The first episode of Shark Tank aired in August of 2009 and I’ve been following it ever since – mostly in syndication and mostly wondering “why I didn’t think of that?” While I love when passionate entrepreneurs land a big deal, it pains me to watch when people have not done the homework and get chewed up and spit out …
Building A New Careers Site? Here Are The First Steps You Need To Take
Let’s face it – your careers site could probably use some revamping. Heck, you may not even have a careers site to begin with; just a sad ATS page for candidates to land on when they click “Careers” or “Jobs” on your corporate website. No matter where you’re at with your current careers site, if you’re thinking of giving it a facelift, …
Word Of The Day: Recruitment Enablement
I recently left the recruitment space for a stint back in B2B marketing and what I walked away with was a renewed look of how we should be thinking about recruitment and the way non-recruiters should view their role. The philosophy of the team I recently left was simple – if you’re not in sales, then you’re in sales support. …
Source Smarter Not Harder With Marketing
I know what you’re thinking – “Another Recruiting and Marketing article.” I get it, we’re all aware of the relationship and similarities between Marketing and Recruiting. Most commonly, we hear about employer branding and how marketing can elevate those efforts. Well, that’s great, but we are ultimately judged on our ability to hire the right talent at the right time. …
Is Your HR Department a HR Center of Excellence? Find out!
Today at FOT I get to announce a new sponsor, Paycor, and I get to announce to our audience something really cool that Paycor is doing with the launch of their HR Center of Excellence (HR COE) site! It’s a must-see for sure! Paycor has 30,000+ SMB companies they work with and they were able to bring all of this …
WEBINAR: How to Make Social Media Buys for Recruiting – The Talent Acquisition/HR Leader’s Guide
Posting jobs on social media is the minimum — and in today’s competitive recruiting world the minimum isn’t enough. That’s why we here at FOT put together a webinar comparing, contrasting, and ranking the top social media platforms for recruitment marketing advertising. We cut through the noise and help you make smart recruiting decisions with your recruitment marketing budget related …
How You Can Leverage Account-Based [Recruitment] Marketing
Account-based marketing, or ABM, is the buzzword in the B2B marketing world right now, largely due to its efficacy in driving ROI. Simply put, ABM is a one-to-one approach of targeting specific accounts with the greatest potential to impact the bottom line through personalized content, compared to broader-reaching inbound marketing, which generates leads en masse. To think about ABM in …
The Future of Recruitment Marketing Trends
For the past two years, SmashFly has a been a great partner of Fistful of Talent, but I’m sad to say this will be the last sponsored SmashFly post. Smash (as I like to call them) won’t be renewing as an FOT sponsor for 2018 as they look to try some new avenues in marketing. That’s what great marketing does. …
The Recruiter Nation Live Hangout Series – With Jobvite and Fistful of Talent!
Our first hangout is at 1pm ET on Tuesday, November 14th Google for Jobs/ROI of Recruitment Marketing Spend! What You Need to Know to Look Smart!! REGISTER FOR THE HANGOUT BY CLICKING THIS LINK!!! If you’re a client or follower of Jobvite, you know the Recruiter Nation Live series. It started with the Recruiter Nation Live Conference in San Francisco last June, and continued …
“Post and Pray” Actually Takes More Work Than Recruitment Marketing!
I read a great post over at Social Talent recently, written by Manna Shah, titled “Why You Should Stop Posting on Job Boards, Now!” Shah laid out the workflow between going out on job boards and posting jobs, versus going out and specifically sourcing for the candidates you actually know will fit the opening you are recruiting for. Here’s the …