Geoff Webb (Head Chief Uber Organizer) has been a member of the Recruitment community for over 20 years. He has spent 6 years in recruitment management and decided that it wasn’t for him. For the past 6-7 years he has focused on Sourcing (finding people on the internet and via phone) and Talent Community Management, or the ability to leverage Social Media, Media and Networking to drive talented prospects towards the best candidate experience.
Geoff is an avid blogger and promoter of Recruitingblogs.com and has been involved with Recruitfest as well as the creation of many online communities including the Canadian Recruitment Professionals Association. Geoff is also the founder and chief bandleader for the Toronto Recruiter Meetup, a monthly meeting of some of Toronto’s thought leadership in the Recruitment space.
Stephanie A. Lloyd: Stephanie is Founder and CEO, Radiant Veracity in Atlanta, Georgia: At the Intersection of Talent + Social Media.
With more than 15 years of experience in corporate recruiting and executive search, Stephanie works with hiring managers, HR executives, business owners, and recruiting firms on recruitment and retention strategy including how to better utilize social media for talent acquisition and employee communication.
Additionally, she helps individuals by providing guidance on subjects ranging from the job search to personal branding and career advancement strategies.
Stephanie is named in 150+ Experts on Twitter ALL Job Seekers MUST Follow by Career Rocketeer and she has been featured on Gravity Free Radio as well as High Velocity Radio discussing Social Media + The Workplace. She currently serves as President and webmaster for the Women’s Finance Exchange.
Like her grandmother, Stephanie delivers a healthy dose of candor and serves it with a smile.
Jerry Albright: There’s no way around using “Old School” to describe Jerry Albright.
His recruiting career began June 16, 1987 and he spent his first 10 years learning the ins and outs of direct and contract staffing with a top regional firm. After taking his career as far as he could working for others he decided it was time to “do his own thing” and founded Professional Search Group in 1998.
Jerry Albright is a recruiting veteran who has built a sold reputation as a “tell it like it is” recruiter taking every opportunity to share his knowledge with anyone who will listen! He has built a satisfied client base throughout the Midwest in the I.T. arena in both direct and contract staffing.
Seeing a need to provide a higher level of service to his clients, Verbal Summary was founded in 2008. The tool gives a glimpse “beyond the paper” by simply clicking a play button atop the resume for a few minutes of audio “direct from the source”.
Julia Stone owns BizWerks, a technical and scientific recruiting company. Julia brings over 12 years of experience managing agency projects and teams and has collaborated with many companies from Fortune 500 clients to very small startups. Her projects include contingent staffing, direct hire search, and managed services. She knows her shit stuff.
Julia is actively involved in her community and continues to enrich her education. In addition to completing various certificate programs related to her field, she serves on local groups such as the Madison Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Advisory Council and the City of Madison’s Economic Development Commission. In 2008, Julia was listed on Madison’s 40 Under 40 list, which spotlights shakers and movers in the community. Julia was the winner of the SourceCon Challenge #2 last year and understands the significance of a purple squirrel and what do to with one when you find it.
Based in Toronto, the Recruiting Animal worked as a busboy and taxi driver before drifting into recruiting and a brilliant career as a pioneer of recruiter blogging.
In January 2004, he co-founded the Canadian Headhunter blog. In April 2005, he became a partner in Recruiting.com (once the central blog of the recruiting community online).
In April 2006, he founded the Recruiting Animal blog, then, in March 2007, he started The Recruiting Animal Show, the only online call-in show about recruiting in world history.
Although unrecognized in his native land, the Recruiting Animal has established himself as one of the world’s leading experts on resumes, job-hunting, social media and Generation Y. He is incredibly well-connected in the free world and beyond.
John Sumser is the founder and CEO of Two Color Hat, Inc. The firm provides product analysis, market segmentation, positioning, strategy and branding guidance for vendors in the HR industry. Clients have included Salary.com, EA, ATT, IBM, Monster, Bernard Hodes, Hot Jobs, Arbita, RetirementJobs, Hire.com, Jobster, Recruiting.com and many other familiar brands.
Sumser operates as an independent analyst of the HR universe. Many of the ideas and concepts that dominate the Recruiting industry first emerged from Sumser’s keyboard. He has a consistent track record for accurately predicting the future twists and turns of the labor market. He has been called ‘the industry’s own innovation engine.’
