Paul Martin
Beyond The Downturn: Surviving the Year, and Planning for the Decade
Paul Martin is Vice President of Global Staffing & Diversity, at Sony Pictures Entertainment
News headlines tell it all. It has been survival of the fittest with only the most resilient companies and talent leaders weathering the storm. Only a select few survivors, however, have used the time in the downturn to plan for the upturn.
In this exclusive podcast from ERE Expo 2010 Spring in San Diego, Paul shares the many challenges he faced this past year and the many lessons learned. Paul shares stories from the trenches and provides real-world strategies and tactics on keeping a talent acquisition team motivated and engaged.
In the General Session panel session at ERE, (moderated by talent acquisition guru Jeremy Eskenazi of Riviera Advisors), Paul discussed the current state of talent acquisition at Sony Pictures Entertainment, and shared survival tactics and key insights with two peers: Ginny Eagle, former Director of Talent Acquisition at T-Mobile USA; and Corporate VP of Talent & Employee Engagement at Harrah's Entertainment, Brad Warga.
About Paul Martin
In his role as VP of Global Staffing & Diversity, Paul is responsible for overall management of the professional staffing function as well as diversity development enterprise wide. Prior to joining Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paul was the Vice President, Worldwide Recruitment for Warner Bros. Entertainment. In this role, he was responsible for strategically aligning the Corporate Recruiting Function with the needs of all the client business units. Prior to Warner Bros. Entertainment, Paul was the Human Resources Manager at LRN, The Legal Knowledge Company, which at the time was a flourishing start up organization specializing in legal research, and web based compliance, governance & ethics training. In this role Paul was directly responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, leadership and daily management of Human Resources and Employment programs and policies.
Paul spent the first four years of his career in the financial services industry as the Executive Recruiter for Merrill Lynch's Private Client Division. Paul also worked for Johnson & Johnson as a Sr. Recruitment Consultant supporting their Engineering and Operations Divisions. Paul earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Politics from Wesleyan University and also received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Southern California Law School.
About Peter Clayton
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