Category Archives: recruitment

During the early Winter and holiday season, many candidates relax when it comes to job searching. A general malaise comes over them and they justify the lack of action with statements like, “I’ll start fresh in January!” However, there is a certain type of candidate that keeps searching during…

When we concept microsites for clients they are often initially confused by the term “microsite.” While micro implies small, small is not entirely the case when it comes to some sites. For instance, healthcare recruitment microsites or healthcare careers microsites as some would call them are meant…

It’s almost December and most of us are thinking about the holidays, but some stressed recruiters and companies are thinking about more pressing concerns. These concerns include general hiring shortages, but are particularly painful when it comes to hard-to-fill or upper level management positions…

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently posted an article called Niche Job Sites Still Valuable as Legacy Boards Fade. We were very excited to read that article, because it confirms something we’ve long believed: niche jobs boards are more effective because they reach the right…

Many studies have found that physician burnout is at an all time high. For instance, the American Medical Association and the Mayo Clinic reported, “burnout and satisfaction with work-life balance in US physicians worsened from 2011 to 2014. More than half of US physicians are now experiencing…

The flipside of any negative situation is opportunity. Per Medscape’s Lifestyle Report 2016: Bias and Burnout research, physician burnout is at an all time high. In fact, “the highest percentages of burnout occurred in critical care, urology, and emergency medicine, all at 55%. Family medicine and…

Though recruitment marketers aren’t heavily using Pinterest yet for sourcing, they should really begin to build it into their social media budgets for 2017. According to a recent article from the Wall Street Journal called Pinterest showing it can compete with Facebook, Twitter Pinterest has 150…

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…

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…