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After 20+ years in recruiting, hunting everything from truck drivers to CFOs, I'm now a Senior Recruiter at Amazon's Project Kuiper. I've spent the last several years in big tech (Microsoft / Google) after many years in various agencies learning how "real" recruiting is done. I'm passionate about client AND candidate experience, and I believe that good consulting sometimes looks like bad customer service. I'm flattered by every inmail I receive asking me if I'm on the market for a new gig, but be warned - the crappy ones turn into cautionary tale blog posts. I will also turn your snarky comments into t-shirts. ;)

Feel free to connect with me at amy@recruitinginyogapants.com.

Bryan Chaney is a global talent sourcing and attraction strategist and a cofounder of the Talent Brand Alliance. He’s worked at IBM, Twilio, and currently leads employment brand for corporate recruitment at Indeed. Bryan has worked in recruitment, technology, and marketing, providing him insights into the marketing of hiring, the importance of technology, and the buying process that candidates make when applying for jobs. You can follow along with him at @bryanchaney.

Chris Russell is the Managing Director of RecTech Media, a company whose mission is to inform the modern recruiter.

As a technologist, futurist, business advisor, and selection systems scientist I have spent over 20 years helping organizations across the globe to realize quantifiable value through their processes for selecting and developing human capital.

Specialties: I help clients take a results oriented, systems approach to their employee selection processes, partnering with them to create a technology based process which clarifies the links between human capital and the ability to achieve organizational goals and objectives. My methodology focuses on helping clients to evaluate the financial impact of the entire selection system while also building linkages between the selection systems and other core areas of HR such as training and development.

For more information, visit my company: RocketHire

George LaRocque, Principal Analyst and Founder of WorkTech, has more than 25 years in the HCM industry. A former practitioner in talent acquisition, talent management, and HR, he turned technology vendor executive for some of the market’s largest brands. Now he’s an HCM market analyst and advisor focused on users and developers of HR technology. He was the publisher and founder of HRWins research and reports on workforce trends and related innovation in tech. He was instrumental in launching the UNLEASH media business and site during 2020. He helps employers understand the trends that are impacting their workforce today and in the future. He helps HR service providers and technology vendors with a unique perspective on HR customers and the changing workforce.

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HR Dive provides in-depth journalism and insight into the most impactful news and trends shaping workforce management. The daily email newsletter, website, and app cover topics such as talent acquisition, HR management, learning and development, diversity and inclusivity in hiring, compensation and benefits, onboarding, and more. HR Dive is a leading industry publication operated by Industry Dive. Our business journalists spark ideas and shape agendas for 7+ million decision makers in the most competitive industries.

Heidi Cardenas is a freelance writer with a background in human resources and business administration. She enjoys writing in these topic areas, especially recruiting, career development, job search, and employee engagement. She writes in a wide variety of formats including articles, blog posts, sales letters, features, email blasts, web copy, social media posts, e-books, white papers, and much more.

Ilit Raz is the co-founder and CEO of Joonko, a tech company that helps companies meet their DE&I targets.

Jacquelyn Adams is an award-winning engineering leader who focuses on the future of work and reskilling workforces. She is a recognized professional consultant, writer, and speaker for multiple industry-leading institutions.

Jamie Verga is a Research Analyst and writer for RNN. A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, he focuses on national as well as local coverage, as well as managing and curating RNN's "People on the Move" features.

Jeff Newman has been working in the recruiting industry for over 20 years, as an active practitioner. His staffing philosophy is simple: interview to hire as opposed to looking for reasons not to hire, and to speak with each human and not their resume. He prides himself on always making sure that what he is offering a candidate is an opportunity and not just another job.

He is currently Senior Diversity and Inclusion Sourcing Specialist for Walmart eCommerce, and has worked in sourcing and recruitment for Indeed, Dropbox, and other companies with critical hiring needs. He's a writer and blogger, and has written for multiple international recruiting-focused publications.

She has over 15 years of corporate talent acquisition leadership experience with organizations such as Thermo Fisher, Philips, and Arrow Electronics.  Jen’s background as a practitioner involved evolving recruiting staffing organizations to become a robust, metrics-driven, service-delivery talent acquisition consultative talent acquisition function. As a consultant with Korn Ferry, she worked closely with the Recruitment Process Outsourcing division to align Employer Brand and Talent Communications initiatives for clients.  In her current role as Senior Consultant for HireClix, she provides hands on guidance as well as thought leadership to TA global clients. Jen’s approach focuses on having the right recruiting foundation formula which can evolve with business and recruitment needs.

Jess Von Bank is a former recruiting practitioner and current HCM solution provider. Her 17-year obsession with connecting talent to opportunity and SHAPING THE FUTURE OF WORK has gremlined into something new: responding to the NOW of Work.

Julianna King is an MBA student at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. She brings a degree -as well as work experience -in business and marketing to her reporting, and focuses on issues around campus recruitment.

