James Ellis
James Ellis is an authority on employer branding, focusing on companies who think they have no choice but to post and pray for talent. He is the principal of Employer Brand Labs, a bestselling author, keynote speaker, practitioner, and podcaster with a wealth of experience across multiple industries for almost a decade. You can find him on LinkedIn or subscribe to his free weekly newsletter The Change Agents.
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Content authored by James Ellis
Employer Branding’s “Model T moment”
After three decades of experimentation and ideation, testing the limits of consumer branding within a recruiting space, employer branding has found ways to make meaningful tactical impact without the baggage.
Building The Perfect Hiring Experience for Candidates
For all the ink being spilled in praise of all things “candidate experience,” the candidate experience is still pretty bleak, primarily because the experience can be boiled down to three… Read more
Guessing Games Are for Suckers: The Case for the Data-Driven EVP
Stop Guessing: The Case for the Data-Driven EVP Managing and investing in one’s employer brand is no longer something only big companies do. Every company has become acutely very aware… Read more
The 16 Core Competencies of a Successful Employer Brand Professional
Spoiler: You’ll Wear A Lot of Hats What does it take to be a great employer brand professional? As a rapidly growing and evolving role within companies, the concept of… Read more
Uncertainty Kills: The Root Cause of All Your Recruiting Problems
Hiring is a minefield, with hidden and not-so-hidden problem, obstacles, issues and objections scattered between here to the acceptance. As a recruiter or recruiting leader, you are tasked with shepherding the candidate… Read more
Want to Start a Recruiting Revolution? Stop Doing What Everyone Else Is Doing
Look, your recruiting strategy is effectively 98 percent the same as every other company. You start with an ATS, you write and publish job openings on job boards and tell… Read more
Beyond Buzzwords: A Recruiter’s Guide to Picking New Tech
No one got into recruiting or human resources to spend their time wading through new technology. And yet here you are, awash in apps, tools, startups and tech that you… Read more
Less Conversation, More Action: Today’s Recruitment Marketing
What do you use for Recruitment Marketing? Video! Podcasts! Just-in-time recruiting content! Candidate experience! Job descriptions written for people by people! Analytics! Big data! Remarketing campaigns! Alexa and Siri! Programmatic… Read more
Busting the 7 Biggest Employer Branding Myths of All Time.
Based on Google Trends data and anecdotal evidence in the form of podcast topics in the HR, this is the year of Employer Brand (at least in the talent acquisition… Read more
Who’s The Boss: Recruiter or Hiring Manager?
If you’re like most employers today, there’s a good chance that you’re spending a lot of money establishing your company’s recruitment marketing initiatives. Whether that’s establishing an employer brand, replacing or… Read more
Recruiting Is A Game of Constraints. Play It.
I’ve had the chance to talk to quite a few recruitment marketers and talent acquisition leaders over the years, and if there’s one thing that I can safely say about… Read more
Blank Space: A Recruitment Marketing Manifesto.
They say the only thing that you can consistently count on at work – and in life – is change. Of course, if your life’s work happens to be recruiting,… Read more
Speak Now: How Voice Search Will Change the World of Job Search and Recruiting.
Voice search has become a nearly ubiquitous part of our existence, moving from the margins to the mainstream so quickly it’s hard to believe that just two years ago, only 41%… Read more
How To Make Sure Your Recruiting Content Doesn’t Suck.
Your job descriptions, as you likely already know, are all but worthless. They are poorly-written technical specs built by lawyers who don’t know much about the job in the first… Read more
Highway to Hell: The Future of Recruiting is Terrifying.
I don’t get out a whole hell of a lot, at least as far as the trade show circuit is concerned; taking the time out of my day job for “thought leadership”… Read more
