Recruitment Community Europe

Alan Whitford has over 20 years experience in the start-up and expansion of high technology businesses in Europe as the founder and owner of Abtech Partnership. He is a co-founder of RCE. Since 1997, Alan has concentrated on providing strategic and practical insights to the automation and web-enablement of Human Resource and Recruitment Process activities throughout Europe. Clients include Times 500 companies and software and services vendors in the Human Resources and e-commerce arenas.

Recruitment Community Europe

Keith has spent over 25 years in the publishing and media industry. He is as co-founder of RCE. In 2000, Keith was headhunted into a fledgling totaljobs.com, one of the earliest and at that point no. 5 ranked job board in the crowded UK market. He personally took totaljobs from being known only as a UK brand to become an internationally recognised leader in the recruiter community through the creation of The Network. The Network is a consortium of universally recognised job boards which includes national market leaders in 32 countries on 5 continents.

Global Learning Resources

Kevin is a globally known speaker, author, teacher and consultant in human capital acquisition and development, as well as in corporate education. His extensive career, global client base, and research affiliations make GLR a leading provider of both human resource strategy and process advice and counsel. He is the author of numerous articles on human resource development, career development, recruiting, and on establishing corporate universities.

VP of Arbita & JobMachine.net

As Vice President for Arbita's Consulting & Education Services (ACES) division, Glenn brings over a decade of experience as a sourcing consultant and presenter of workforce development workshops for recruiting teams at numerous companies from the Fortune 500 and top-tier staffing firms on down. He has raised the sourcing/recruitment research skill level of thousands of industry professionals over many public and private live seminars and webinars. Before joining Arbita in 2008, Glenn was senior recruiting researcher for three years at Microsoft and the preceding two years as lead Internet sourcer and career site webmaster for Getronics. In 1996, he founded one of the worldís first regional newspaper job boards, winning the international newspaper industry's two most prestigious awards in 1998. Ever since creating one of recruiting's first Internet sourcing training seminars in 1997, Glenn remains a leading innovator in online sourcing methods and applying automation tools to recruiting. He writes prolifically for recruiting trade publications, portals and his own highly-regarded blog, .Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques

Director of Resourcing Communications
Alexander Mann Solutions

Martin joined AMS in December 2006 to develop employer branding, advertising and communication services for our clients. Additionally, Martin works closely with Marketing and Resourcing on building AMS as an employer brand and developing our brand in the candidate marketplace. Martin spent 6 years working for Euro RSCG Worldwide, one of the world's largest global advertising groups. As a board director of the Riley division, Martin had responsibility for 2 advertising agencies as well as the development of strategic services such as employer branding, diversity , graduate and digital recruitment. He's a recognised expert on employer brand, graduate recruitment and internet recruitment thinking and has worked internationally with clients including Airbus, Deloitte, Prudential, S&N, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, Fast Track Teaching, T-Mobile, BP and British Airways. He has also spoken at numerous conferences on global graduate recruitment.

Maximum Nl

Ed Barzilaij is one of the founders and CEO of Maximum Employment Marketing Group. With roots in Europe, Maximum is the largest employment marketing and communication agency in Mainland China. Ed Barzilaij has devoted his entire career to developments in employment marketing and communication. Having served at both local and international agencies, his reservoir of knowledge in recruitment is boundless. The recent expansion to Shanghai, but also his passion for China, is the source of his thorough understanding of the employer branding and recruitment industry in China.

Maximum Nl

Yvon Niu, is born and raised in China and has been living and studying in Europe for 13 years. Her Chinese background, combined with a Master's degree in Business Administration at the Erasmus University in the Netherlands, allows her to understand the differences, similarities and challenges of the HR field in Europe and Asia. Yvon's active participation in the talent market research of Maximum in China supports her in this respect and provides her with up-to-date knowledge and insights of the Chinese talent market.

Stringer Executive Search

Hank Stringer’s unique experiences and expertise include over 30 years of global recruitment experience in the US and Asia, 12 years as a visionary entrepreneur in the recruitment technology marketplace and as an author and international speaker on Talent Acquisition and Management.  As founder of Hire.com from 1996 to 2006, Hank and his team created many of the processes used in today’s corporate career sites and public job portals. Hank has returned to his roots and first passion, Executive Search where his firm Stringer Executive Search is sowing the seeds today to redefine the global executive search industry of tomorrow.