Kara has over 17 years experience in talent acquisition. Prior to her move into consulting leadership, Kara held TA leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies as SAIC, Boeing, and Intel. She founded Meritage Talent Solutions, a strategic recruitment consulting firm, in 2013 to bring innovation and disruption to the talent acquisition industry. In 2017, HireClix acquired Meritage and Kara joined the leadership team. Her past and current clients include Schneider Electric, CVS Health, Commerce Bank, BART, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Hudson’s Bay Company, CoreCivic, McKesson, and Parsons.

Katrina Kibben has been writing about, and for, the recruiting industry for over a decade. She specializes in copywriting with her firm, Three Ears Media. Her style is simple, straight-forward, and to the point. She focuses on practical tips and case studies she's seen work in this market with her personal spin and sense of humor.

Currently I'm the Talent Board president and a board member responsible for the Candidate Experience Awards worldwide. Founded in 2011, it’s the first nonprofit research organization focused on the elevation and promotion of a quality candidate experience with industry benchmarks that highlight accountability, fairness and business impact. I also hosts the popular Talent Board #TheCandEs Shop Talk podcast that covers recruiting and candidate experience.

I'm an HCI certified Talent Acquisition Strategist (TAS) and Human Capital Strategist with 20 years of domain expertise in the human resource and talent acquisition industry and related technology marketplace. I've been a prolific "HR business" blogger and writer since 2004 and my first business book on career management titled Tech Job Hunt Handbook was released in December 2012 from Apress. I hold a B.A. in Psychology from San Jose State University.

An avid reader, a grateful father and husband, I write regularly about responsible parenting and personal leadership at GetOffTheGround.blogspot.com.

Krystal Hicks is the founder of JOBTALK, a company that grew out of her side gig providing talent, recruiting, and job-hunting advice to companies and individuals. Before going out on her own, she managed U.S. Talent Acquisition for the Swiss chocolate maker Lindt, and was the former Director of Career Services at the University of New Hampshire.

Hi! I'm Lauryn Sargent, a cofounder and partner in Stories Incorporated.

I am most proud of how Stories Inc. is helping to improve the world of work.
We partner with companies to discover and communicate what's unique about their employee experience through team member stories. Then, we give candidates real insight so they can make informed life decisions.

I also love to help advance the employer branding and recruitment marketing discipline by sharing what we've learned after creating thousands of pieces of culture content.

A writer from a young age, after graduating from St. Lawrence University with a degree in writing poetry, Martin discovered that you cannot - in fact - send saucy limericks in lieu of checks for student loan payments. So he began his professional career in the publishing industry, ultimately moving into acquisition editing for Allyn & Bacon. Since making the move into the recruiting industry, he has scaled talent acquisition operations for rapidly growing global start-ups as well as taking on leadership roles with major multinationals. He brings broad and deep expertise in talent acquisition as well as communications to his role as editor-in-chief of Recruitment News Network. Along with his role with RNN, he serves as HireClix’s in-house technology “geek” and copywriter, regularly with major HireClix clients on recruitment initiatives and generally keeping his hand on the pulse of the industry. He also founded, and co-admins, the popular Facebook group Talent Product Plays.

Talent Acquisition Consultant for HireClix, and president of RecruitDC, Moe Hutt has designed and implemented enterprise intern, employee referral, contingent, workforce and recruiter training programs for fortune 500, Federal Government and medium to large-sized organizations throughout her 15 year tenure in the recruitment industry. While working with HireClix as a consultant, she has managed technology implementation, process optimization, and employer brand projects. Her program development and consulting experience has provided Moe with the expertise to solve any complex recruitment challenge.

Moha Ennaji has research interests in North African culture and gender issues, language and migration. He is the president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures. His most recent publications are:
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Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe (Palgrave, 2016, Editor), Muslim Morocca Migrants in Europe (Palgrave, 2015), Minorities, Women and the State in North Africa (Red Sea Press 2015, Editor). Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa (London, Routledge, 2014). Language and Gender in the Mediterranean Region, IJSL Issue 190, Editor (The Hague, 2008), Women in the Middle East, (Routledge, 2010). Gender and Violence in the Middle East (Routledge, 2011, both co-edited with F.Sadiqi.

Neil Costa has twenty years of experience in digital & recruitment marketing, with success in marketing, strategic alliances, sales, and business development. He has a strong depth of knowledge managing ROI and P&L impact on businesses, along with extensive experience in customer-facing roles and public speaking about recruitment marketing, recruiting analytics and building an employer brand. Neil’s specialties include interactive marketing, negotiation, social media, P&L management, and marketing know-how.

Pavle is a people-centric entrepreneur, a plant-powered athlete, and aspiring Stoic. He currently serves as the Chief People Officer at The Athletic Media Company. Prior to The Athletic, he served as Head of People at Getaround. When he’s not building people programs, he can be found pressing tofu or running the trails of the Presidio in San Francisco.

I’ve been in the talent acquisition industry since 2000, with experience in both agency and corporate settings. My passion has always stretched across several areas of talent acquisition, including recruitment and sourcing,  recruitment operations, employment branding, and the training and mentoring of recruiters. That last part is a personal favorite.

