Best Practices

Read Me!

Count sheep. Read a page from Tolstoy's War and Peace.

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Employee Experience Series- Best First Impression

The interview process is not only your first impression with a potential new employee, but also one of your first opportunities to create an engaged employee. The Brilliant Ink Employee Experience Survey found that 89% of people interviewed felt excited by the interview process.

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Employee Experience Series - You had me at hello

So, you have a job to fill?  Lucky you - the world is your oyster.

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Dust off the old job description: how to hire effectively

We’re excited to have a guest blogger featured on the Brilliant Blog this week. For more than 17 years, Angee Linsey has worked closely with company leaders to recruit exceptional team members and implement solid recruitment strategies.

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Employee Communications 1.0

We're going low-tech on the Brilliant Blog to revisit a simple rule of employee communications: Just because you build it and launch it doesn't mean your employees will use it. I'm reminded of this when conversations with clients turn to the use of internal social media (ISM).

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Constant change means you need a strong network

Why belong to a professional organization? In an age of massive open online courses (think Coursera and Khan Academy), abundant web seminars, and hundreds of free meetup groups in every major city, it’s a fair question.

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How to write so your employee audience will read

One simple tip can radically improve intranet content and employee messaging and instantly increase the number of employees who read right to the end: Stop writing book reports. Yes, you heard me.

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Why Good Design Matters for Employee Communications

It's not a secret that design has become a strategic weapon for external communications. Whether it's an easy-to-use website or an engaging ad campaign, companies of all sizes understand that design can differentiate and create loyal customers.

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Fighting the "I'm so busy!" blues

The question is: what are we busy about?” - Henry David Thoreau These days, I've been hearing a common refrain from friends and colleagues: “I'm CRAZY busy!

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