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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.

Visit TAG Recruiting's community group page here!

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	Sharpen Your Brand for Rainmaking	Linda Travis
May 18	Best Recruiting Strategies - Audience Participation	Lorien Cunningham Greg Ellner Stephanie Lloyd
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: Hidden Talent Pools

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 -- 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Mirant Corporation (see above for directions)

Join us as the TAG Recruiting Society welcomes nationally renowned Recruiting trainer, speaker, and writer Glen Cathey. Glen serves as Vice President of Recruiting for Kforce, a large publicly traded staffing firm. In this role, Glen trains hundreds of recruiters nationally that are responsible for over 10,000 hires annually. Here is an overview of his topic "Hidden Talent Pools":

All candidate searches "work" - but how do you know you are finding all of the best candidates LinkedIn, Twitter, Job Board resumes databases, your ATS, etc. have to offer? Most people don't. During this session you will learn about the people you have direct and indirect access to that you currently can't and don't find, as well as tactics and strategies on how to specifically target them.

Whether you’re in a staffing agency, corporate setting or a contract recruiting gig, please come ready to learn and to ask questions about your most difficult searches. In addition to presenting the topic, Glen is prepared to answer questions throughout the session and will assist attendees in developing a systematic approach to finding rock star candidates. Space is limited, so please register early!

Guest Speaker:

Glen Cathey, VP, Recruiting -- Kforce

Glen Cathey lives in Tampa, FL and serves as Vice President of Recruiting for Kforce, a billion-dollar staffing firm. He has been described as the "database whisperer" for his unique ability to systematically manipulate queries and discover valuable information that others not only overlook, but often don't know exists. He is perhaps best known for his blog Boolean Black Belt (www.booleanblackbelt.com) where he shares his thoughts, experiences, and theories. Glen is a highly sought after speaker and has presented at national conferences such as SourceCon 2010 (keynote) and 2009 PDS Technology Conference in addition to providing private training for some of America's most recognized companies.

KMS Software Company is proud to be our June Meeting Sponsor for the TAG Recruiting Society!

KMS Software Company is the pioneer of Online Onboarding. The company is exclusively devoted to providing world class human capital management software that combines process automation and employee engagement technology to help strengthen the relationship during the onboarding process between employers and employees around the world.

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