Inside the European and Asia/Pacific Job Markets

Alan Whitford

Secrets of identifying and pursuing career opportunities in Asia and Europe from UK-based recruiting guru Alan Whitford

Emerging Nations Powering Global Economic Boom. A front page headline in the May 12th Los Angeles Times. The article reports the global economic expansion is the strongest since the 1970s, with China, India and Russia setting the pace. Founding Partner of Abtech Alan Whitford has over 20 years experience in the start-up and expansion of high technology businesses in Europe, including companies in the Human Resources, Financial Services, Systems Software and Decision Support arenas. He has provided strategic and practical insights to the automation and web-enablement of Human Resource and Recruitment Process activities throughout Europe. Clients include Times 500 companies and software and services vendors in the Human Resources and e-commerce arenas. Alan and his partner Keith Robinson spoke at the Kennedy 2006 Recruiting Conference and Expo in Las Vegas.

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Alan Whitford Biography
Source: Abtech website

Whitford is a founding member of HR-XML Consortium European Chapter, serves on its 2004/2005 Board of Directors and heads up the marketing workgroup. He has recently completed a two year term as the first European based Advisory Board member of a leading company in the Talent Management Solutions space. He is a founding member of the UK Online Recruitment Marketing Council (ORMC).

A frequent participant and chair of European conference programs, Alan chaired and was one of the originators of the totaljobs.com Internet Recruitment series, which educated more than 9,500 participants in 4 years.

Alan has been published in a number of on-line and off-line media covering technical and strategic HR and Recruitment issues. Whitford has written the first ever UK Guide to Online Recruitment for the leading HR publication, Personnel Today.

Resources:
Abtech Website
Alan's Blog
Kennedy Information

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