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Ben Slater

Ben Slater is the VP Growth at Beamery, the world's most advanced sourcing and recruitment marketing platform. If you're interested in attracting and converting better talent, check it out
Picture of Ben Slater

Ben Slater

Ben Slater is the VP Growth at Beamery, the world's most advanced sourcing and recruitment marketing platform. If you're interested in attracting and converting better talent, check it out

Why You Should Not Celebrate Failure

“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time” – Anthony J D’Angelo D’Angelo’s words are just one of the many monikers that encourage failure – how else are we meant to learn? We constantly encourage people to take risks and move quickly to innovate – from the get-go Facebook’s motto has been ‘move quickly and break things’. The entrepreneurial dream fetishizes failure, it’s a romantic rite of passage. We spend time poring over case studies of billionaires who have risen, phoenix-like from the ashes of their failures. If this is the

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Should Your Company Care About Doing Good?

In today’s unstable financial world we all need to think about is the bottom line. Where can we get new customers from? How do we decrease churn? How can we increase profits? “Goodness is the only investment that never fails” – Henry David Thoreau Our magpie-like obsession with cash-flow has led companies to some pretty dark places. Ford knowingly signed hundreds of death warrants with their Pinto model in the 1970’s, refusing to fix their fire-prone fuel tanks. The upgrade would have cost more than the $200,000 Ford set as the value for a human life. Today’s corporations’ compete with their carefully constructed CSR

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Why You Should Start A Talent Community Now

Everyone seems to have a different opinion on what exactly makes up a talent community. Is it the contents of your CRM? Your job board resume database? The collection of people that ‘follow’ your company on LinkedIn. For me, there isn’t necessarily a single hard and fast definition. What there is though, is an overriding theme. The clue is in the word. Community. A talent community is a group of candidates that a company is focused on building a relationship with. The emphasis is very much on communication. Companies stay in touch with these candidates and focus on creating a two-way

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Harsh Truths To Become A Better Recruiter

“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies” – Larry Bossidy The phrase you are what you eat translates nicely to recruitment. Companies are built on great employees – hiring is therefore the most important thing we do. There are so many recruitment channels in today’s digital society that it’s increasingly difficult to stop some stuff slipping through the cracks. This is by no means an indictment on the state of recruitment, but there is always room for change, room for innovation — if a

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