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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
and Consulting, Inc.

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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