"The recruiting industry is between sixty and ninety billion dollars in revenue. So is it going away? I don't think so. It's actually growing." Craig Silverman
Craig Silverman
You Gotta Show Up. I'm very happy to say I showed up at the Talent UnConference. As Jeff Hunter said, The UnConference was about "Meaningful Connections." One of the many meaningful connections I made in Redwood Shores was Craig Silverman, EVP of HireAbility, whom I met at an ERE conference last year. HireAbility is building a unique value proposition: an eBay, Amazon.com, and MLS for the recruiting industry. Linking thousands of professional recruiters and candidates on a shared platform with wicked-smart software called ALEX.â„¢
About Craig Silverman
Source: Company web site
Craig's professional sales and sales management career spans 19 years. During this time he has amassed substantial experience in building sales teams, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, public relations, recruiting, hiring, training, and motivating. Craig is considered to be an expert on the job market, staffing industry and recruiting trends. He has been quoted by the press in publications such as: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Business Journal, Fortune.com, Knowledge Management Magazine and Staffing Industry Report. Craig has been invited to speak regularly to groups such as the Pinnacle Society, American Staffing Association, Churchill Club, TiE, NACCB, and the Software Publisher's Association. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2000 completed the Harvard Business School, OPM - Key Executive Program.
Craig is the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing for HireAbility where he is responsible for building a new model for the staffing industry by banding together a global network of independent recruiters, corporate recruiters and staffing firms to form a Recruiting Exchange Network that works together to staff positions in all major staffing markets including IT, Healthcare, Sales & Marketing, Legal, Accounting & Finance, Human Resources, and Executive Search.
Prior to HireAbility Craig was the Senior Vice President for TMP Worldwide/Hudson Global Resources (HHGP) and with Hall Kinion (HAKI on NASDAQ) as Executive Vice President of Recruiting Services. From 1989-1996, Craig spent six years as Vice President of Sales and Strategic Consulting with Strategic Mapping, Inc., a leading developer of GIS software and data for business applications. During his time with Strategic Mapping, he grew annual software sales revenue from $1M to $25M.
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