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Frank Risalvato earned his degree by paying his own way through college while working full time, graduating Cum Laude in 1984 from the New Jersey City University. He went on to a management career in the corporate world with California and New York based companies upon graduation. Having met exceptional recruiters that inspired him along the way while contributing to his early career success, he joined the staffing industry in 1987 … one month after the stock market crash of that year.
He founded IRES, Inc. in January of 1991 with the purpose of focusing on the refinement, advancement and perfection of the search process. Today IRES provides executive retained search, contingency staffing services and merger & acquisition consulting services to the property and casualty insurance, investment banking, and other industries across the United States.
Franks says the companies IRES has serviced now earn well over a combined one billion in additional annual revenue as a direct result of the professional contributions of hired talent IRES delivered and the resulting profit generated by such.
PsyMax is a provider of online assessments and reports used by organizations to hire the right people and maximize employee performance. Download a free white paper here.
“What do assessments mean to your recruitment projects?” That is the question that Thad Meese, COO of online assessment innovator PsyMax Solutions would like you to ask yourself as a recruiter. Thad understands the importance of work style behaviors and the benefits that come with good job-fit including lower turnover and higher performance at a minimum. This experience comes from his time as a consultant for several of the world’s largest professional services firms including Deloitte & Touche and as an employer and job seeker himself.
Thad is currently leading PsyMax’s campaign to change the “business as usual” approach that some organizations take when considering the value assessments can deliver. He is doing this by addressing some of the more common misconceptions about assessments including their expense, length of implementation, overall relevance, and other areas that can sometimes be misunderstood.
Thad shares his global view on how assessment technology is quickly becoming something that is more relevant and easier than ever to implement and use effectively. The benefit of assessments can be found in the tremendous time and cost savings for organizations. What’s more, individual recruiters and consultants can use assessments in their recruiting process or even redistribute them as a package to their customers. In either case the online assessments and reports create more value for their business and their clients’ businesses.
PsyMax Solutions delivers assessments to recruiters which help them measure any candidates’ or employees’ degree of job-fit given how their individual work styles match those work styles required for success in the position.
Published on July 17, 2008
in Video.
Jordan Rayboy is re-defining the recruiting industry by building his virtual search business with his wife Jeska while traveling the country in their Fleetwood RV. They have been on the road since September ‘06, and thus far have been to 36 states, 3 Canadian provinces, got married on the beach in Santa Barbara, and are living their dream. This interview was conducted from his RV and aside from a few technical hiccups the message is golden.
Jordan spent six years with MRI, where he was a Top-3 national producer in the Sales Consultants division in 2003 and 2004, and Top-10 worldwide producer in 2005 and 2006. He was both Regional Rookie of the Year and Regional Account Executive of the Year for the South Atlantic Region in 2001 (billing $650K his rookie year), and was Regional Account Executive of the year again in 2003 and 2004. At an age of 27 Rayboy’s career cash-in totals more than $3.8 million, and he has averaged $840k annual billings over the last four years.
Jordan says “Rayboy Insider Search (RayboyIS.com) has a simple mission- helping our clients and candidates achieve their goals by building long-term relationships based on trust, professionalism, and results. We’ve placed over 350 top sales, technical, consulting, and management executives with both large industry leaders and VC-funded startups. We specialize in the storage market and are industry insiders. By being on the front lines talking to hundreds of storage professionals every day, we have unique insight on what’s going on in the market before news hits the street. We know who the top players are, both employers and candidates, and are the firm that they call FIRST when they need a search partner they can depend on. With our singular focus on storage, there is no firm that is better connected in this market. Whether you need to quickly scale out your team or are looking to make your next career move, no one can help you achieve your goals faster and more effectively than RayboyIS.”
Yellojobs.com is a newly launched job referral network and has combined the power of social networking and referral recruiting to create a marketplace for career opportunities. Alex Conway is the COO and VP Biz Dev for Yellojobs.com He started his career with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Treasury/Risk departments.
Alex says everyone knows that social networking is all the rage and that we should be using this “tool” to find better talent for our organizations. But, which social network is right for referral recruiting at your company?
Alex feels most companies feel they should use the big dogs, the Facebooks and Myspaces, because all the cool kids are doing it. But then they realized that these may be too big and too general and too social. There are some great ways to use the big social networks for recruiting, but Yellojobs thinks a more targeted approach makes sense.
They recommend finding out what social networks your current employees are using and target them. This strategy is ‘targeted social network recruiting’, and similar to how most companies probably target certain universities when seeking certain candidates. They suggest using a poll or survey service and list a bunch of social networks to see which ones your current employees are using. How Yellojobs.com Works:
1. Employers post job ads with referral rewards for Free
2. Users refer jobs to their friends
3. When a friend is hired, the referring party is paid the promised reward
Yellojobs.com feels that unlike the general job boards, employers pay for successful hires only.
And, users can find their friend’s jobs, while making a little pocket cash in the process. It’s a win win.
Cheezhead founder Joel Cheesman is one of the most widely-read bloggers on emerging recruitment issues in the world. He was the recipient of Recruiting.com’s Best Technology Recruitment Blog for 2005 and received Best Recruiting Blog in 2007. He has been featured in Fast Company magazine and its blog under FC Reads, as well as NewsNow, Workforce Management, AIRS, Crain’s Business, BusinessWeek Magazine, Resumes for Dummies, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal (print addition).
