Recruiting Advice From Katrina Kibben.

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    Candidate Generation and Nurturing

    There's a fine line between creative and creepy. Know how I know? I did a Super Bowl campaign. (Also because I have a sense of humor, but that's not the point.) The campaign was called "The Fiddling Beaver." (1/3 of you just started giggling.) So, the beaver is going to find his dream job. He […]

    Enough with the ninjas already! They're bad for your employees and your search traffic. Here's why.

    If over half of the Fortune 50 have stock photos on their career site, you probably do too. But do these photos really matter for candidate conversion?

    You can use assessment in nontraditional ways to enable people across your company to recruit where they shine: when they speak.

    “I don’t know what Tweeter is, but I think you’ll be good at it.” Famous last words from my CMO at VisualCV. This was in 2009, just two years after Twitter launched. The audience was mostly marketers trying to see if this thing was worth their time and bloggers trying to get someone to listen. […]

    3 ways your company should be using personalization for recruiting content.

    You need to write your employer brand with your actions, not your blog posts. And with all the no's we have to say in talent acquisition, we're missing an enormous opportunity to do good and be kind.

    Recruiters have to turn to new talent pools for tech talent, even if they're young.

    How do you think a kid who has used an iPhone since he was 3 is going to react to your clunky recruiting process?

    Trust, more than anything, is the ultimate hack in recruiting. That and more from my interview on the NurtureIt show.

    Bad recruiting outreach starts with a terrible subject line. Skip the headache. Here are 3 of my go-to subject line strategies to get candidates and leads to open my emails.

    Every recruitment marketing strategy should start with one thing: listening. Here's where you can find those conversations.

    Who cares what recruiting competitors are doing? You should care.

    Why you need to hurry up and make a mobile recruiting solution happen.

    Mobile recruiting faux pas and candidate experience expectations.