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Extracurricular activities: How to differentiate top Gen Y talent

When it comes to recruiting top talent, details distinguish the best candidate.

Exceptional students and grads are often cut from the same cloth: they’re memorable, have had great academic success and have built a solid foundation of relevant work experience throughout their post-secondary careers.

Recruiting a pool of high-quality candidates has the potential to elevate your employer brand and strengthen your workforce, but when competition for an open opportunity is fierce, narrowing down your top picks can feel impossible.

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Employer branding: How to humanize your online presence

Humanization: the act of giving something human characteristics or attributes.

Flesh and bones? Not quite.

“Being human” in the digital age means incorporating aspects of humanity – sense of self, language and emotional intelligence – into the interactions you have with your target audience.

From digital content to social media, the idea is to engage talent in an authentic (re: human) way in order to connect on a deeper, more personal level.

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5 ways to enhance your student program

Internship and co-op programs: they’re career-hatching, eye-opening, and highly sought after.

Students across the country are ready to get cracking with valuable experience under their shells, and employers are looking to harvest their potential.

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6 Ways Grant Thornton Strengthened Their Employer Brand

Part of recruiting Gen Y means developing a solid employer branding strategy that is both unique and memorable.

Paul Peterson took the stage at the 2013 TalentEgg Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards and Conference and delivered a presentation that demonstrated just how effective a strong branding strategy can be.

Paul is the Senior Manager of National Talent Resourcing at Grant Thornton LLP, and his presentation stood out in part by offering some unexpected advice, including:

“Don’t eat yellow snow.”

“Never wear socks with sandals.”

Standing out was exactly what Paul wanted to do when it came to recruiting Gen Y’s top talent for the Accounting industry. Continue reading

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