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Mary Lorenz

Mary Lorenz Mary is a copywriter for CareerBuilder, specializing in B2B marketing and corporate recruiting best practices and social media. In addition to creating copy for corporate advertising and marketing campaigns, she researches and writes about employee attraction, engagement and retention. Whenever possible, she makes references to pop culture. Sometimes, those references are even relevant. A New Orleans native, Mary now lives in Chicago, right down the street from the best sushi place in the city. It's awesome.
Are You Listening to Employees

Employee Feedback: Are You Really Listening?

Unless you’re Angela Martin from “The Office”, opening yourself up to criticism about your shortcomings probably falls somewhere between picking up your dry cleaning and getting a colonoscopy on your list of favorite things to do.

While administering employee feedback surveys can feel like you’re putting both your company and your performance as a leader and manager in front of the firing squad, it also happens to be one of the most efficient and effective ways to understand the internal workings of your organization. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement

Employee Benefits

Better Employee Benefits Generate Perks for Business, Too

Creating a better benefits package isn’t just good for employees. It’s good for business, too.

Growing Pains: it’s not just a classic TV series desperately in need of a reunion show. While growth is a blessing for many companies, it also brings with it many challenges. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Employee Engagement, Talent Acquisition

Surprising Reason for Candidate Drop Off

The Surprising Reason You’re Not Getting the Candidates You Need

You don’t get it. You’re doing everything right: You’re offering a great job with a great company, you’ve ensured your job advertising placement is targeting the right group of candidates, and you’re positive you’re offering the most competitive salary. Even your job posting is flawless. Continue reading

By in Talent Acquisition

Reskill workers

What Skills Gap? 5 Ways to Get the Qualified Workers You Need

Finding workers with the right skills can be a skill in itself.

If you find yourself complaining that you can’t find the qualified candidates you need for certain positions at your organization, the good news is you’re not alone – by a long shot. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement

Word of Mouth Marketing for Recruiters

Forget Social Media | Recruit Employees With Word-of-Mouth Marketing

They may love their Facebooks, their Twitters and their YouTubes, but the members of Gen Y may not be nearly as swayed by social media as you might think. New research around social media’s influence on consumer behavior  indicates that, while millennials might be “digital natives”, they are actually more influenced by word-of-mouth marketing than social media when it comes to making purchasing decisions. Continue reading

By in Referral Programs, Talent Acquisition

Turn Job Candidates Into Fans

Turn Potential Candidates Into Your Number One Fans

If you’ve ever known the pain of waiting for a certain phone call, email, text message or Tweet that just…never…comes (sad face emoticon), then you know the pain job candidates go through every time you go M.I.A. after the initial contact or interview. Continue reading

By in Staffing & Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Pipeline

Recruiters

5 Things Every Recruiter Should Know

If any of you recruiters out there, like me, obsessively watch have ever seen an episode of Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, you may have noted the similarity between recruiting and matchmaking. Both jobs entail trying to deliver the best candidates possible to a customer in hopes to make the perfect match (and end up happily ever after). Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Staffing & Recruiting

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Four Ways to More Effective Employee Coaching

Should companies invest in executive coaching? If a recent survey on executive coaching by AMA Enterprise, a division of the American Management Association, is any indication, the answer is no. Dig a little deeper, however, and coaching might just be worth reconsidering. Continue reading

By in Leadership Development

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The Rumors are True: Updates in Store for CareerBuilder’s Resume Database

What’s the old adage? “A new year, a new resume database update”…? (Yeah, no, I’m pretty sure that’s a thing.) Anyway, it’s true: On Monday, January 9, CareerBuilder introduces a whole new resume database (RDB) experience.

Why the change? Trust us, we’re not trying to pull a Qwikster on you. Continue reading

By in Talent Acquisition

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CareerBuilder Leadership Series: Spotlight on Manpower North America’s Jorge Perez Izquierdo

“You have to give your talent the opportunity to be part of the decisions that are being made, because that’s truly when you get the benefit of working with an A player.”

In the following interview, Jorge Perez Izquierdo, Senior Vice President, Manpower North America, discusses why recruiting and retaining the best talent isn’t simply an HR initiative, but a key leadership role. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Leadership Series

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