Noted for his broad view of the marketplace and career long efforts to replace conventional wisdom with differentiating strategy, Sumser is a regular speaker at the Industry’s trade shows. He has been quoted in Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, most national newspapers, hundreds of websites and in over 50 books on HR related subjects.
Whether it’s delivering micro trade shows to local audiences with the Recruiting Roadshow® or exploring the next conceptual idea set on johnsumser.com, Sumser operates the industry’s R&D lab. The current project involves helping HR vendors use regional demographic information to increase sales traction during the downturn.
Marie Journey is commonly known as a builder of processes, procedures, and networks. Having over 10 years recruiting experience in both Corporate as well as Agency environments. She has worked with one of the largest for profit organizations, Microsoft, as well as one of the largest non-profit organizations in the world, AIESEC. From the largest organizations to small, niche firms her value comes from creating new process, strengthening current foundations, and implementing profitable change.
Applying background in logistics and marketing to navigate real world strategies using latest tools, applications, alongside proven recruiting techniques for both quick and long term results. Created multilevel recruiting processes, sourcing processes and procedures, trained new and old talent on latest tools and recruiting methods, and enjoys hunting top talent from all over the world. Self admitted super geek with great fondess for new ideas, world travel, languages, and all manner of tools from software to plug in power tools.
Jason Davis, better known to many as Slouch, the man behind the beanie at RecruitingBlogs.com, started RecruitFest! as an unconference that would address the changing recruiting landscape. A recruiter for years before starting a series of recruiting sites, networks and communities for recruiters, Jason knows recruiting. His goal was to provide a place (both online and off) where recruiters can interact, share knowledge and challenge one another to be better. He spends his time making RecruitingBlogs.com a great place for over 17,000 recruiters to blog, network and hang out. He also owns and operates several other recruiting websites and communities.
Jenny DeVaughn is an Executive Recruiter and Social Media Enthusiast who loves to pay-it-forward. While sourcing and recruiting at Talent Connections, Jenny has earned the nickname, “Bring It On” DeVaughn due to her consistent success in completing hard-to-fill searches. Jenny enjoys giving social media/recruiting training for companies and professionals that want to leverage free online tools to engage talent, lead generation or other opportunities to increase their brand.
Jenny is honored to be the EVP of Member Services for the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-Atlanta), Director of Career Advancement for the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) and an active member of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Recruiting Society.
She is in the top five of the most connected on LinkedIn in the metro Atlanta area with over 15,000 direct contacts. Jenny attended The College of New Jersey and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Marketing through The University of Phoenix.
Gerry Crispin is a consultant, HR practitioner, thought leader and author of 8 books and 100 articles. His views on employment strategy, hiring process and staffing technology are sought by many of the world’s most competitive corporations.
Acknowledged as one of the most influential leaders in the staffing industry, Gerry and his business partner, Mark Mehler, founded CareerXroads in the mid 90’s and today their firm facilitates intense, small-group meetings with staffing leaders at 80 of the world’s largest multi-nationals. They create experiences that probe cutting-edge employment issues, contrast staffing best practices, and contribute to the evolution of the recruiting function.
Bill Boorman is a UK Recruitment veteran of 27 years experience and runs a business supporting recruitment businesses throughout Europe with 4 distinct brands: Bill Boorman Consultancy – Providing Management Consultancy and Training to recruiters and recruiting businesses; The Good News Group (Recruiters) – Found on LinkedIn. Spreading positive news stories as an antidote to the recessionary talk and organizing sales competitions for recruiters, firms and others as well as staging breakfast, lunch and tea events; Ready for lift off – on www.blogtalkradio.com – A recruiting chat show with veteran recruiters discussing hot topics each Monday. The world’s SECOND recruiting phone-in show. @BillBoorman – Twitterholic, Blogger and speaker on all things recruitment. Speaking roll includes World Leaders in Recruitment – London, Social Media in Recruitment – London, Riding the recession – UK Speaking tour for the REC and Tin Hat Strategy on behalf of Elite Recruitment Leaders. Bill will be delivering an interactive session, Phoenix Recruiting – Rising from the recession based on the 2 T’s – Timing & Tactics.
