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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 Mirant Corporation offices in the 1st floor assembly room. Click here for directions.

2010 Calendar of Events

Meeting Date	Meeting Topic	Speaker
January 19	Social Media Recruting Boot Camp	Jenny DeVaughn
February 16	How to Gain a Recruiting Competitive Advantage Without Becoming an Easy Target	Eric Jaquith
March 16	Social Recruiting - What Does This Mean for Joe/Joanna Recruiter?	Chris Havrilla
April 20	Recruiter Personal Marketing and Branding	Linda Travis
May 18	Best Recruiting Strategies (Corp, Agency, & Contract)	TBD
June 15	Hidden Talent Pools	Glen Cathy
July	No Meeting
August	No Meeting
September 21	TBD
October 19	TBD
November 16	TBD
December	Holiday Social

You're invited!

TAG Recruiting Presents: Social Recruiting – What does this mean for Joe/Joanna Recruiter?

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 -- 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Mirant Corporation (see above for directions)

Please join us for the final session of the 3-part series on Social Media and Recruiting with guest speaker Chris Havrilla. Chris will be facilitating an ‘unconference’ style session to discuss how to embark upon or fine tune your Social Recruiting initiative by incorporating social media/networking tools with good old fashioned networking and relationship building. Don’t worry, she’s heard it all – so expect a lively discussion that should include what ‘social recruiting’ is, where to start, how to learn, what you’re missing, how to measure success, and what to do if you (or your boss) think you don’t have time – or think it’s a waste of time.

Chris’s computer will be fired up to demonstrate anything needed but be warned -- this is a no presentation, interactive discussion, so please bring your questions, ideas, experiences and opinions. By the end of this session you should walk away with some feasible ideas and real world examples to more easily grow and nurture your network and be a part of the conversation with current and potential candidates and clients.

Guest Speaker: Chris Havrilla – National Recruiting Manager, Hitachi Consulting

Chris started her career as an IT professional and consultant, eventually finding her true passion in the Recruiting/Sourcing community. She is currently serving as National Recruiting Manager at Hitachi Consulting. She has also worked with companies such as Eclipsys, Deloitte, Computer Task Group (CTG), and Georgia-Pacific. As a consultant she had clients ranging from SMB markets to the Fortune 100. She holds a BBA in MIS from the University of Georgia. She is actively involved (speaking, writing, participating) in several local and national groups/associations and has also served as a member of Monster.Com's Advisory Board and AIRS Recruitment Technology Council.

For additional information and to pre-register, please select the available hyperlink above.

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	Talent Acquisition Services, Concourse
Chad Godhard	Employment Manager, Sage Software
Jeff Klein	Staffing Consultant, Mirant Corporation
Gary Shaar	Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant, Talent Connections, LLC
Jason Singer	Recruting Team Lead, Matrix Resources