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hanks - who has written 10 posts on Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion.

Hank Stringer has over two decades of experience as a successful high-tech industry recruiter, entrepreneur, and innovator in the use of information technology in the recruitment and employment process. Forecasting a talent shortage in 1994, Stringer applied his energy and experiences to start Hire.com. There, he and a team of entrepreneurs created the first ASP business model, utilizing the Internet to scale and automate interactive recruiting relationships and processes. Under his tenure, Hire.com’s revolutionary approach dramatically changed the way companies such as Federal Express, BP, Allianz, Raytheon and Prudential recruit, hire, and retain talent. Prior to founding Hire.com, Stringer was president and co-founder of Pedley-Stringer, Inc., a high-tech recruitment firm. Stringer previously served as an internal recruiting consultant for Tandem Computers and Dell Computer, where he was responsible for a number of special recruiting projects in the U.S. and Asia. Hank is the co-founder of itzbig, an interactive sourcing network located in Austin, Texas and the co-author of Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Recently I made a career decision. For a ‘boomer’ a fairly major decision. I have been in the search/recruitment technology business for 30 years. Since 1995 I have been on the technology side working to make sense and add value from the Internet and emerging technologies. And made some headway. On the other hand many [...]

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generation what?

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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I am preparing to appear on a panel in a month on the different generations in the workforce. How they work, what they want, who they are, how they will or won’t work with each other, etc? I don’t want to give away my age as I consider myself young at heart and understanding of [...]

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open social, privacy and recruitment

Monday, January 21, 2008

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Post from Plaxo blog I was shocked to see that Plaxo has disregarded its own privacy statement with the launch of its new Pulse service. There is no way for users to opt-out of the Pulse service, so their web info is broadcast without their permission to everyone on their contact list. Facebook tried this with News [...]

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development by deficiency

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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Do we need to develop talent in the US? Do we have enough technical workers, service workers, etc? Many think not while others believe the global market will supply needed talent just fine. It’s not a bad idea to plan for the worst – not enough talent and start finding ways to develop the talent [...]

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sumser’s move

Friday, December 14, 2007

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I set out in 1997 to meet the leaders of the online recruiting industry. Calls were accepted and meetings set with K. Wheeler, J. Sullivan and J. Sumser. All listened (a little), shared opinions (a lot) and remain friends to this day. Establishing relationships like these is clearly one of the joys of the recruiting [...]

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referral follow-up

Thursday, November 15, 2007

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My good friend Rusty Rueff (we wrote a book together Talent Force and are still friends) had a few comments about referrals based on his recruiting leadership experiences at Pepsico and Electronic Arts. I thought his view interesting and worth sharing. Take a look – true? Here is his hypothesis, See if it holds for [...]

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the intimacy of referrals

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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I received a call the other day from a good friend who had questions about referrals. She brought up all of the points you’d imagine… and was especially focused on “payout.” Yes, my friend believed (as most businesses do) that anyone will refer a friend for a job if they can be rewarded with [...]

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