Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about Hiring Veterans, Recruiting mistakes, employee retention, Talent Communities and polishing the process.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

Hiring Veterans: Why HR Pros can’t handle the truth by Tim Sackett (@TimSackett)

On Veterans Day, I wanted to lead off with this great post by Tim.  Definitely worth the read.

A Double Dare to Poach Employees by RJ Morris (@RJ_Morris)

Great post on why you should focus your time on creating an environment that encourages candidates to stay rather than trying to block other companies from poaching employees.

Help Identify the Dumbest Things Recruiters Do by Dr. John Sullivan (@DrJohnSullivan)

Always like when John goes into list mode.  Lots of great insights in this article.

Talent Communities – Who’s problem are you trying to solve? by Chris Havrilla (@Havrilla)

Talent Communities – Why they are more than just stagnant talent po... by Autumn McReynolds (@TalentMinded)

There has been a lot of talk about Talent Communities the last few months and these two articles hit on major issues.  Chris writes a great piece on a number of items you should focus on when thinking about building out aTalent Community.  Autumn focuses on the difference of a Talent Community from today’s Talent Pools.

Polish the Process by Ray Anne Thorn (@Ray_Anne)

Nice post by Ray Anne on why it’s important to do the repetitive work in order to succeed.

Hope you enjoy the list.  If you have any articles I should add to the list feel free to add them to the comments or send me an email at chris@smashfly.com or follow us on Twitter @smashfly.