Joel’s blog is a daily chronicle of how the Internet and technology are shaping human resources and how organizations can attract the talent needed to thrive in tomorrow’s economy. As an employee and insider of some of America’s biggest online job sites since 1997, Joel founded HRSEO to help employers and companies in the recruitment space move to a world where search engines deliver high quality and cost-effective traffic.
Joel is an evangelist of search engine optimization (SEO), Internet marketing and other emerging technologies that help employers and like businesses drive targeted candidates to vacancies.
Kevin originally joined TalentQuest in 1999. As senior vice president of sales and marketing, he is responsible for developing and implementing business development strategies and building broad-base awareness of TalentQuest’s comprehensive integrated services offering.
Kevin has been instrumental in the growth of many companies through strategic planning, effective teambuilding, market and competitive analysis, designing and implementing sales and marketing programs, establishing partnerships and other related brand-development efforts. Prior to joining TalentQuest, he served as vice president of business development and sales for WebRoomz, a provider of web-based housing management solutions, where he was responsible for the company’s sales, marketing, and business development functions.
An avid tennis player, Kevin was a four-year letterman and captain of The University of Georgia tennis team. He stays connected to the tennis community through his involvement in such groups as the Georgia Tennis Foundation Board of Trustees, President of Friends of Tennis Board, and the Georgia Tennis Champions Club Board of Trustees. He is also an active member of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Kevin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from The University of Georgia. He lives in Atlanta and has a young daughter.
Prior to founding Avature, Dimitri co-founded HotJobs.com in 1997. As Chief Operating Officer and later CEO, Dimitri’s responsibilities at HotJobs included the direct management of all of its products and services. HotJobs was sold to Yahoo! in 2002. Prior to HotJobs, Dimitri was Managing Director of an executive search firm operating in both New York and San Francisco that specialized in technical positions for leading software companies and financial institutions.
Dimitri is a noted authority on the labor market and has appeared on CNNfn, CNN, Fox News, The Cavuto Report, Power Lunch, and other programs, and has been featured in Business Week, The New York Daily News, Investors Business Daily, and other print publications. He serves on the Board of Directors of Zhaopin.com, an internet employment site located in Beijing, China.
Dimitri is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he obtained a BA in biophysics.
Chuck Taylor is the vice president of marketing for Affinity Circles. He has a background as a director of product marketing for Yahoo! HotJobs, a leading job board and is currently leading Affinity Circles’ expansion expansion into new vertical markets, targeting trade, fraternal and ethnic-based
professional associations. With experience in creating value for both organizations and end users, he will guide the development and marketing of value-added community services. He responsible for all marketing functions, including corporate communications, brand marketing, field marketing, product marketing and strategic partnership marketing efforts.
Taylor over 15 years of industry experience to his new role, which includes developing new business models, identifying new market opportunities and driving consumer-centric product development practices. While at Yahoo! HotJobs, he led a team focused on launch of products for job seekers, recruiters and business partners. Before Yahoo! Hot Jobs, he worked as a product manager for Progressive Insurance, as a management consultant for Bain & Co., and as an operations manager for Procter & Gamble.
Chuck says “Social networking and Web 2.0 technologies enable consumers to form valuable personal and professional connections. Trusted social networks take this one step further by creating a secure environment were individual members of affinity based groups can form trusted connections with fellow members and the organizations that serve them. By offering value-added services such as recruitment advertising, Affinity Circles can empower individual users to help each other, while creating a unique and valuable referral-marketing tool for employers who desire to tap into these highly targeted and interactive communities.”
Chuck earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, and his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Lou Adler is the president of The Adler Group. His Amazon best-seller Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 1997, 2002) started the performance-based hiring and selection movement. This was followed-up with the award-winning Nightingale Conant audio tape program, POWER Hiring: How to Find, Assess, Hire and Keep Great Talent (1998). Adler is a noted recruiting industry expert, national speaker, and columnist for a number of major recruiting Internet sites including HR.com, ERExchange.com, Kennedy Information, Workforce magazine, and AIRS. Adler is a veteran recruiter and founder of CJA Executive Search. Adler’s early industry career included general management positions with the Allen Group, as well as senior-level financial management positions with Rockwell International’s Automotive and Consumer Electronics groups. Adler holds an MBA from UCLA and a B.S. in Engineering from Clarkson University, New York.
Louis Vong is a 13-year veteran of the advertising and marketing industry. He first cut his teeth in the ad agency world at DDB Seattle back in the ’90s before joining a small creative boutique agency called Austin Knight. Austin Knight was one of the few early adopters of interactive development for talent attraction in the mid-90s. At TMP Worldwide, Mr. Vong is responsible for keeping the agency at the forefront of interactive innovation and emergent technologies, working closely with clients to deliver innovative marketing strategies. Mr. Vong is also a member and co-chair of TMP Labs, TMP Worldwide’s internal think tank, tasked with development of next-generation recruiting strategies and tools. - Introduction courtesy John Sumser at RecruitingRoadShow.com
