Harger Howe Recruitment Marketing Blog

As regular contributors to the blogosphere via social media channels such as LinkedIn, our writers receive a lot of comments, invitations and engagement from our shares. This kind of outreach is exactly what we strive for in the advertising arena, however, there are certain types of interactions…

Have you ever wondered why it seems difficult to find the perfect candidate for an open requisition? It seems like you have all the job requirements listed out. You know that you’ve written an exciting job description. It’s out there. What more do job seekers want? Well, the answer might be simpler…

Spring officially started yesterday, and for those of us here in New England who’ve been living under the reign of Snow Miser, we’re happy to usher in a new season. And, of course with that new season comes new recruitment demands. Candidates are ready to thaw out and look for new careers. With…

Picture this. It’s 4:58pm on a Thursday or Friday. You have 42 open requisitions and only about three of them are going well. You’re stressed and can’t imagine how you’re going to get all of the necessary work done, however, you’re making it work. Then…your Director of Recruitment walks in and…

Here at Harger Howe we are still in disbelief that it’s already March. It seems like just moments ago we were talking about holiday and Winter recruitment and now Spring is around the corner! But, the fact is it’s been three months and many things have transpired since 2017 started so we decided to…

2017's National Employee Benefits Day is fast approaching. This holiday, which was created and is promoted by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans was instituted mostly to increase awareness via communication of benefits to employees, however April 3rd is a perfect time to review…

Blogging. The word conjures up memories of the platforms like Blogspot and LiveJournal. While these sites are still in existence and used relatively regularly, they just don’t have the “cool” reputation of competing platforms like Tumblr, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and of course, the mother of…

We’re always talking about how much we love Instagram. It’s a great digital space to promote company culture, offer links to new content and showcase design elements. It’s searchable, it can be used for pay-per-click recruitment marketing, it has a stories feature and now it has a carousel-style…

If you’ve been in recruitment long enough, you can probably remember a time when feedback was gathered purely at exit interviews or by anonymous survey reports. Today’s reviews are instantaneous and across multiple networks. Of course there are the overt ones like Facebook reviews, direct Tweets…

Valentine’s Day is coming up next week so we thought now would be the right time to show a little love for a traditional method of advertising: direct mail. Sometimes direct mail can get bad a reputation because some people feel that it’s just spam, but that’s not the case. A well thought out…