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 week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

Employers Think Vets are Great. They Just Don’t Hire Them by John Zappe (@ERE_net)

3 Ways that HR Can Help a Veteran – And Positively Impact their Lives by Lance Haun (@thelance)

In honor of Veterans Day this week, John shares some alarming statistics regarding Veterans and their job prospects once they get home while Lance offers a few ways that HR professionals can help these veterans and have meaningful impacts on their lives.

Outsourcing: How Much Should People Give Up by HR People (via @Monster_WORKS)

Interesting article that takes a look at what tasks / initiatives employers should keep in house when looking at outsourcing non strategic functions.

The Viral Candidate by Omowale Casselle (@mysensay)

Great post on how employers need to make sure their value proposition is shareable. In no other time have candidates been able to share their employment / recruitment experiences so quickly and easily with their personal networks.

Why Storytelling is essential for business leaders by Chris Grams (@FortuneMagazine)

Interesting read that discusses the importance of great storytellers within your organization. Creating content is great but it is no good without great compelling stories.

Google Raises: HR Best Practice or Still Searching? by Jesse Harriot (@monsterthinking)

Google made news by raising all employee salaries by 10% effective January 1, 2011. Jesse takes a look at the move and determines what other organizations should take from it.

Survey: Twitter Auto DM’s are UnWelcome, Diminish Influence by Augie Ray (@AugieRay)

If you have an Auto Direct Message for your Twitter, just stop it. Now we have proof it doesn’t work!

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.

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.