When’s the last time one of your employees told you what they really thought? For Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, the answer is last week. That’s when 25-year-old Talia Jane, a member of Yelp/Eat24’s customer support team, posted an open letter to him, detailing her struggles to survive on the entry level salary she receives from the company. Her 2,392-word rant includes in-depth accounts of her struggles to afford food, transportation and even healthcare co-pays after spending 80% of her salary on rent in the notoriously expensive bay area. There’s also more than a little overt complaining about her lot in life, some resentful mentions of Stoppelman’s multi-million-dollar salary and even a request that he pay her phone bill.

Chief Human Resources Officers and Global Heads of Recruitment are shifting their local recruiting budgets to focus on attracting international talent. Although global recruitment programs are a means to save time, money and administrative costs, they can create unique challenges. There is no “one size fits all” job marketing tactic, and often recruiting beyond borders fails to perform optimally when programs are consolidated.

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As a recruiter, you've tried the job boards and you've purchased some email campaigns, but you're still not getting the volume of response you need to fill those open jobs. Now might be the time to consider adding text messaging as a new platform to complement your existing arsenal of recruitment-advertising channels.

Text messaging is rapidly becoming an integral part of the recruitment process. A growing number of HR departments and recruiters see this means of communicating with potential job candidates as a successful channel for acquiring and onboarding new talent.

Most people spend each day with their smartphone devices within easy reach. A recent TIME Mobility Poll finds 84 percent of respondents couldn't go a single day without their mobile device. It's no surprise that texting has become the preferred communication medium of choice for a large portion of the population. As people are always on the go, texting offers a more immediate means of getting a response than a phone call. In fact, the International Smartphone Mobility Report shows Americans spend about 26 minutes a day texting, compared to only six minutes a day on voice calls.

Texting as a Recruiting Tool

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