Moderated by Joseph Daniel McCool. Panelists: Marc Cenedella, President and CEO, TheLadders.com; Jason Goldberg, CEO, Chief Jobster & Founder, Jobster; Joyce Maroney, VP of Recruitment Services, BrassRing; Tony Lee, Publisher, Dow Jones/CareerJournal.com; Miodrag Perin, Senior Manager, Bertelsmann Recruiting Services.
Kennedy Information is kindly allowing us to present excerpts from this informative discussion, filled with compelling ideas and viewpoints. Although clearly targeted to an HR/recruiting audience, much can be learned regarding the challenges, technologies, and opportunities HR professionals and recruiters will be dealing with in talent acquisition, on-boarding, and retention.
A former senior executive at HotJobs.com, Cenedella set out to create a solution for successful executives looking for real opportunites. His first step in tackling the problem of too much clutter in the $100k + job market was to build a streamlined e-newsletter and Web site called SalesLadder.com. The first in TheLadders.com family of sites, SalesLadder.com quickly attracted a following among sales executives who found its targeted focus and weekly e-newsletter format to be incredibly useful. SalesLadder.com was soon followed by FinanceLadder.com and MktgLadder.com, which specialize in the finance and marketing sectors, respectively. The latest introduction is UpLadder, specializing in Operations, HR, Technology and Law job.
Prior to founding TheLadders.com, Cenedella was Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations at HotJobs.com. Cenedella shepherded the company's $436 million sale to Yahoo! in 2002. Prior to HotJobs, Cenedella was an AVP at New York-based private equity firm The Riverside Company. Before that, Cenedella founded, grew and sold an international trading company focused on the export of US-made pet food to Japan. A graduate of Harvard Business School, High Distinction, where he was named a Baker Scholar, Cenedella earned his B.A., Political Science at Yale.
Prior to founding Jobster, Jason led Strategic Planning & Alliances for T-Mobile USA. Jason's successes at T-Mobile include sourcing and negotiating several multi-million dollar product, marketing, and services relationships, overseeing new business planning, and leading the development and launch of a series of next generation products. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Jason held management positions at AOL Time Warner. Jason worked from 1993 to 1998 at the White House in Washington D.C., the final two years as senior aide to the White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. Jason received his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and holds a B.A. from Emory University with honors and Phi Beta Kappa distinction.
Tony is Publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online Network, which includes not only CareerJournal.com, but also StartupJournal.com, RealEstateJournal.com, CollegeJournal.com, CareerJournalEurope.com and CareerJournalAsia.com. All are free vertical sites from The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, the largest paid subscription news site on the Web. He is general manager of OpinionJournal.com-from The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page-and "Political Diary," a paid e-mail newsletter about politics.
Tony is co-author of "The Jobs Rated Almanac" (2002, Barricade) and "Career Choice, Change and Challenge" (2000, JIST Pub.). He sits on the board of CareerCast, a software firm that develops scaleable, Web-based job-board solutions for the Internet's leading media companies, and is a board member of the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation. Mr. Lee is formerly editor in chief of the National Business Employment Weekly and Managing Your Career, both published by Dow Jones & Company.
Joyce Maroney is Vice President of Recruitment Services at BrassRing, and is responsible for BrassRing's outsourced recruitment and resume processing offerings. Since joining BrassRing in 1999, Ms. Maroney has led the company’s Client Service, Training, Customer Support, Technical Services, Product Management and Professional Services organizations. Ms. Maroney joined BrassRing from Lotus Development where she held a variety of management positions - including Sr. Manager of Worldwide Sales Training, Director of Worldwide Field Operations, and Senior Director of Services Marketing. She has over 20 years experience in the high tech marketplace, working for small and large companies including Wang Laboratories, Control Data, Software AG, and Para Research. Ms. Maroney's functional experience includes sales, training, marketing, client services, product management and systems engineering. Ms. Maroney serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Employment Professionals. She has Bachelor's degree in Biology from Middlebury College and an MBA in Finance from Boston University.
Miodrag Perin
Miodrag Perin
Mio's philosophy is based on teamwork, knowledge, best-practice, and efficiency. Miodrag's direct style and project management approach help focus on the customer, product, and project goals at all times. Miodrag has over 9 years of work history at Bertelsmann, Inc. In 2001, his group began building and branding corporate and divisional recruiting web sites. To deal with the challenges of a decentralized organization, the group decided to pursue a co-branded approach by including images, logos, and content from all of its companies & divisions. This synergistic approach has resulted in the popularity of the site and continues to attract top talent worldwide. Miodrag has also been instrumental in introducing several levels of process automation; including the build of Bertelsmann's state-of-the art applicant tracking system known as the BeCruiter.
His group recently re-launched Bertelsmann's International Jobs & Careers web site known as MyFuture (myfuture.bertelsmann.com). His current responsibilities are to manage the current North American product and service portfolio, grow the external customer base, continue to invest in R&D, blueprint future offerings, and grow strategic partnerships with other quality players in the recruiting and technology marketplace. The BRS team continues to look for innovative ways to reduce costs, improve processes, and save the client valuable time. Miodrag has a BBA in International Marketing and Business Law from Pace University's Lubin School of Business.
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Moderated by Joseph Daniel McCool. Panelists: Marc Cenedella, President and CEO, TheLadders.com; Jason Goldberg, CEO, Chief Jobster & Founder, Jobster; Joyce Maroney, VP of Recruitment Services, BrassRing; Tony Lee, Publisher, Dow Jones/CareerJournal.com; Miodrag Perin, Senior Manager, Bertelsmann Recruiting Services.
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