CEO Ulysses Consulting

Author of "Social Networks Around The World: how is Web 2.0 changing your daily life?" Organiser of ThinkTomorrow.eu, the first European conference on the business value of Social Networks and Web 2.0. Professional speaker on HR, recruitment and Web 2.0. Headhunter for the ICT market with a business approach.

Electronic Arts

Head of Global Talent Brand at Electronic Arts
Matthew Jeffery is the Global Head of Talent Brand for Electronic Arts, the leading developer & publisher of interactive entertainment. Games produced include FIFA, Tiger Woods, Harry Potter, The Sims, Spore, God Father, Dead Space, Need for Speed, Burnout, Hasbro Games, Pogo.com online gaming and Tetris on Mobile. He possesses 10 years recruitment experience and over 5 years Marketing & Sales experience. Before heading up EA’s E-Brand, Matthew was the Head of European Studio Recruitment for EA. Previous to EA, Matthew worked for TMP in Executive Search & Selection. Matthew started his career with NatWest, after Graduating with a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics. Matthew is well known for innovation in recruiting and for his passionate oratory and his fireworks presentation style.

Google EMEA

Current role involves expanding Google's advertising opportunities to the recruitment industry through education, research, senior level meetings and consultation. Luke manages a team of professionals who support Google's client base in this area. Previously a software sales and consulting professional with substantial experience in e-recruitment and Internet industries. Has worked successfully within start-up and high growth businesses. Also had early experience in providing consulting services to SME's, fostering entrepreneurial behaviour in disadvantaged communities in South Africa.

Attract HR
Director

Martin is a recruitment strategy specialist whose experience spans application technology, Online Marketing, Recruitment Communications, RPO managed service, national and international search and selection and operational strategy delivery. With over 19 years of recruitment industry experience behind him Martin has seen many views of the recruitment sector while working in a number of different roles over the years.This has given him a great understanding of the good and bad practices that businesses have taken as they try to build a sustainable talent pool to meet their hiring needs.
Martin Joined Attract HR, a specialist company providing recruitment software tools & recruitment SEO services to the global HR and staffing sectors in 2007.

Rise.NL

Founder of Rise, with more than 12 years experience in the world of Internet recruitmen.  He remains fascinated by the possibilities of Internet (applications) in Recruitment. Ricardo was (in 2000) (co)founder of Career Portal (later sold to StepStone for a European rollout). In 2005 he started Rise Training and Consulting. Rise advises organizations with their recruitment processes via the Internet and trains professional recruiters who want to be one step ahead. Rise focusses on Google sourcing, Linkedin Recruitment and SEO for jobs.

People in Business

Sophy has been a senior consultant on employer brand development projects for a wide range of leading companies, including John Lewis, Man Group, Novozymes, PepsiCo and Unilever. She also brings considerable in-house experience within both resourcing, leadership and organisational development, following 7 years at BP. Her last project before leaving BP to join People in Business was a strategic review of the Challenge program, BP’s flagship graduate development offering.  She was educated in France, and has a degree in Law from Cambridge.

Global Resourcing Director
Unilever

Paul Maxin's recruitment career of over 20 years has been divided almost equally between the “sell” and the “buy” side. He is currently Global Resourcing Director at Unilever where is responsible for the design and delivery of a locally implemented global approach to resourcing policy, assessment and attraction.

Paul is both the recruitment SME and process owner globally for Unilever. He is actively engaged in their HR Transformation project which includes Unilever's seven year contract with Accenture to handle its transactional HR services in over 100 countries.

Prior to joining Unilever, Paul spent nearly 8 years as a Senior Recruitment Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was latterly responsible for international sourcing. Paul spent the first 10 years of his career in recruitment consultancy.

His hobbies include his family, travel writing, West Ham United (an English Soccer team) and an unhealthy encyclopaedic knowledge of Bob Dylan's music.

Intelligence Group

Geert-Jan Waasdorp is the founder and director of Intelligence Group, a research and consulting organization, specialized in labour market communication and recruitment. After his career as a labour market researcher at VNU, he started Intelligence Group in 2003. He's also co-founder of the AMC Academie, an educator on the subject of labour market communication and co-publishes the magazine 'Werf&'.
Intelligence Group has specialized knowledge of the labour market, recruitment and labour market communications, which is unique in the Dutch market. With 22 employees, Intelligence Group approaches the labour market in a down-to-earth way, helping many employers, publishers, advertising agencies and recruitment agents by giving them recruitment advice based on their specific target groups.

