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 why happy employees means good employees, the HR Tech Challenge, HR and social media , fun text messaging facts and an awesome opportunity via RecruitFest.

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

Happy Employees are Good for Business by Courtney Rubin (@IncMagazine)

Happy Employees are good employees. Who would have thought it?

The HR Technology Conference Challenge by Trish McFarlane (@TrishMcFarlane)

Some sage advice on how you should begin preparing for HR Tech as a HR professional. Great read!

HR & Recruiting Pros: Sitting on the Social Media Sidelines by Kathy O’Reilly (@kathyoreilly)

Interesting look into the adoption of social media into the HR industry and why some may be reluctant to get started.

14 Fun Facts about Text Messaging by AllTop (@AllTop)

Did a blog post on Mobile Recruiting earlier this week and these are some great infographics on how text messaging is becoming more and more ingrained in how we communicate.

RecruitFest: Learn from the Best for FREE by Jennifer McClure (@CincyRecruiter) (@UnbridledTalent) (@RecruitFest)

This is a really cool idea by RecruitingBlogs and something you should really take advantage of if you are not making up to Boston. We’ll be on-site so definitely connect with us there!

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.

About the Author: Chris is the Marketing Analyst for SmashFly Technologies. SmashFly is the provider of the first recruitment marketing platform called WildFire that provides companies and staffing firms with the best real time recruitment metrics for all their recruiting efforts online.