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The beauty of a connected, networked world is the ability to form relationships around the world at internet-speed. The global corporation wants to embrace social networks: the investment, both in money and time is small, and the potential rewards are high and quick. But organizations that do successfully implement a global candidate network strategy understand one crucial element- that it's not about them.
More specifically, the best global recruitment plan is built around the candidate. This is commonly understood in any domestic talent acquisition goals, but somehow forgotten when applied beyond your home country's borders. Understanding culture, language, laws, and practices are important, but just a start. Beginning a (work)life long relationship is the goal, and using social networks can help get you there.
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Alan Whitford has over 20 years experience in the start-up and expansion of high technology businesses in Europe. Abtech provides strategic and practical insights to the automation and web-enablement of Human Resource and Recruitment Process activities throughout Europe. Alan is a frequent chairman and participant in European conference programmes. He has been published in a number of on-line and off-line media covering technical and strategic HR and Recruitment issues. Alan was one of the early Bloggers in the European recruitment and HR space.In addition to his long term career with Abtech, Alan is a co-founder of Recruitment Community Europe, launched to serve the European staffing and recruitment sector with a range of vertical community applications and services. RCE will partner and stimulate debate, best practices and knowledge sharing within the European Recruitment community. The signature event was the 4th annual Global Recruitment Conference in Amsterdam on 11-13 November 2008. www.globalrecruitmentconference.comWhitford served a 2 year term as an Advisory Board member of Hire.com, was a founding board member of the European Chapter of the HR-XML Consortium and is a founding member of the UK ORMC (On-line Recruitment Marketing Council).
In April of 2008, Jason joined Sun Microsystems as a Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant where he provides full-cycle recruiting, research and tools development expertise for the U.S. Engineering Staffing Team. Currently he is supporting the Software and Database Groups including the MySQL organization where he focuses on director level, mid level management and individual contributor roles. Jason has been involved in hi-tech recruitment for 13 years with Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, Cisco, Symantec and Intuit, where he brought his passion for discovering innovative approaches to finding top talent. He is a firm believer in using the internet to identify talent sources and communicate with global clients to reduce cost and increase efficiency. He owns a recruiting company called Talent Vortex which he launched in 2008.Jason earned his Bachelor's of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Western Michigan University. He grew up in South Bend, Indiana and now resides in Phoenix, AZ with a wife and two sons, where he is a licensed national US Soccer coach and trains two youth soccer teams.