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 questions that will help you hire better people, 3 ways to improve employee innovation, 2010 engagement trends and why we can't lose creativity!

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

10 Questions to Help You Hire Better People by Kevin Wheeler (@Kwheeler)

Nice piece on identifying the character traits you are looking for in potential employees and how you can display these in your organization.

3 Principles for Creating Innovation by Chris Ferdinandi (@chrisferdinandi)

Short but spot on piece about encouraging innovation within your organization.

2010 Employee Engagement Trends by Monster (@Monster_WORKS)

Are you engaging with your employees? Monster provides 6 ways to start engaging with your employees today. I really like number 2!

Blinded by Science by Steve Boese (@SteveBoese)

We talk a lot about recruitment metrics on this blog but it is always good to remember that is the creative recruiting ideas that make great recruiting organizations. Metrics are a great evaluation and validation tool for these ideas but creativity is essential.

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 enables companies and staffing firms to easily distribute and more importantly measure the performance of their recruiting efforts online.

The WildFire recruitment marketing platform offers every tool you need for your recruitment marketing needs all in one centralized solution including Real-Time Recruitment Metrics, Job Ad Distribution (job boards, social networks, SEM, email & SMS campaigns), Recruitment Opt-In Database, Recruitment CRM, Web Commercials / Micro-sites and Resume Sourcing services.