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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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radiohead = disruption

Monday, October 22, 2007

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The band Radiohead disrupted the music supply chain recently by removing all the traditional friction points in the music industry: labels, agents, distribution channels etc. The band went directly to ‘buyers’ using the internet allowing them to determine value and pay or not for downloading the music online. The disruptive move was met with much [...]

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i repent

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

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I am a recruiter … have been for lots of years and I must admit I have never paid much attention to Labor and Employment Law. Source the top talent, assess and deliver … fast. Nothing gets in the way. Laws are just nuisance road bumps that get in the way of getting the job [...]

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True Talent Confidentiality

Thursday, August 30, 2007

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A recent discussion… A young recruiter with three years of corporate recruiting under the belt replied with a list of typical boards and employee referals when asked how she sourced talent. When asked about the quality of the talent, the reply was fair but hard to find. And when questioned on the number of offer rejects, [...]

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