#CoolHangouts #research
Originally shared by Tasha Bergson-Michelson
How do strong research skills help you get a job?
December 11, 2012 (1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific)
Join me in a conversation with Glen Cathey and Nick Whiteman. They will be introducing what it means to be a professional Sourcer, and how they use research skills to excel at their work.
This brief Hangout is the first in an occasional series highlighting career paths you might not otherwise encounter and the role search and research play in being successful.
What: Research Career Fair
Where: The Hangout will occur on www.google.com/+GoogleinEducation. The archive will be available at http://www.youtube.com/user/eduatgoogle.
Who:
Glen Cathey
Vice President, Global Sourcing and Talent Strategy
An industry-known thought leader and accomplished global recruiting innovator, Glen Cathey is the vice president of Global Sourcing and Talent Strategy for Randstad's recruitment process outsourcing business, Randstad Sourceright, which is responsible for nearly 100,000 hires per year. With more than 15 years of recruiting and staffing experience, Cathey leads the organization’s Sourcing Center of Expertise to deliver cutting-edge recruiting and sourcing strategies, best practices and market intelligence to Randstad Sourceright’s customers.
Pursuing a passion for optimizing every step of the recruiting life-cycle, Cathey is especially proficient at leveraging technology – including databases, social networks, applicant tracking systems, and the web – to help clients find, engage and hire the right individuals more quickly and effectively. Cathey draws from an extensive history of sourcing, recruiting and hiring IT professionals; but also provides thought leadership, training and support for the healthcare, government solutions, finance and accounting industries, with additional expertise in clinical research and internal hiring.
He is also author of Boolean Black Belt, a popular sourcing and recruiting blog with significant global readership, that attracts more than 12,000 unique visitors per month from more than 100 countries.
Nick Whiteman
Talent Sourcing Specialist
Nick has a B.S. of Business Administration and an M.A. in National Security Studies- Terrorism Studies. He has a varied business background ranging from Non-Destructive Testing (Industrial X-Ray) to the Recruiting and Staffing Industries. He is currently working for the foremost thought leaders in the Sourcing world for Randstad Sourceright, which requires him to utilize his business and research background to discover talent hidden amongst the deep pools of human capital data by implementing tools and techniques that allow him to leverage technology and social media to quickly identify candidates with the skill set and appropriate experience that fulfills the needs of the client.
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