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Meet recruitDC Spring 2015 Keynote Speaker – Carmen Hudson

April 16, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

Closing Keynote Presentation – Carmen Hudson
Carmen Hudson

You Got This! Tools and Inspiration for the Modern Recruiter

Google the words “recruiters are”.  Go ahead. Did the autofill results shock you?  Probably not.  We’re not in the most celebrated profession. Ever the optimist, Carmen is convinced that recruiters can turn this around. We have an important job, and for many, our work is the difference between a thriving, successful company and a company in the grips of a deathly downward spiral.  Carmen will spend some time to convince you, cajole you, challenge you, celebrate you and catapult you toward recruiting excellence.  She’ll show you some tools that will help you be more productive, and some best practices and strategies that might make you reconsider how you recruit.

Carmen Hudson wears several hats.  She is currently Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox, and co-founder of the first ever conference focused on tech recruiting, Talent42. Carmen draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on helping organizations attract, source and recruit top talent.

Strategic Sourcing Depth

Carmen’s expertise is in helping clients build the right sourcing and recruiting strategies, and implementing them in the real world of limited budgets, competing priorities, and highly competitive recruiting environments.  She consults and trains companies to help them leverage high ROI solutions for big sourcing, social media, and technology implementation initiatives. 

Carmen is a self-described “recruiting geek” who has spent years learning, creating, and sharing best practices around sourcing and talent acquisition.  She gets that technology – for all of its hype – is still a means to an end, not an end in itself.  Her corporate experience includes Yahoo!, where she was Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition.  At Yahoo!, she led the Strategic Sourcing team, revitalizing the employee referral program and Yahoo’s employer brand.  The team was awarded a coveted Yahoo! Superstar Award, an ERE Excellence award and various recruiting and advertising industry awards.  Prior to joining Yahoo!, she was manager, Global Strategic Sourcing for Starbucks Coffee Corporation, where she developed sourcing strategies and recommended resources and tactics to support U.S. retail management hiring. She has also held senior talent acquisition roles at Microsoft, Amazon.com and Capital One.

A Recognized Voice in the Recruitment Community

Carmen is a regular contributor to recruiting industry publications, including ERE Exchange and Recruiting Trends.  She is a frequent speaker at recruiting events, including ERE, SourceCon, the Social Recruiting Summit, LinkedIn Talent Connect and the Seattle Staffing Management Association. She is a Talent Board advisory board member, and has authored sections of the Candidate Experience Awards summary results. In 2012, Carmen and John Vlastelica launched Talent42, a groundbreaking conference that brought together leaders in engineering and technical recruiting. In 2009, she founded Tweetajob, the first social job distribution engine.

True to her passion, she blogs and tweets about the recruiting industry, social media, job search and recruiting technology.   Follow her on Twitter.

 

Filed Under: recruitDC Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: Candidate Experience, Career Path, Carmen Hudson, recruitDC, recruitDC event, recruiting, speakers

Meet recruitDC Spring 2015 Keynote Speaker – J.T. O'Donnell

April 14, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

Opening Keynote Presentation – J.T. O’Donnell
How the Pursuit of the Sophisticated Job Seeker Can Re-energize Your Recruiting Career

JT Odonnell

In this session, J.T. O’Donnell will share how the emerging “sophisticated job seeker” can actually help recruiters feel more inspired in their jobs. Today’s top talent are approaching their careers differently – and that’s good news for recruiters who are feeling burnt out by the current process. Learn tips for engaging these candidates in ways that will excite you and remind you just how important (and fun!) your job can be.

Jeanine Tanner “J.T.” O’Donnell is the Founder & CEO of CAREEREALISM and CareerHMO. O’Donnell is a career strategist who helps American workers of all ages find greater professional satisfaction. Unlike other advisers, O’Donnell works with both individual clients and corporations, giving her access to emerging workforce trends. In addition to helping professionals, O’Donnell is experienced in company storytelling and helps companies strategize ways to reveal their talent brand to obtain top talent. With 18+ years of experience, managing, training, and coaching people of all ages on a wide variety of career topics, O’Donnell is a Nationally Syndicated Career Advice Author in 130+ Newspapers. O’Donnell is also a LinkedIn Influencer with 950K+ Followers. Follow her @jtodonnell.

Filed Under: recruitDC Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, J-T- O'Donnell, recruitDC, recruitDC event, speakers

Turning The Tables – Job Searching As A Recruiter

October 6, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

As recruiters, we’re uniquely positioned to see job searches on a daily basis. We see how they start, the progression of the interview cycle, and the end of the cycle where a candidate lands in their new job. As is often true, it’s hard to see something clearly when you are right on top of it. Recruiters are notorious for being good at facilitating this type of life change for others, but for also having a very hard time to do it for themselves.
Many questions start to surface as you prepare to dive into the job search as a recruiter marketing yourself. Is my resume up to date? Who have I kept in touch with? Who do you reach out to? It’s also interesting to think about how recruiters perceive candidate experience when they are in the middle of a search….for themselves. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Candidate Experience, Career Path, Job Search, networking, Recruiters, Social Media

What Do Recruiting & Bartending Have In Common?

