Harger Howe Recruitment Marketing Blog

Fall has begun and most of us are thinking about apples, pumpkin picking, Halloween and beautiful leaves. However, Autumn is a short season therefore now is the time to work on a solid recruitment strategy for the slower Winter season so that you aren't left out in the cold. Winter is a tough time…

Well, it’s mid-September and the countdown to the #INBOUND16 conference has officially begun in the offices of Harger Howe. Last year was our first year attending this conference, but this year, we’d like to impart some of our best tips for new attendees. We’ve broken the tips down into categories…

Liz Ryan, a regular contributor to Forbes wrote an interesting piece this week called the Ten Things Good Employers Won't Ask Job-Seekers To Do. We would like to encourage you to read her article as it provides a great job seeker perspective. Today however, we’d like to show you why a recruitment…

Instagram is an incredible tool that drives engagement (and it doesn’t hurt that it is owned by Facebook!) Recruiters are fairly active on Facebook and Twitter, but as the internet community becomes more and more visual every day, Instagram is continuing to gain steam as a social platform for…

As we are an integrated recruitment marketing agency, we talk a lot about digital media including social networking, however, one of the most important things to remember when you start creating a recruitment budget is that one platform is not enough. Recruitment marketing is always more effective…

10. Understand the Informed Candidate In today’s world, the recruitment marketing game has changed. It used to be that marketers could push out outbound marketing only (billboards, print ads etc) and they would be embraced, but companies really need to start considering the fact that 2016…

Last week, Mari Smith wrote a very informative article for Social Media Examiner called How to Customize Your Facebook News Feed: What Marketers Need to Know, which got us thinking…what kinds of things should recruiters do to stay up-to-date with and track recruitment marketing trends on Facebook?…

Recently, The Wall Street Journal completed a study of 2.3 million LinkedIn profiles that endeavored to find out what the top in-demand soft skills were among professionals. They were as follows: Communication Organization Teamwork Always Punctual Critical Thinking Social Skills Creativity…

In a world where news is tied to Twitter feeds, friends are interacted with on Facebook and referrals are made on LinkedIn, it is essential to be up-to-date with your personal brand. At first it is tempting to believe that your social networks do not affect your company’s employer brand, but that…

I recently read an article from Inc.com called Hey Millennials, Stop Killing the Vacation! Immediately upon seeing that headline I knew I had to click. A lot of the time I see articles about job-hopping millennials or replacing the baby boomer workforce with my generation, but it isn’t often that a…