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Electronic Arts Inc., employer of over 9000 worldwide, proudly announces on their career page that it encourages its employees to "tell it like it is" while playing rock music like the Foo Fighters and snippets from its newest games over the audio track. This is a company that realizes, at its core, the impact that innovative people have on business.
It also must compete globally for the hottest and brightest talent in a crowded virtual marketplace. It has assembled an ambitious and reaching strategy to attract and retain that talent, that focuses on the small events that change a passive candidate to an active one, and sets a goal of being nothing less than being "the ultimate go-to career destination for the best talent."
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Matthew Jeffery, one of the world's leading renowned recruitment strategists and futurologists is the Head of EMEA Talent Acquisition & Global Talent Brand for Autodesk. In this role he combines strategic & operational talent acquisition with a global role focused on raising employment brand awareness, to facilitate an increase in perception of Autodesk amongst key recruiting populations and hence, increase both quantity and quality of pipeline of candidates.
He was the Global Director of Talent Brand for Electronic Arts, the leading developer & publisher of interactive entertainment. Matthew possesses 10 years of recruitment experience and over five years of marketing & sales experience. Before heading up EA’s E-Brand, he was the Head of European Studio Recruitment for EA.
He was voted UK "Recruitment Personality of the Year" in the Recruiter Awards as well as a judge on the 2012 Recruiter Magazine awards and was the first international chairman & Keynote Speaker of ERE’s Spring Forum. He is author of thought leading articles including Recruitment 3.0: A Vision for the Future of Recruiting and Recruitment 4.0: Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Recruitment as a profit centre…and the Death of Recruitment Agencies. Which to date, have the most comments attributed to them, in ERE’s history.
An expert in employment (e-branding), marketing, public relations, ABL & BLL, talent hiring & recruitment strategy, recruitment technology, university relations, candidate pipeline building, candidate experience, public speaking, social networking and search & selection - Matthew has written articles and has been quoted in the following publications: Forbes, Wall St Journal, Daily Mail, Sun, BBC, Edge Magazine, Gamasutra, MCV, Games TM, Develop, GI.Biz, Game Daily, Gamespot, CG Tantra, CG Talk, Hollywood Reporter, Animation Reporter. Recent speaking engagements include: GDC, Siggraph, London Games Festival, Imagina Monaco, Nasscom India, Develop Conference, Encounters, SAND International Animation, Human Capital Institute, ERE, Global Recruitment Conference, LinkedIn London & Las Vegas, SR Conf, Tru London, and Employment Brand Summit.