Job Hunting and Networking for Recruiters – Flipping the Talent Acquisition Script
Whether you’re a recruiter or sourcer who has recently been impacted by a layoff, or you’re still employed and you’re anxious about the future, this session is for you.
Join our panel of talent acquisition peers for an insightful and candid discussion about job hunting and networking for people who are typically doing the hiring.
Our guest speakers will share powerful networking activities that recruiters can take now in order to accelerate their job search.
Key takeaways of this discussion will include:
- Job hunting resources
- Personal/professional branding secrets
- How to source your next job
- Lesser-known portals where TA jobs are shared
Mike Rasmussen
The Source and Recruit Company
Michael Rasmussen is a Sr Recruiter and a seasoned HR Veteran. All in 18+ total years in HR disciplines with both a Generalist, Specialist focus. His main focus is his passion for Staffing/Recruitment which is his main HR discipline impact for most of his career.
In Mike's Staffing tenure he has been instrumental in 1500+ Placements which includes both Sourcing and Full Cycle Staffing projects with both Staffing Agency and Internal Corporate environments.
His Career includes industry experience in High Tech, The Defense Industry, Network Storage, Software, Pharma, Bio-Tech, Start-ups, Public Sector, Retail, Operations, HR, Legal, Professional Services, Consulting Services, IT and many more. Mike has both domestic US, and International HR experience.
Kat Kibben
Founder and Principal Consultant
Three Ears Media
Kat Kibben believes your first impression on candidates starts at the job post. Many small businesses and companies struggle to find their recruiting voice and craft less-than appealing job postings. As CEO of Three Ears Media and a featured expert in recruiting and HR, Kat takes a unique, strategic approach to help companies rewrite candidate experience content, overhaul job descriptions, and attract more qualified applicants.
Greg Hawkes
Strategic Talent Sourcer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Greg Hawkes is a Strategic Talent Sourcer, Speaker, Author, and Founder of the HRSourcingToolbox. He has worked as both a Technical Recruiter and Sourcing Analyst for healthcare, engineering, biotechnology, manufacturing and many other industries. He has been in the recruitment field for over 10 years, and got into heavy sourcing and headhunting back in 2012. He is an ongoing contributor to SourceCon – with topics ranging from Site Searches and CSEs, to Deep Dives andURL Sourcing. While preparing to speak at SourceCon 2017, he built the HRSourcingToolbox with a large inventory of Free Recruitment and Sourcing Tools. He has recently joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as a Strategic Sourcer and loving every minute of it! He is a huge fan of emerging technologies and Boolean Syntax and always willing to share a technique or hack to find the elusive purple squirrel.
Glenn Gutmacher
Talent Sourcing Training Mgr.
NVIDIA
Glenn Gutmacher is Talent Sourcing Training Manager at NVIDIA and formerly in full-time sourcer or sourcing manager roles at billion-dollar annual revenue firms such as Microsoft, Getronics, State Street, and Huron Consulting. A frequent contributor to SourceCon penning numerous articles and creator of its SourceCon Labs (2009) and Programming & Automation (2017) conference session tracks, he was a pioneer of sourcing training in the ‘90s when he launched the world’s first all-web-based “internet recruiting” course eventually taught to thousands of recruiters.