"A Confluence of Influencers" The Future of Recruiting, HR, and Online Career Tools

Gerry Crispin

Welcome to a Inside Recruiting edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting from the SHRM 2009 Conference in New Orleans. Joining me is our good friend, and frequent contributor to Total Picture Radio, Gerry Crispin, principal of CareerXroads. Gerry and his partner, Mark Mehler are human resource professionals who have spent over two decades working in just about every facet of the employment industry.

Gerry's presentation at SHRM focused on the increasing importance of a company's Web site in attracting top talent. We discuss recruiting industry trends, best practices, one of Gerry's "favorite cities" — New Orleans, the standards initiative SHRM is supporting under ANSI/ISO protocols, and technology trends facing the staffing industry.

(You can read more about SHRM National Standards Development Task Force, and Gerry's observations from the SHRM Conference on Gerry's Blog)

This podcast is sponsored by Taleo, where Talent Drives Performance.™

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Gerry Crispin's biography:
I write, research and share my adventures, opinions and data about evolving staffing models with the HR profession (and at small-group meetings of corporate staffing strategists that participate in CareerXroads' colloquia). I am passionate about how firms design and build staffing processes, the technology to enhance them and the systems to manage them. Together with my business partner, Mark Mehler, I strive to observe and influence new and evolving models that aspire to world-class, measurable standards and satisfy every stakeholder. I want to know more about the "playing fields" where candidates and employers meet and I'm more than a little curious about how they treat one another: how Job Seekers "game" their next career move while Employers tout their latest opportunities. I'm constantly on the lookout for stories about staffing challenges, benchmarks, and results as well as the people who live the stories they tell.

Resources

CareerXroads
Gerry's Blog