Content has become a proven channel for lead generation and can easily be applied to your recruiting efforts. If your company is thinking about starting a career blog or just creating recruiting content in general, here are some tips you might find helpful: 1. Stay Consistent A key characteristic of any successful blog is… Read more »
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5 Easy Tips for Creating Hiring Manager Recruitment Videos
The reason for including hiring manager recruitment videos on your job description is easy. It helps your job description stand out and gives transparency to the candidate (something all candidates (especially millennials) tell us they value). Here are a few easy tips for creating hiring manager videos: 1) Make the Video Less than 60 Seconds… Read more »
How to Write a Job Description Like an Ad Copywriter
You have to do better than a “copy-and-paste” of an old job description to write a job description that stands out and engages the best talent. Many of you still use job descriptions written by someone with little to no marketing skills. Or perhaps copy-and-paste the JD from an unknown source. Let me give you… Read more »
Great “Overlays” For Kenexa-Brassring ATS Job Pages [2020 Update]
If you’re a Kenexa-Brassring ATS client, you are likely frustrated with how your default job pages look “out of the box” without any customization. And that’s a clear obstacle to you having effective employer branding/candidate experience. You might want to check out job page overlays. What is a Kenexa-Brassring ATS job page overlay? A job page overlay is… Read more »
10 Examples of the Best Job Ads in 2017
Here are 10 examples of job ads worth looking at, whether you are revamping your own…or just looking for creative job ad ideas. Last year Ongig published 10 Awesome Job Descriptions and we are already seeing many companies (big and small) making vast improvements to their job ads which show you just how fast they are evolving. Some… Read more »
How to Write a Job Description (as Told by a Microsoft/Lockheed Veteran Sourcer)
Tens of thousands of recruiting/HR pros per month do a Google search on one of these terms related to “How to Write a Job Description ?” Google Search Term # of Monthly Searches job description template 7,920 how to write a job description 1,920 job descriptions samples 1,056 how to write job description 849 writing job descriptions 246… Read more »
Deloitte’s New Job Descriptions are Content Rich
If you treat your job description pages (which are ads!) more like editorial content, they will convert better (I didn’t say that — famous ad man David Ogilivy did!). Deloitte recently launched new job descriptions (below) are a great example. Notice all the content they link to in the right-hand rail of the job description page: A day in the… Read more »
20 of the Best Company Career Sites (and Why!)
If you are redoing your company career site, check out the list below — it’s a list of 20 company career sites that have impressed us recently. We included career pages from large publicly traded enterprises on down to smaller companies you’ve likely never heard of. The 20 company career sites below are in alphabetical order and… Read more »
