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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	Corp Recruiting Strategies for Social Media	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: How to Gain a Recruiting Competitive Advantage Without Becoming an Easy Target

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

Mirant Corporation (see above for directions)

Please join us for part 2 of our 3 part series on Social Media and Recruiting with guest speaker Eric Jaquith. Eric will present his pre-SourceCon presentation on a stealth researcher's approach to exploiting the silly ways large and small companies mismanage LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and posting. The session will show how even if you can never tweet, blog, or update your status, you can still be very effective at finding and engaging talent for your clients. Expect lots of practical ideas for sourcing teams to integrate and optimize the many free or affordable tools available. You'll learn tips and tricks to use daily, as well as valuable information for mobile-device users and virtual sourcers.

Guest Speaker: Eric Jaquith, Lead Recuiter - Jaquith & Company, Inc

Eric Jaquith brings more than 12 years of progressive recruiting project experience to his clients. He offers a unique brand of highly effective and efficient recruiting processes designed to deliver top-quality technology candidates quickly, producing impressive bottom-line results. He has become a sought-after strategic outsourcing business partner and consultant by both clients and peers. His client list includes such well-known companies as The Coca-Cola Company, IBM, HP, Microsoft, BT, McKesson, Home Depot, SAP America, Google, Lockheed Martin, Siebel, & several Internet security startups. With dozens of successfully completed projects, and a network of hundreds of recruiting professionals, he continues to innovate and offers practical, affordable solutions for his clients and friends.

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
Chad Godhard	Employment Manager, Sage Software
Gary Shaar	Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant, Talent Connections, LLC
Jason Singer	Recruting Team Lead, Matrix Resources
Chuck Stichweh	Director Franchise Development & Technical Support, Sanford Rose Associates