Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about veterans and how we can help them, HR outsourcing, the viral candidate, storytelling in business, Google pay raises and why Twitter Auto DM’s just don’t work.

Here are the articles our that interested us this…

When negotiating a contract candidate’s pay rate, it may feel like you are between a rock and a hard place. After all, both the client and the candidate are your customers. You have to make your client happy if you hope to get future job orders, and a satisfied candidate will likely turn to you for future contract opportunities and may even refer friends looking for contract work.

So where do you start? A common rule of thumb is to divide the annual salary for a comparable direct…

Pay-Per-Click Recruiting in Today’s Dynamic Marketplace

Mobile is becoming more important in recruiting every passing day. With more and more cell phone users choosing SmartPhones, mobile is quickly becoming an important part of any recruitment marketing strategy.

The question for most recruiting organizations, however, is to understand in what ways they should leverage mobile technologies to get the…

Lets paint the scene with a little fiction ...

Jane a Manager of HR for a prestigious advertising firm had finally been given the go ahead from the HR…

I wish I could find a lovely place to send job descriptions to die.

You know what I want instead? Job clouds.

Doesn't that sound lovely?

A job cloud is a lovely, puffy arrangement of projects and functions that need to be completed in order for a company to be successful. Job clouds can overlap across functional areas as the needs of the company change and the people in each cloud can change as their experience and education…

Many HR processes have been transformed in the recent past as the evolution of social media has given rise to new HR issues and methods. Traditional employee recruitment practices are now a small piece of a much larger puzzle. Placing an online or paper ad, networking at trade shows and other events, sourcing internal candidates, or gaining employee referrals – these are all still effective ways to accumulate potential hires, yet many of these have been affected by social…

Most everyone has heard the famous quote from Winston Churchill “Those that fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”. While this quote focuses on understanding the negative things in your past so you don’t do them again, I also think it’s important to look at the positive side as well. There is lots of information and experience from your past that you most definitely want to replicate and you need to be good at identifying these as well.…

Double and even triple-digit increases in demand year-over-year exist for all of the top jobs in the United States. As you speak with prospects and customers, it’s imperative you impress upon them the sense of urgency now required on their part when selecting and onboarding talent from your firm.

TOP 25 IN THE U.S.

Volume added in the past 60 days and the percentage increase compared to last year.…

Equipment maker Caterpillar, Inc., announced in its third quarter earnings statement that it has added 9,000 people to its "flexible workforce," according to a recent news release by Staffing…