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 if recruiting top talent is your #1 priority, Lessons from Ben & Jerry’s, Fortune 500 social media insights, economic recovery on the horizon and listening to your employees.

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

Is Finding and Recruiting Top Talent Really Your #1 Priority? by Glen Cathey (@GlenCathey)

Great piece by Glen on how to invest in Talent Discovery in order to bring the right top talent to your organization. Also love the great list of questions at the beginning for recruiting organizations and companies.

Ben & Jerry’s Complete Rejection of Conventional Wisdom by Brian Halligan (@bhalligan) (@Hubspot)

Some great lessons from Ben & Jerry’s on how being unconventional and creative can help breed success in your organization.

How the Fortune 500 Use Social Media to Grow Sales & Revenue by Jaimie Turner (@Mashable)

While this is focused on sales & marketing, there are a lot of takeaways to be had with recruiting in social media (which is pretty much a sales / marketing function anyway.)

Early Reports Support Economic Recovery Hopes by John Zappe (@ERE_net)

Great news! These articles always get me excited! And you have to love the poem at the top!

A ThanksGiving Thought: Listen to Employees, they have answers! by Ron Thomas (@Ronald_Thomas) (@TLNT_com)

A great reason why companies need to create better forums to enable employers to share their ideas.

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.