Social Media In Recruitment

CONFERENCE ORGANISER & HOST

Mike Taylor – Managing Director –
Web Based Recruitment

Web Based Recruitment was started by Mike Taylor in 2001. Mike had spent the previous 12 years working in HR and Recruitment for major blue chip companies including IBM, Motorola and Nokia.
 
 In his last role at Nokia Mike was the UK Recruitment Specialist with responsibility for Nokia’s UK careers web-site and online advertising strategy.
 
 Mike has been involved in online recruitment for 9 years and established Web Based Recruitment as an independent online recruitment consultancy to help companies with all aspects of their online recruitment activities.
 
Mike also has experience of running successful SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and Online Marketing campaigns in a number of different industry sectors and organised the UK's first Social Media In Recruitment Conference in July 2009.

 In January 2009 Mike published his first book – How To Find A Job Using The Internet – www.OnlineJobHunting.co.uk

Mike Pilcher -  Director of Corporate Solutions, LinkedIn Europe

Mike Pilcher has more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise sales industry working with companies ranging from Oracle, First Data and Sybase to successful start-ups.

Mike has also published a book describing the changes Web 2.0 technology is having on sales and marketing.

Andy Headworth – Founder -  Sirona Consulting

Andy Headworth is the owner of Sirona Consulting Limited, a specialist consultancy that has extensive experience within the recruitment industry.
 
He helps and advises companies about recruitment strategy, recruitment process, online recruitment, candidate attraction and how to use social media as a successful tool within recruitment.

Lisa Scales – Director – Talent On View

Lisa Scales has over 15 years experience working within the recruitment industry. She has held senior management roles with Kelly Services Inc and Select Appointments plc (now Ranstad). Lisa has also had in house experience working for a city law firm in a recruiting and HR function and in 2008 started Talent on View – a video software technology for the recruitment sector.

The business has grown exponentially since then and in early 2009 they launched their new product Tribepad. Tribepad is a white label community platform enabling companies to leverage their own employees and customers online.

Lucian Tarnowski – Founder – BraveNewTalent.com

Lucian (24) is the energetic face behind the Brave New® brand and founder of BraveNewTalent.com. An award winning young entrepreneur, with a huge drive and passion for success, he has recently been awarded 5th place Natwest and RBS’s search for the UK’s ‘Top 15 up and coming Entrepreneurs’.
 
 Lucian has a ‘born global’ attitude with a strategy to match. He is the world’s youngest entrepreneur to join the UKTI (UK Trade and Investment’s) hugely successful Global Entrepreneur Program with Brave New Talent being described by the UK Government as a “Technology company of Exceptional Potential”. BraveNewTalent.com is the worlds first pre-employment networking site, connecting talent to employers online.

Peter Gold – Founder -  Hire Strategies Ltd

Peter Gold is the Founder of Hire Strategies Limited, an online recruitment business that helps employers implement their e-recruitment strategy and use the Internet to ‘find and hire’ great people more effectively than their competitors. Peter was previously the CEO of AIM listed Jobs.co.uk plc, a recruitment focused, technology provider. He has 15 years recruitment experience having worked for recruitment agencies such as Manpower plc, Kelly Services and Securicor Recruitment Services before setting up e-cruitnow.com in September 1999 (subsequently acquired by Jobs.co.uk plc in April 2002).
 
 With 20 years recruitment experience (the last 10 involved in e-recruitment), Peter has an in depth knowledge of recruitment, IT processes, recruitment technology and social media which allows him to distil this into simple, workable solutions based on real life recruitment experience. Peter has previously worked with companies such as The Body Shop, Debenhams, COLT Telecom, Mothercare, Boots and Tesco and many more.

Adrian Marlowe – Director -  Lawspeed

Adrian launched Lawspeed 11 years ago having identified the need in the recruitment industry for industry leading specialist documentation and strategic advice combining legal, tax and recruitment expertise.
 
 Lawspeed is unique in its market being the only consultancy of its type with experience of understanding the legal and commercial issues relevant to the entire recruitment chain from end user to worker including internet usage.
 With his focus very much on recruitment law and employment status Adrian is arguably one the UK’s leading experts in this area and has often been instructed by industry stakeholders to respond to key government consultations affecting the recruitment industry.

Luke is industry head classifieds markets at Google UK. In this capacity he works with some of Google's largest clients, helping them develop their online marketing strategies. He has specific responsibility for managing clients in recruitment, social networking/dating, restaurants and has recently been working with a selection of Google's education clients.

Luke has worked in the online industry since arriving from South Africa in 1998, gaining experience across a wide variety of areas. He first worked for TMP Worldwide, initially in their candidate management unit, and eventually consulting with larger clients assessing their readiness to adopt enterprise e-recruitment systems. He joined e-recruitment innovators i-Grasp in 2003 as commercial director, and more recently worked for Stepstone after i-Grasp was acquired in 2005.

Elkie Holland – Director –
Prospectus IT Recruitment

Elkie is a leading expert in the IT recruitment industry and has been running her own recruitment consultancy for over 25 years. Her main area of expertise is in the IT market where she has built a reputation for providing a quality recruitment service to her clients and candidates.
 
 She is constantly aware of the way that the industry is evolving and has adapted her recruitment technique to successfully mix traditional recruitment methods with new technology. Elkie has embraced Web 2.0 and Social Media and has incorporated LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook into her Social Media strategy to recruit for her clients and service her candidates.
 

Jonathan Hart Smith – Director –
CK Clinical

Jonathan Hart-Smith has ten years experience in recruitment and for the last six years has been running his own company, CK Clinical.

CK Clinical now has two offices and recruits throughout the UK and Switzerland. They recruit for Clinical Research jobs, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs roles.

Social Media Panel Discussion 
 
Panel Chairman -  Alan Whitford - Founder -
RCEuro.com

Louise Triance –  Managing Director –
UK Recruiter

Matt Alder - Founder –
MetaShift

Bill Boorman  – Managing Director –
Bill Boorman Ltd