I’m currently a Senior Sourcing Recruiter at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the course of my career, I have worked for well-known organizations such as MicroStrategy, comScore, LivingSocial, and NPR. In addition to recruiting sought-after candidates both in the U.S. and internationally, I’ve been fortunate to have developed successful recruitment frameworks, recruitment processes and procedures, and enhancements to the candidate experience to enhance employer brand. Additionally, I’ve spent considerable time with building and implementing recruitment systems, including vendor selection.

Being part of the local recruiting community in DC has always been important to me. From 2010 to 2017, I held several positions as a member of the board of directors for recruitDC.

I’m originally from New York, In my spare time, I’m a loyal, if not cynical, sports fan. I also love being a youth sports coach, and am an aspiring hack guitarist.

Phil Strazzulla started his career off working in venture capital at Bessemer Venture Partners where he nerded out on early stage software companies.  He went off to get his MBA at HBS, taught himself to code, and found himself in the HR space as an entrepreneur running a small SaaS business.  Fast forward a few years and he started a blog to try and help HR and recruiting teams find and buy the right tools called SelectSoftware.  When not learning and writing about HR Tech, Phil can be found struggling to find fairways on the golf course, meditating, or trying out a new recipe.

Public Relations and Corporate Communications executive for the last 20 years with an emphasis in healthcare. Began working with Merritt Hawkins & Associates from the firm's inception and helped build it into the largest, most visible physician search and consulting firm in the United States. Author of over 400 articles and four books, including "Will the Last Physician in America Please Turn Off the Lights? A Look at America's Looming Doctor Shortage""; "Merrritt Hawkins Guide to Physician Recruiting"; "Have Stethoscope, Will Travel: Staff Care's Guide to Locum Tenens"; "In Their Own Words, 12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts on Medical Practice in America". Originated numerous public relations initiatives, including the nationally known "Country Doctor of the Year Award". Responsible for thousands of media placements and personally cited in dozens of publications and media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, People magazine, USA Today, NPR and many others.

Specialties: Setting strategic corporate communications/public relations plans and executing plans to obtain positive visibility, credibility and profitability.

Roy covers talent acquisition, immigration, HR technology and labor markets for SHRM Online. Before joining SHRM in 2008, he was an editor and reporter covering state and city government in Indiana, arts and culture in Los Angeles and theater in Washington, D.C. Before that he was a filmmaker and screenwriter and before that a photographer in the United States Marine Corps.  He has a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree in film production from Columbia College.

Contact him at roy.maurer@shrm.org and follow him on Twitter @SHRMRoy​.

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From his home-base in Glasgow, UK, Stephen O'Donnell has been actively involved in the professional recruitment sector since 1987, owning and running recruitment agencies since 1993. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (REC).

Stephen's expertise is in online recruitment, where, in 2000, he established the UK's first comprehensive online portal to every recruitment resource, including recruitment agencies, employers, consultants, job-board and publications. He has devised, and continued to run, the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORAs) since 2001. He is a smart participant in the global dialogue around recruitment, a cracking wit, and worth connecting with.

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Steve Rosen's career focus and passion is dedicated to connecting Human Capital Talent with Businesses to drive growth and innovation. The way he makes an impact in accomplishing this mission as a recruiter is by successfully removing hiring barriers to procure talent for technology innovation product and consulting organizations.

His area of specialization is placing Mid-to-Executive Level Technology, Sales, Management and C-Level Individuals within key roles for Fortune 500 and Start-Up Organizations (Microsoft/DXC Technologies/ NTT Data/ PwC/ Vectorform).

Solving a gap in the market place for candidates to get credible job search Information inspired Steve to launch Career Compass Group Tech Job Beat, a trendsetting digital tech job search magazine with actionable job search content and ideas.

-Featured in Global Tech Nerdy

Perpetually inspired by people, processes, and ideas—Susan is always on the hunt for inspiring leaders. Her no-nonsense approach along with her insatiable curiosity has and continues to bring genuine, top talent through the doors of any company she works with or for. She is also responsible for strategy, technology & education around the recruitment function and is driven by the possibilities of making every day just a little better than yesterday for those around her.

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Her passion for retail and networking led her to the development of Retail Networking Solutions. As a co-founder of RNS she facilitates up to 40 brand-neutral networking events a year for the retail field and is in constant communication with their almost 16,000 LinkedIn followers.

She believes everyone should (finally) get serious about turning their network into a personal and professional superpower. Through personalized coaching and strategic network building, she helps leaders make and maintain critical relationships that grow careers, generate business, and unlock infinite opportunities.

Veronica is a graphic designer and illustrator that specializes in visual storytelling. She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2019 with a degree in Sequential Art. She currently works as a graphic designer at HireClix.

William Wiggins is a leading voice in the global human resources community. He has held consulting and strategic HR roles at Mercer Human Resources Consulting, Kaiser Permanente, and Williams-Sonoma. He has a proven track record for building employee engagement through leadership training and development, and building sound employee recognition programs. He is an industry leader when it comes to building strong collaborative HR partnerships and leadership teams that focus on the staff engagement, retention, career development, and staff recognition programs. William’s training curriculum includes Crucial Conversations, Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace, and EEOC 101. He believes that an organization’s human capital is their most valuable asset.