Jason Pankow is a Senior Recruiter for Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE and Xbox Software groups. Jason supports the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, bringing in technical as well as creative talent to Redmond. Look him up on Xbox Live, where he’ll ring you up for a triple-double as Steve Nash on NBA 2K8 or kick it old-school via a 7-digit score …
Meet Jessica Lee
Jessica Lee is a Vice President for Talent Acquisition at APCO Worldwide, a global PR firm headquartered in the heart of Washington, D.C. She spends most of her time recruiting, but she’s an HR generalist at heart. So go ahead! Throw an employee relations issue her way – she’s not scared. When Jessica’s not hammering a candidate to determine Motivational …
Meet Christine LeLacheur – Covering Recruiting for Fistful of Talent…
Christine LeLacheur is a Branch Manager for Executrade in Calgary, specializing in placements in the booming energy industry. NOTE – full bio on the way below…. See Christine’s Riffs and Rants on Fistful of Talent by clicking here… ___________________________________________________________________________________ 10.5 QUESTIONS WITH CHRISTINE LELACHEUR 1. The elevator just closed and you’ve got 30 seconds to pitch the random reader on …
Meet Michael Homula – Covering Talent and Recruiting for Fistful of Talent…
Michael Homula is the founder of Bearing Fruit Consulting, a national recruiting consulting firm based out of Michigan. Prior to founding BFC, Michael served as a Director of Recuiting/Talent Management for multiple companies in the Financial Services industry. Back in those days, Michael would remove overdraft protection for any candidate rejecting an offer. Now Michael has to work at it …
Meet Beth Kobermann – Covering Gen Y and Recruiting for Fistful of Talent…
Beth Kobermann is a Sr. HR Generalist at Honeywell. As you might expect, we love it when the youngsters on the team call other Gen Y’s out for the pity parties they’re holding. A true believer in "action, not words" and taking responsibility for her own career, Beth got this job when she said she wanted to write at Fistful …
Meet Tim Tolan – Covering Executive Recruiting for Fistful of Talent…
Tim Tolan is a partner at Sanford Rose Associates and specializes in Executive Search in Healthcare IT. He’s a closer, and you really don’t want to call him unless you’re ready to bring out the bazooka to bag some big game. When I started Fistful, I checked four references on Tim – his wife, his kids, his pastor and a …
Meet Michael Wolfe – Covering Corporate Recruiting for Fistful of Talent…
Michael Wolfe is a HR Manager for SourceMedical, a medical software firm focused on solutions for the outpatient surgery and therapy markets. As part of his role with SourceMedical, Michael spends a lot of time recruiting, and talking to "interesting" candidates. When he’s not at SourceMedical, Michael’s checking the reception on his blackberry constantly to make sure he’s digital, not …
Meet Kelly Dingee – Covering Candidate Sourcing for Fistful of Talent…
Kelly Dingee is a Strategic Recruiting Manager for Staffing Advisors. She has extensive sourcing experience having worked for AIRS, as a Sourcing Researcher/Technical Writer, performed contract sourcing for Thales Communications, Inc., and got hers tart in the profession while a full life cycle recruiter at Acterna (now known as JDSU). Lucky for Kelly, she had a boss who could see …
Meet Jennifer McClure – Covering Recruiting and Networking for Fistful of Talent…
Meet Jennifer McClure – Covering Recruiting and Coaching for Fistful of Talent… Jennifer McClure is a Vice President at Centennial, Inc., a Cincinnati-based recruitment and coaching firm, where she’s charged with strategic recruiting efforts, executive coaching and business development for the firm. When she’s not looking up values on NotchUp, she’s rating human capital values by ranking the individuals …
Meet Maren Hogan – Covering Recruiting and Gen Y for Fistful of Talent…
Maren Hogan is a millennial living the dream in Omaha, Nebraska. When she’s not plotting the downfall of Gen Xer’s like me, she’s doing marketing and development for an IT recruiting and outsourcing firm called HCI. When she’s not at HCI, she’s blogging at Big O Recruiting and becoming addicted to Twitter… See Maren’s Rants and Riffs on Fistful of …