Danielle Monaghan -- Roel Lambrichts

How do you translate the global brand of U.S. Fortune 500 enterprises and corporate culture from North America to a local setting; and make sure that it conforms with the culture of the local communities that you're working in?

Danielle Monaghan is HR Director for North Asia, including Greater China, Japan, and Korea, for Cisco Systems, and Roel Lambrichts director, talent acquisition for Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. Danielle and Roel participated in a panel discussion moderated by Jeremy Eskenazi, Managing Principal of Riviera Advisors, at ERE Expo 2012 Spring in San Diego titled "A Frank Discussion About Global Recruiting."

Kara Yarnot

Even though there has been a 128% increase in job applications at SAIC since 2012, it's not easy for Kara to find qualified candidates for the 3000 job openings at her company.

Joining me today for a special Talent Acquisition Channel podcast is Kara Yarnot, Vice President, Corporate HR, Director-Talent Acquisition Center of Expertise at SAIC. Kara spoke to a group of job board operators at the IAEWS (International Association of Employment Websites) conference proceding ERE Spring.

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy & environment, health, and cybersecurity. The company's approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets.

One of the unique talent acquisition challenges Kara and her team face: often times they're involved in a tremendous amount of preliminary pipeline planning and development for roles that are based on being awarded government contracts. Other defense contractors bidding on the same contract are going after the same people, doing the same thing!

Joel Spolsky

"Move Fast and Break Things"

Dear Talent Acquisition Professional,
Does your office resemble Dunder Mifflin? If so, why? Do you think anyone WANTS to come to work in a cubicle farm with cheap crappy furniture, stained carpets, lousy-stupid computers running ancient software on horrible monitors?

Do you think it matters?

Joel Spolsky does. A lot. He is the author of the definitive book on hiring tech talent; Smart & Get Things Done. "The top software developers are ten times as productive as average developers. Ten times!" These are the folks attracted to Fog Creek and Stack Exchange. And guess what? It's not about money.

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Myrta Barell

"I work for a very conservative company in a very conservative industry in a very conservative country that is highly regulated."

Myrta Barell is responsible for the strategy, planning and day to day managing of Swiss Re's Global Alumni Network. As the largest Re-Insurer in the world, they were one of the first to establish such a network. It also put them in the front as one of the first Swiss companies to create such a Network for ex-employees.

Although the alumni network is her main focus, Myrta is also responsible for the companies HR Communications. Being involved in most of the projects happening within HR keeps her very busy.

Peter Clayton had an opportunity to talk with Myrta at the SelectMinds Client Conference in New York. Myrta is on SelectMinds' Advisory Board, and has the lead responsiblity in managing Swiss Re's Global Alumni Network.

Morgan Hoogvelt

Clear Channel has outsourced much of their recruiting to an RPO. In this talent acquisition podcast, their Chief Talent Scout tells us why.

Morgan Hoogvelt currently serves as chief talent scout for Clear Channel Communications. Drawing on his expertise in human capital strategy, essential hiring practices, candidate sourcing, Internet recruiting and social networking, he provides the organization targeted, best-of-class solutions and employment branding strategies that help Clear Channel meet the challenges of HR, recruiting, technology and retaining and rewarding top talent.

There are many HR leaders of the opinion that talent acquisition is too important to outsource to a third party. Here's a different perspective.