South Florida Metro Recruiters

Jason Gorham Chums the Waters

Amitai Givertz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:29:22 +0000

Member Jason Gorham who is the Founder and CEO of Lake Worth-based CareerMetaSearch.com and Sharkstrike.com is getting ready to launch a hybrid service in September:

CareerMetaSearch & Sharkstrike have evolved into the world’s first and largest job keyword engine. Our patented job keyword technology has been in development since 2003, including search engine marketing for various jobs around the world, and now we are bringing our results to you…

Our job keyword engine contains over 30,000 job keywords that are relevant to passive and active job seekers looking for work in technology, entry level, executive, and accounting and finance jobs. Our job posting keyword extraction software captures targeted keywords from your jobs to be displayed to passive candidates throughout the Google network reaching over 80% of internet users. Our database is a collection of CareerMetaSearch.com historical keywords, crawled job keywords, and shared keywords from users of our system.

Sounds nifty, don’t it? Stay posted…

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Seminar September 4, 2008 in Miami

Amitai Givertz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:59:44 +0000

Maureen Sharib, the undisputed authority on telephone names sourcing, will be hosting a full-day training session in Miami. The session is being sponsored by local search firm: Confisa International Group.

What:	MagicMethod Phone Sourcing All Day Seminar
Time:	8:00AM Networking breakfast 9:00AM - 4:30PM
Date:	September 4, 2008
Place:	Ronald W. Shane Center 6500 Indian Creek Dr. Miami Beach, FL. 33141
Cost:	$325.00 (includes 3-month three month subscription “Magic in the Method” telephone names sourcing course)
Registration:	Email bob@techtrak.com for registration form or call him at (513) 899-9628

Ask for the 10% for South Florida Metro Recruiters!

SourceCon 2008, September 2—4 in Atlanta

Amitai Givertz — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:30:49 +0000

I’m pleased to be involved in helping organize this year’s SourceCon Conference. Last year’s inaugural conference was a huge hit. This year promises to be even better.

If you are involved with sourcing or research in any shape or form you should make arrangements to be in Atlanta from September 2-4.

Check out the site for details, updates and registration.

Aerotek expands its South Florida operations

Amitai Givertz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:51:12 +0000

As reported in the South Florida Business Journal:

Technical and professional staffing agency Aerotek has opened in an office in West Palm Beach, the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County said.

The company, which already has offices in Fort Lauderdale, Miramar and Miami, has been looking for a West Palm Beach office since early this year. Aerotek said the additional office will create 10 internal positions and hundreds of contract and contract-to-hire positions over the next year. As of February, it had 76 internal employees and 675 contract employees in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Read the rest here…

BROWN BAG RECRUITER: August 19 in Orlando

Amitai Givertz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:40:47 +0000

In mid-August our friends in Orlando are in for a BROWN BAG RECRUITER treat, a full-day interactive recruiter training session…

What:	BROWN BAG RECRUITER, Orlando \| No Cost/Low Cost Sourcing Workshop and Clinic
Time:	8:30AM
Date:	August 19, 2008
Place:	Jobing.com Community Room 2290 Lucien Way Suite 350 Maitland, FL 32751
Cost:	Alumni $185.00 Others $205.00
Registration:	Online

Web 2.0 Trends and Stats: Separating the Hype from Reality

Amitai Givertz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:22:48 +0000

In the spirit of marketing optimization, The Florida Direct Marketing Association and American Marketing Association-South have partnered with South Florida Interactive Marketing Association to bring us a sit down dinner, networking and presentation by eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey.

This could be worth checking out…

What:	Web 2.0 Trends and Stats: Separating the Hype from Reality
Time:	6:30PM
Date:	August 14, 2008
Place:	Riverside Hotel 620 East Las Olas Blvd Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Cost:	Members free Others $45.00 At-the-door $55.00
Contact/RSVP:	membership@sfima.com

Give me your B-players and I’ll give you mine

Amitai Givertz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:29:13 +0000

Allison Ross reports in the Palm Beach Post that FPL and a few other area employers have decided to cast their lot with recruiting solution de jour AllianceQ. Oh, my.

Buying into the old “more cost-efficient way to recruit people for jobs” codswallop it seems the employers you’d expect to be the most savvy can still leave one scratching their head wondering, “What the hell are they thinking?” Of course, I could be missing something but the AllianceQ sales-gotcha that drawing from a pool of other employers’ rejects somehow delivers better quality candidates is hard to understand.

AllianceQ rationalize it like this:

Say Company A spends $2 million a year to advertise, and that brings in 500,000 job applicants. They can only hire about 2 percent of those people…Then they take the rest and put them in a pool. Now the companies can leverage each others advertising spends.”

I would have thought that if a company can only hire 2% of the people it attracts something is fundamentally wrong. It could be profiling, employer branding, sourcing strategy, screening, assessment and/or selection but whatever it is, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to compound the problem be adding more B-player fuel to the fire.

The Human Capitalist has an interesting follow-up post with some alternative points of view. As for me, I think someone in procurement needs a follow-up of their own, don’t you?

Coffee Connections on June 19, 2008 in South Miami

Amitai Givertz — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:04:06 +0000

Germaine Suarez-Bolaños will be hosting a second informal get together for recruiters who want to network close up. Everyone one is invited although there is a special shoutout for healthcare recruiters. If you are not recruiting in healthcare bring someone with you who is.

When: 7:00PM - 9:00PM

Where: Panera Bread
North Kendall Drive
13672 N Kendall Drive
Miami, FL 33186
(305) 408-4801
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Why: The goal is to to add value to our personal networks locally and connect in some meaningful way with at least one new person in the group.

Please RSVP or or call Germaine at (305) 726-4666 so we can make you especially welcome.

Coffee Connections in Coral Springs becomes a monthly fixture!

Amitai Givertz — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:07:03 +0000

Following the last get together organized by Claudia Faust everyone that was there decided this informal networking was too good to pass up.

Claudia has put her Coffee Connections in Coral Springs on the calendar for the second Thursday every month and we’ll continue with it as for as long as everyone wants to. So, mark your calendars:

When: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Where: Borders Books and Music
700 N University Drive
Coral Springs, FL 33071
(954) 340-3307
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Why: The goal is leave each meeting having taught at least one thing, learned at least one thing and given one thing back to nurturing the network.

Please RSVP so we can make you especially welcome. See you there!

WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2008 on Thursday, May 29 in West Palm Beach

Amitai Givertz — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:37:09 +0000

My friend Shayrn Hancock is a Business Services Consultant with the Workforce Alliance in West Palm Beach. This morning she sent me over details of the WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2008 which will be held on Thursday, May 29, at the Kravis Center Cohen Pavilion, from 7:45AM – 11:30AM.

I will be racing up the road after the BROWN BAG RECRUITER training in Fort Lauderdale to catch as much of the program as possible. If you are in Palm Beach County I strongly encourage you to do the same. The program looks fantastic.

Get the details here and register online. Alternatively, contact Sharyn directly and she will look after you personally: shancock@pbcalliance.com or call (561) 340-1060 ext 329.