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The nuts & bolts to make the most of job boards

Choosing a job board to post your job ads is like choosing in which TV show you want a slot for your commercial. Of course you aren’t selling fast food or the latest and greatest cologne, you are selling an employment opportunity; however, in either case, audience is everything. Would an informed marketing agency pay…

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20+ exciting HR conferences to attend in 2020

While reading the paper the other morning (a.k.a. scrolling through my LinkedIn feed), I saw Laura Sturmer shared a list of business events in Toronto. This list covered a wide variety of su-topics, from marketing, PR, AI, programming, career coaching and I thought: this is extremely helpful and a huge time-saver with regards to researching…

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Common SMB recruiting challenges and how to defeat them

While the human element is an arguably important asset in businesses of all sizes, talent acquisition in a small-medium sized business is quite different from the enterprise counterpart. That leads to different recruiting challenges each is facing. How a new hire performs or what they value in a team of 5-20 usually makes a sweeping…

a data-driven approach to writing a good job post

A Data-Driven Approach to Writing a Good Job Post

Job Posting: Are you doing it wrong?If you’re doing any of these things, the answer is YES! Copy and pasting your job description from a generic template to your job post Listing vague bulleted lists of broad skills Using any of these words: “We’re looking for a go-getter” “Rockstars only!” “Best-in-class employer!” Not researching the…