributes, skills or experience needed for this exercise and armed with several target companies. My colleague worked for a few…

Spoiler Alert: If you aren’t current on Game of Thrones, go catch up and come back :).  (How are you not up to date anyway?!)

Game of Thrones Season 5 is coming this Sunday, and at SmashFly we’ve been counting down the days. The season preview looks pretty epic, and for someone who’s opted for the TV series vs. the (extremely verbose)…

The career landscape of today is no longer that of a smoothly paved road, lined with blooming flowers and rolling fields of green grass while sunshine beams overhead. Rather, it's more of a bumpy cobblestone road, littered with potholes and giant human-eating plants looming about a la "Little Shop of Horrors." One of the necessary evils that comes along with…

“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” – Jack Welch

It is always difficult to find someone that will fit your workspace, company, and the whole organization. And it is very hard to keep them. You should do some right things for that. You should have some specific knowledge to recruit and retain all the talented people you need. So, here you have few main tips to do that.   …

Human Resources is still an invaluable pillar of any business venture, but the sentiment that it’s unnecessary is definitely out there. HR can feel like a minefield of byzantine bureaucracy, where something as simple as changing the…