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Why I Can Picture Life at Adobe
Due to my passion for employment branding, I often take the time to research different ways that companies showcase their brands. In my recruiting days, I realized how helpful or hurtful a b...See it...
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The Evolution of HR and Talent Acquisition
When I first started this blog back in June of 2012, my experience with HR had been quite different than what it is today. At the time, my knowledge came from textbooks and from working at small...
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Employee Value Proposition: Building a Stronger Employer Brand from the...
While I was in talent acquisition and HR roles, I was often involved in strategy development for candidate attraction and retention. I would help my team come up with creative ways to attract...
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Recruiters: How Deep Does Your Research Go?
Lately, I’ve somehow found myself in the position of an informal career coach. I’ve been assisting job seekers who have been off the job market for several years and who were overwhelmed and...
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2013 Reflections and 2014 Resolutions
Before I take my brief blogging hiatus during holiday madness, I felt that the last blog of 2013 should focus on reflection and resolutions. January brings us a new year and promises new starts,...
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What Questions Should You Ask When Considering Virtual Employment?
We hear a lot about the challenges organizations face when they consider virtual employees or telecommuting options. These challenges are even more predominate when discussing flexible work ...See it...
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How Video is Transforming Interviews
Over the years, I’ve seen the interview process transform into something proactive, innovative and sometimes creative. Within the last year, I had the pleasure of utilizing video for candida...See it...
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Recruiter Spam and Other Recruitment Fails
Throughout my career, I’ve been a sourcer and recruiter for various industries and positions. I’ve learned what works for each industry, new tricks and new tools to make the most out of...
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Flexibility in Leadership
Lately I’ve been having a lot of interaction with a variety of leaders, ranging in experience, function and more. I was impressed to see diversity in the ways they were able to successfully...
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Do You Have an Effective Onboarding Program?
A strong and efficient onboarding process can make or break the engagement of your new employees. Unfortunately, the onboarding process is often overlooked. How can your company ensure it’s...
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LinkedIn Mistakes Job Seekers Make
As an active or passive job seeker, the job market can be a bit tricky. Even more so, job seeking can seem intimidating when a seeker is constantly reminded of all the things they need to do in...
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Performing with Purpose
When reflecting on my career progression, I recall the early years when I first started working. I relied on delegated orders, would dutifully fulfill them and wait for new assigned tasks. I...See it...
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Why Sourcers are Crucial for Talent Acquisition
When I first heard of sourcers, I’ll be honest, I had no idea what their purpose was. The job duties seemed similar to a recruiter and I couldn’t discern the need to divide the role into two. It...
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Market Research Boosts Recruitment Strategy
Market research is an essential step in the talent acquisition process and, surprisingly, is a step that may be inadequately implemented or missed all together. During my time in recruiting and...
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Please Excuse My Brief Hiatus
I would like to thank you all for the support you’ve given me over the last two years. When I first started this blog, I never dreamed of the reach it could have and the opportunities it would...
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Simple Steps to Boost Your Employer Brand
As employment branding continues to be a trend in talent acquisition, more organizations are starting to see the positive effects of this, while others are sensing competitive pressur...See it on...
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The Importance of Accurate Interview Notes
Interviews have evolved. No longer do people go through one or two face-to-face interviews before landing a job. The interview process has become more complex, with variations of interview options...
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Employee Retention: Is Offering More Time Off the Answer?
Losing an employee can have negative impacts on an organization, even if the separation was initiated by the employer. Despite terminating an employee for poor performance or something else...
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Recap: HCI's 2014 Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference
While living in South Carolina, I obtained the majority of my professional development though social media discussions, webinars and networking calls. Although these were tremendous in helping me...
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Virtual Employment for Attraction and Retention
During the HCI event last month, several employers expressed the changes they’re seeing in employment trends. More employees and candidates are aggressive when attempting to progress in their...
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Branding and Communities: Finding Your Starting Point
Lately, I’ve had the opportunity to work on multiple projects that deal with employment branding and talent communities. I’ve come across some fantastic examples while performing research on...
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Creating a Culture of Wellness
Human resources goes through great lengths to ensure they’re selecting the right benefits provider that will offer the greatest options for employees. Although this has been a common benefit to...
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How Working at a Startup Could be Good for Your Career
While in college and early in my career, it was beat into my head that startups were not a viable choice as an employer. My peers and I were taught that startups were unstable and hard work. We...
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Recruiters: Pick Up the Phone
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post covering some of my findings during an independent research project regarding recruitment shortcomings. Mainly, my discoveries covered a multitude of faux pas...
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#UCFBizChat: Uncovering Company Culture through Social Media
A former colleague of mine recently reached out to ask if I would host a Twitter chat for her students at University of Central Florida (UCF). As a career center advisor, she was excited about the...
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Rediscovering Your Identity
Identity is a funny thing. We spend our time trying to distinguish it, both personally and professionally, and then spend our lives trying to build and protect it once we know what it is. Ou...See it...
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2014 at a Glance
Wow. We’ve made it through another whole year and it seems like they’re flying by faster and faster. As I take a moment to reflect on my personal and professional highlights of 2014, I’m reminded...
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Why Recruiters Lose Candidates
Being a job seeker again showed me the many ways the recruiting process has changed, for better and for worse. While looking for work, currently and in the past, I’ve worked with some fantastic...
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Asking Questions During the Interview Process
Interviewing is never easy no matter how skilled or comfortable you are when it comes to selling yourself. Preparation prior to the interview can be involved and the amount of interviews within...
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Employment Branding: The Social Media Piece
I've had acquaintances and colleagues reach out to me regarding employment branding over the years, and, in many cases, they simply wanted to brainstorm different ways to build a grassroots brand...
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