August 26, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Celinda Appleby
Over at HP, we have been having a conversation amongst our Global Talent Acquisition team about “What makes a Great Recruiter?” on our internal social media network. The responses from our Recruiters have been really awesome! However, all I keep thinking about is how recruiting is like bartending. Maybe I am in need of a happy hour… but I have come up with three ways on how recruiting is like bartending. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, celinda appleby, networking, recruiting

8 Honest Tips For Transitioning Veterans

May 29, 2014 by recruitdc 2 Comments

By Tim McHugh

As a veteran many of us have been put in circumstances and positions that our civilian counterparts will never fathom much less truly understand.  Unfortunately, far too many veterans believe these experiences somehow entitle them to a career in the civilian world.  As veterans transition to the for profit world many don’t have a good idea how to transfer their military skills and experience to civilian life.  Many veterans have unrealistic expectations of what civilian companies are looking for and why they might not be a perfect fit – today for what they want.  As a veteran and now a small business owner with 20 employees, here are some very honest and blunt tips for veterans making the transition to civilian life: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, Government Contracting, Job Search, Military, Military Transition, networking, Veterans

10 Tips For A True Personal Brand

March 21, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Susan LaMotte and Pete Radloff
The internet. For all its beauty and brawn, it’s like candy to a kid.  There’s always room for more. Unless you’re managing a personal brand, meaning, you’re calling yourself an expert and purport to be the “industry’s leading…” or the “foremost expert on….” The field in which we work, human resources, has it’s share of experts—from recruiting to Gen Y to organizational design.  But for every expert, there’s an online personal brand and many of them are painfully obvious.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, Personal Branding, Pete Radloff, recruiting, Social Media, Susan LaMotte

Have We Lost our Olympic Fever for Recruiting?

March 12, 2014 by recruitdc 10 Comments

By Kathleen Smith

The Olympics are over, (or did you even know there were on?) I remember growing up watching Nadia Comancei reach the perfect 10, Mark Spitz setting records for swimming and watching the swoosh of Dorothy Hamill’s hair. We looked to these idols, not only in sports, but in every day and every way because they were great professionals.

I work with recruiters every day, and each day, I learn that each recruiter has developed their career in a different way; either starting out as recruiters, sales people or human resources and then they “made it up” along the way. Some had mentors, some were just thrown into the deep end of the pool, others maybe they took a course or maybe they just had a natural talent for it and it just clicked like Michael Phelps.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, Kathleen Smith, mentoring, networking, Olympics, Project SAVE, recruiting, We Recruit DC

20 Years Recruiting In DC – What I've Learned From Some Amazing People

February 21, 2014 by recruitdc 8 Comments

By Ben Gotkin
20 years. 2 decades.  It feels like a long time to be doing anything, and it forces you to reflect on some things.   As I enter my 20th year in the recruiting profession, I think back to a few of those who I learned from and influenced me early in my career.  It’s been quite a journey, a journey that I wanted to share with you. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ben Gotkin, Career Path, LinkedIn, recruitDC, recruiting, washington

Veterans: Sell Your Talent, Not Your Title

January 9, 2014 by recruitdc 6 Comments

ed. note: This post was originally published here on December 8, 2013.  It was republished here with permission from the author.
By Bob Wheeler

There’s a lot of PR going on right now around the topic of veteran hiring.  Private organizations are picking up on the terrific talent pool coming out of the armed forces and many even have specific outreach programs designed to attract recently separated military personnel.  Let’s be clear though, no one will hire us because we are veterans, they will hire us because we have something to offer their company.

If you’re still on active duty, look around your unit (if you’ve recently separated think back to your last one).  Do you believe everyone in that group was equally talented?  We as veteran job seekers can be quick to point out things like “NCO’s make great managers”, which is true.  But can you really say that every NCO you worked for was great? Can you even say that all of them were even adequate?  The same goes with every job and billet in the military. Not every Commanding Officer is an awesome leader. Not every Supply Officer can handle logistics in an exceptional manner. Not every technician is trusted to work on the most critical of equipment.

By definition, everyone in your unit is a veteran.  But not all of them are talented.

