Category Archives: recruitment

Photo courtesy of My Mobile Billboard This past month, Dartmouth-Hitchcock came to us requesting a less than ordinary marketing strategy for a convention they were attending. They mentioned that they were seeking something memorable and creative and the statement that stuck with us was simple,…

At Harger Howe we love microsites for recruitment, but we realize that not everyone is familiar with the term so we thought we’d explain it. What is a microsite? Well, like the name implies, it’s a small site, but it is SO much more!

We don’t hire a lot of people, but when we do, we try to write a job description that is accurate, funny and engaging for our audience. We recognize that in order to hire the best people, we need to communicate our needs and desires for any new role. If we do a good job explaining the requirements…

I don’t really like to talk about when I fail. I know everyone in the world likes to say that they’re perfectionists and it’s their biggest weakness and strength at interviews, but really, that’s me to a T. I like to master something even if it’s outside of my comfort zone, so failure isn’t…

Think about that for a minute. People may chuckle but the argument can be shaped to fit the statement. All too often organizations tend to downplay the importance of those tasked with finding new qualified talent and management for the most part doesn’t get “it.”

Close your eyes and think about your least favorite job. What was the worst part about it? Some people will definitely raise their hands citing reasons such as low pay, inconvenient hours or lack of upward mobility, but one of the commonly overlooked reasons for employee dissatisfaction and…

Recruitment branding is commonly known as employer branding. Universum Global defines it as, “the process of promoting a company, or an organization, as the employer of choice to a desired target group, one which a company needs and wants to recruit and retain. The process facilitates the company’s…

A large percentage of our recruitment clients end up running to us in a panic when they need advertising. Why you ask? They are tearing their hair out every day because they operate in a reactionary way.

When people mention social branding they are typically talking about a company on the whole, but niche markets such as healthcare recruitment need to play the game a little differently. At Harger Howe we produce and manage separate career-based pages for Twitter and Facebook for a number of our…