Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week’s topics include favorite interview questions, things social media has forced you to do, habits of a successful social recruiter, another social media firing story, how to engage with customers online, US Hiring hits monthly high and a great list of career blogs.

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

My Favorite Interview Question by Sharlyn Lauby (@Sharlyn_Lauby) (@hrbartender)

Nice Piece on the her favorite question to ask in an interview. The best part is that there are a lot of great comments and other interview questions posted by other HR / recruiter folks.

7 Things Your Organization Must Do Because of Social Media by Augie Ray (@AugieRay)

Great piece on how social media and the internet have changed the way businesses interact with their customers and 7 things that you need to start doing today to embrace it. Has some great parallels that do apply to recruiting as well.

7 Habits of a Highly Effective Social Recruiter by Omwalle Casselle (@mysensay)

Great list of habits that your organization and recruiters must have to be effective in the social recruiting space. Numbers 3 and 7 were the two that really stood out to me.

Social Media Site Got Her Fired: Fair or Un-Fair? by Dawn Boyer (@Dawn_Boyer)

I linked to another social media affecting employment story a few weeks back. This story is even more intriguing. What are your thoughts on this situation?

To Truly Engage, Follow Up by Leah Woolford (@AdWeekDotCom)

Some great insights into ways you can engage candidates / customers via social media and on the web. I thought number 3 was an interesting point.

US Hiring Hits 15 Month High in March, Opening Up by ABC News (courtesy of @shannonbiggs)

It’s obvious that companies are starting to hire more but it’s always refreshing to see positive news stories on it.

Great List of Career Blogs (courtesy of @animal & @Sharlyn_Lauby)

Not exactly an article but here’s a great resource for HR professionals and job seekers who want to follow great HR / Career oriented blogs. Take a Look.

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.

About the Author: Chris is the Marketing Analyst for SmashFly Technologies. SmashFly provides a recruitment marketing platform called WildFire that enables companies to easily launch and more importantly measure the performance of all their recruiting campaigns online.