Veteran (adj) Talent (n)

In the military we focus on mission accomplishment for the unit, not necessarily the individual. This is why you may see a unit or staff function succeed even despite the obvious inadequacies of certain individuals.  I’ve seen officers that would never survive without their subordinates going above and beyond their job description. I’ve also seen officers put in ungodly amounts of extra supervision (and sometimes even hands on work) to make the mission succeed because they were dealt a lousy hand in terms of NCO’s.

In order to succeed on the job market then, we need to ensure we sell our talents, not our titles. When recruiters are tasked with finding veteran talent, the word veteran is the adjective, not the noun.

The following are some tips on how to do just that.

1 – Make sure your resume (and LinkedIn Profile) lists actual accomplishments, and understand that being responsible for something isn’t an accomplishment.

2 – Learn about industries that you would like to work in after the military to understand what types of metrics they use to define success. Seek to put yourself in positions to do the same type of measurable work while still on active duty.

3 – Keep steady and accurate documentation of your success.  If the success metrics for the civilian world don’t exactly line up with the success metrics of your current billet in the military, so be it. Just keep parallel documentation.  In the end, your performance evaluations can help you build a civilian resume, but they can’t replace it.

The ability to demonstrate our talents is critical to success on the job market.  The best advice is to start early in your career to find ways to put yourself into positions to learn, grow, and ultimately perform, at the tasks valued by private organizations. It’s only when we demonstrate the talent that the adjective “Veteran” gets a chance to work it’s magic.

Bob Wheeler is currently on active duty where he recruits physicians for the US Navy.  He will be retiring from the service in June of 2014 and has been blogging about his transition process at http://veterantransitiondiary.wordpress.com/. You can find Bob on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter @sailordoc.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bob Wheeler, Career Path, Military, Recruiters, Veterans

Why recruitDC ?

December 19, 2013 by recruitdc 2 Comments

By Pete Radloff
It’s the end of 2013, and as is customary with December, it’s a time for us to reflect back on the previous year. 2013 was a great year for me professionally and it was also a tremendous year for recruitDC. But recruitDC took on a new, deeper meaning for me this year.

I’m often asked why I participate in recruitDC and what the benefit is for me. It’s never an easy answer, mostly because there are so many reasons I’m lucky and proud to be associated with such a great organization. It’s great for networking, and learning, as well as getting to meet those people that you “only know through LinkedIn”. Earlier in my career, I always hoped I’d get to a point where I didn’t need to put my resume on a dozen job boards, or have to apply to a number of companies that I didn’t necessarily know too much about. I wanted to reach a point where I’d built up a strong enough network to be able to reach out to some key contacts and get introduced to some amazing opportunities. This year was finally the year that all came to fruition.

I was laid off in the summer, and as with anyone going through this, panic is usually the first feeling that sets in. That’s often followed by more panic action, lots and lots of action to keep the pipeline flowing and increase the number of opportunities available to you. With the network I had built over the years, through my past jobs and groups like Project SAVE and recruitDC I was able to get some great leads on opportunities, and wound up landing on my feet. (Yes, there is more to it, but grab me for a beer after the next event and we’ll talk)

So when someone who hasn’t heard of recruitDC or is new to the group asks me what the benefits are, here’s what I tell them:

  • You’ll learn.  A LOT. You’ll get insight and best practices from some of the best folks in the Talent Acquisition field. We’re able to bring in speakers and practitioners from all over the country.
  • You can sell it to your boss. It won’t cost you $5000 to attend recruitDC. It’s local, you’ll be back the same day or the next day, and you don’t have to crush your department budget to get some professional development.
  • You can start implementing right away. What you learn at recruitDC, you can put into practice right away, and start improving how your organization approaches talent immediately.
  • You’ll meet great colleagues. recruitDC gives you plenty of time to mix and mingle, share best practices, and get to know others who can help you along the way in your career.
  • You can build your reputation. By attending events, meetups and mini-sessions, you’ll be able to share your expertise that you’ve acquired over the years. Since we’re a grassroots organization, we’re always looking to promote our own local superstars.
  • Opportunities to “Pay It Forward”. I was fortunate to have some tremendous talent surrounding me early in my career, and probably one of the best mentors I could have ever asked for. recruitDC provides a nurturing culture for people to seek out those who can help them get to the next level. There’s no substitute for great people looking out for your career.

There’s probably a dozen other reasons that I could share, but we’ve all got holiday cookies to attend to, guard, hoard, enjoy. so if you haven’t been active in recruitDC this year, I strongly encourage you to come on out and spend some time with us in 2014. And grab me to have that beer….I love to geek out on some recruiting talk.

Pete Radloff is a member of the recruitDC Board of Directors, and a recruitment consultant with NPR and exaqueo. You can connect with Pete on LinkedIn and on Twitter

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, Meetup, networking, recruitDC, Tweetup

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