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. 
First it was Arrested Development. Then it was Beavis and Butthead, followed by layaway and (presumably) pantyhose. Now, the latest comeback story of the season involves middle management.
Middle management positions were a significant casualty of recession-era layoffs, but new research from CareerBuilder’s various industry sites indicate that many employers saw counterproductive consequences and are now rehiring for those positions. Continue reading
“There’s a connection between culture and recruiting,” Mike Grennier, Senior Director of Corporate Recruiting for Walmart Stores, Inc., told an audience of hiring resources professionals at the annual HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas last month.
Grennier was leading a session on virtual interviewing, a practice Walmart began just two years ago in hopes to create a more efficient recruiting process that benefits both company and candidate. Continue reading
Earlier today, while you might’ve been busy vowing never to eat again, voting for your favorite Muppet (Swedish Chef, anyone?), or shopping for that very special Jaleel White fan in your life… Nationally recognized small business expert, speaker and author Jay Goltz was discussing small business hiring trends and best practices for a free webinar titled Hire With Purpose. Continue reading
Are resumes - as we know them – going the way of the dinosaur, Google Buzz and Kim Kardashian’s marriage? (Too soon?)
They might be, if Eugene Woo has any say in it. Today, Business Insider posted this interview with the visualize.me co-founder, who says that as paper resumes become “less and less helpful” to time-strapped hiring managers, visual resumes (or infographic resumes, like this now-famous one) are the way of the future. Continue reading
Who says you have to wait until a position opens up to recruit candidates? For 43 percent of companies recruitment is a day-to-day effort, according to a new CareerBuilder study.
The recent survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers nationwide found that two-in-five U.S. Continue reading
“I’m not looking for great storytellers. I want to figure out what makes people tick and how they operate on the job.” – Jay Goltz
In the following Q&A, small business expert Jay Goltz draws from his experience as an entrepreneur to discuss the lessons he’s learned – often the hard way – about what it really takes to hire and retain the best people to run a successful business (or, in his case, five). Continue reading
Perhaps a trip to American Staffing Association’s Staffing World 2011 just wasn’t in the cards this year…or perhaps you were too busy attending sessions, entering to win a [insert flashy handheld electronic device here], and learning how to pronounce “beignet” to catch everything there was to see at this year’s conference, which took place earlier this month in New Orleans. Continue reading
“I’ve always had the philosophy that strategy in leadership is as much about what you don’t do as it is about what you do.”
In the following interview for CareerBuilder’s Leadership Series, Sun Life CEO Wes Thompson reflects on the importance of people as they relate to sustainability, what he looks for in candidates, and the value of trusting your gut. Continue reading
“At the end of the day, it isn’t just about a having a visionary idea or business plan. It’s about employees who bring passion and flawless execution.”
Such is how Kevin Ryan began – and set the tone for – his keynote address, Hirer’s Remorse? Continue reading
From zero to 103,000 in 30 days…
What sounds like the tag line of a lame Nicolas Cage action movie (redundant?) actually describes the change in the number of jobs created since last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which released September’s Employment Situation Report this morning. Continue reading
