Recruiting Advice From Katrina Kibben.

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    My rant on why you need to just accept they're gone once your employee gives two weeks notice.

    Watch this 3-minute video to learn 4 critical elements of great blog posts for candidates and the golden rule of great career site content.

    We've vetoed "family" from your careers site. 

    Writing recruitment marketing isn't about flash. It's about clicking with candidates

    Most of the blogs on employee engagement and retention are about what you're going to get your people to do for you. News flash: Worrying about those things is useless.

    Here's the reality. Job post word count is all about candidate attention. You need to get it and keep it long enough to convince them to apply.

    By day, we’re told that “people are our greatest asset.” At night, we nod, we smile, we cry at home. What does it "greatest asset" mean anyway?

    We can stop guessing when it comes to job titles now. Job titles are one of the single greatest judgment factors for a candidate clicking on your ad, yet so many people are still posting "Manager 4." Why? In some cases, laziness. In most cases, we just don't know any better and we are tasked […]

    Our free job post workshop can help you learn to write better job postings.

    Speakers at events deserve to be paid for their hard work, period.

    It's one small typo between a shit and a shift leader, people. But we can get rid of a few words altogether, typos or not.

    See how returnships can benefit and build your intern program.

    This video will teach you 3 subject line templates and how to tell a better story in your recruiting emails that will get responses.

    Can you be a culture fit if you're also a culture add? What does all of that mean anyway?

    Why we're on YouTube, and why you should subscribe to our channel in the first place.

    This April Fools Day we're taking a stab at satire to create a few automated letters that shouldn't ever exist. 

    Manels are panels made up entirely of men, usually white dudes. I'm tired of them.

    I didn't follow any of my own advice when hiring. This is what happened next, and what I learned.

    Talent personas are the creative genius behind great recruiting strategies that attract junior tech talent.

    Advice for bringing kindness to the candidate experience with better communication.

    Don't talk to me about automation until I don't have to manually upload my work history after I just uploaded my resume.

    Modern talent functions aren’t addressing the harsh reality of our life. We're not talking about mental illness or mental health as part of our regular conversations.

    When did normal manners get left out of recruiting processes? Here's how to say thank you with tips to write better rejection letters.

    Most talent communities aren't communities at all. This is what makes a good talent community.

    I've never been more proud of Three Ears and what we're going to do next. Welcome, Dawn Burke.