Van De Haterd Consultancy

Bas van de Haterd is a professional medler. That's like a consultant, but one that doesn't always keep to the job description. He helps companies implement new media in their recruitment process and founded Digitaal-Werven in the Netherlands. This is a yearly research initiative that measures the digital recruitment experience at corporates. This research answers questions as to how good a recruitment site is and what happens when a candidte actually tries to apply for a position. He is active as a trainer and consultant on the topics of recruitment, new style, Web 2.0 and recruitment, recruiting in social networks, using blogging for recruitment, building an employer brand. Active commentator on all things web and recruitment.

Milch und Zucker

His graduation in physics at the universities of Osnbrueck and Giessen in 1998 was followed - after being a freelance IT consultant - directly by the founding of milch & zucker. Along with managing the operational business within the company he is mainly responsible for developing milch & zuckers's software BeeSite and strengthening technology partnerships. Since 2000 milch & zucker is a specialist for HR websites/job boards and applicant tracking software.

Talent Q Group

Roger Holdsworth has worked in psychological testing for nearly 50 years, starting with 7 years in Sweden in the 1960s and 5 years at NIIP in the 1970s. In 1977 he founded (together with Peter Saville) the SHL Group, which became the world's largest psychological testing business, with 1,000 employees in 30 countries. After retiring from SHL, Roger has founded Talent Q to develop a new generation of on-line psychological assessment tools. Talent Q's personality questionnaire (“Dimensions”) is already available in 17 languages, and their adaptive ability tests (“Verbal and Numerical Elements”) will soon have reached more than 10 languages. Roger lives in Monaco, from where he directs Talent Q product development and the company's global network of partners.

Hire Strategies

Peter has been working in recruitment for over 20 years. During this time he has built an e-recruitment software company, ran across the Sahara desert and Amazon jungle, advised major employers on their e-recruitment strategy, published the 'Retailers Guide to E-recruitment', developed his own award winning blog and more recently set up the UK's first social network for Talent Management professionals. His company Hire Strategies has moved a lot faster than he runs and now focuses on putting social media into the workplace to underpin the Talent Management strategy in readiness for greater levels of automation in talent management.
For a somewhat controversial view on, and details of his planned Arctic run, his Talent Technology blog can both inform and lighten up your day! 

Carve Consulting

Paul Harrison is managing partner of Carve, a strategic digital consultancy that helps organisations build compelling employer brands and develop impactful talent attraction strategies. Carve has significant expertise in social media and search marketing, PR for HR, and online reputation management. Carve works with private, public and not-for-profit organisations, advertising agencies and recruitment consultancies.

Paul has worked in online recruitment for more than 10 years, having joined early corporate job board Taps.com in 1997. Paul started his career with Haymarket Publishing, following a degree in Mass Media Communications. Before launching Carve Consulting, Paul set up and developed the new media divisions of two leading UK recruitment advertising agencies. Prior to that, he was sales and marketing director at acumen web, now largest UK public sector job board JobsGoPublic.com.

Heineken International

Alison is Head of Resourcing for Heineken International having held a similar role in Scottish and Newcastle plc prior to the takeover of the business earlier in the year. Prior to this she headed up the Resourcing team in the UK following a period as an HR Business Partner. Her background is in Sales and Customer Marketing and she spend much of her time in Marketing working on Innovation and Brand launches in the UK.

Staffing & Relocation Manager EuropeGlobal Staffing Lead GIO
Agilent Technologies

Ted has been working in staffing for over 12 years and currently is the Staffing manager Europe at Agilent Technologies and based in Barcelona, Spain. He has the responsibility for all hiring processes in 15 countries managing a small staffing team of 2 recruiters and several RPO’s. Additionally he has the global responsibility for Agilent’s Global Infrastructure group. Before Agilent he worked as staffing manager Europe at Affiliated Computer Services where in 2 years he recruited the entire corporate structure while managing a recruitment team that dealt with large European outsourcing deals in Barcelona and Poland. That time can be described as being the most amazing rollercoaster ride with a lot of fun, learning and stress. Before that time he worked as consultant with Michael Page and Mercuri Urval as well as recruiter with Compuware while still living in the Netherlands. Ted’s expertise is around developing lean staffing processes and staffing models which has helped both ACS and Agilent to take their staffing organization to the next level.