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TAG Recruiting
TAG Recruiting Purpose
- To serve as THE forum for the exchange of information and a medium for the practice, study, and research of issues related to recruiting in technology companies.
- To assist and encourage it's members to advance their knowledge, skill and competency in the field of recruiting.
- To provide additional TAG membership benefits, including education, peer interaction and networking.
- To leverage experience and expertise of TAG members as discussion leaders and resources for the societies.
- To serve as a vehicle to interest new members.
- To promote the use of sound and ethical recruiting practices To further the goals of TAG, especially by enhancing its ability to understand, embrace and be a voice for issues in the recruiting function.
The best-selling business book "Good to Great" says the first step in making a business world-class isn't the right design or the right price…it's finding the right people and making sure they're in the right job.
TAG's Recruiting SIG helps our members find the right people for the job. This is the forum for learning how to study, research and practice sound and ethical recruiting practices. The goal at each Recruiting SIG meeting is to share experiences and expertise among fellow members - and to help companies find and hire the right tech employees.
TAG's Recruiting SIG meets the third Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm-7:30pm at the MAtrix Resources offices in the 1st floor assembly room. Click here for directions.
Visit TAG Recruiting's community group page here!
2011 Calendar of Events
| Meeting Date |
Meeting Topic |
Speaker |
| January 17, 2012
|
How to Win the Poker Game of Recruiting | Eric Jaquith |
| February 21, 2012 | Performance-Based HiringReinventing the Recruiting Process to Deliver Top Talent | Brian Johansen |
| March 20, 2012 |
Search Engine Optimization Strategies for Recruiting |
Shannon Meyers |
| June 19, 2012 | Future Trends In Recruiting and the Workplace |
Kevin Wheeler
|
You’re Invited!
The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)
Recruiting Society’s
January 2012 Meeting
Please note our new Meeting Location below!
Tuesday, January 17th 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
South Terraces Building
(115 Perimeter Center Place, NE, 1st Floor Lobby Auditorium)
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“How to Win the Poker Game of Recruiting”
Over the past few years, the discussion of candidate qualifications between recruiters and hiring managers during an intake meeting has become much like a Saturday night poker game with friends, says presenter Eric Jaquith. The players put on their best “poker face” and devise a strategy that often involves withholding critical information from each other (intentional or not). That lack of critical information dramatically affects the outcome and who “wins”. But winning the poker game of recruiting (presenting the right candidate for the right job at the right time, every time) involves much more than simply discussing and looking for required and desired skills…you must know what additional critical information to gather upfront and how to quickly access and utilize it most effectively to win!
Eric will show us how to “think differently” when playing the recruiting game and will share some of his unique “must know” secrets, tips and tricks. Learn to improve your recruiting skills, utilizing the same strategies used to win poker games, and dramatically increase your odds of “winning” each time you play!
Featuring our Subject Matter Expert:
Eric Jaquith
Global Recruiting & Sourcing Project Manager
Cost: free for members
$20 for non-members
Meeting Time: 5:30 – 6:00 PM – Networking and Registration
6:00 – 7:30 PM – Presentation
Registration: Please pre-register for this event online. To register
go to http://www.tagonline.org/tag-recruiting.php
Location: South Terraces Building
115 Perimeter Center Place, NE
The meeting is in the Auditorium off the lobby 1st floor
Map and Driving Directions On the US map, click on GA,
scroll down and click on “maps and directions”.
Park in the parking garage (parking is free). Walk to the
building. Go in to the lobby and walk past the security
guard to the Auditorium which is in the northwest corner
of the lobby.
TAG Recruiting Society Board
Gary Shaar, Chairman
With more than 11 years experience in contract recruiting and executive search and over 20 years in government and corporate leadership roles, Gary is a subject matter expert in finding, assessing and hiring top talent. He has conducted hundreds of searches in his career across a number of industries and is well versed at defining job roles and placing highly qualified people in them.
Among the positions he has held are Director of Recruiting for Comcast/AT&T Broadband, Manager of Recruiting for the East Coast for Global Crossing Telecommunications, and Executive Recruiter for Romac International Information Technology. He has completed successful recruiting projects for Microsoft, Time Warner Cable, Pike's Nursery, Golden State Foods, JBoss Software, ChoicePoint and Jackson Healthcare. In addition, Gary has been an Outplacement Consultant for Spherion and has personally coached over one hundred people through the job transition process. Gary is currently Director and Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant for Talent Connections, LLC, a firm specializing in recruiting process outsourcing (RPO), executive search, recruiting process consulting and contract recruiting services.
Society Board Members
| Ronnie Bratcher |
Senior Contract Recruiter, Arete Alliance, LLC |
| Jason Belknap |
Staffing Consultant, Mirant Corporation |
| Jon Bryant | Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, InsideConnector, Inc. |
| Sheri Dresser |
President and Senior Recruiting Consultant, Dresser Search |
| Chris Havrilla | National Recruiting Manager, Hitachi Consulting |
| Jeff Klein |
Staffing Consultant, Mirant Corporation |
|
Katie Sewell |
TAG Society Liaison |
| Gary Shaar |
Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant, Talent Connections, LLC |
| Jason Singer |
Recruting Team Lead, Matrix Resources |
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