Top 100 Influencers in HR, Recruiting & Talent Acquisition

Mike Foster v1.33 The Builder

Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
Mike Foster founded AIRS and the Human Capital Institute. Foster, a serial entrepreneur, saw windows of opportunity and exploited them. The two institutions changed the face of the Recruiting and HR segments.
AIRS is the precursor to today’s sourcing gold rush. Rooted in the focused use of search engines and internet tools for candidate [...]

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Top 100 v 1.32 Neil McCormick

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
There are two competing ideas in the world of standards. On the one hand, you have the ANSI notion that shared language creates a steady platform for improvement. On the other is the more sophisticated notion that standards are a set of questions that should always be asked.
The first approach answers the question, [...]

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Auren Hoffman v1.31

Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
There’s an explosion of tools that try to harness social media for recruiting purposes. One of the most interesting is something called Rapleaf. It’s the product of a guy named Auren Hoffman who is a serial entrepreneur in the Recruiting and Staffing Industry. He’s founded a fistful of companies and successfully sold them [...]

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Top Influencers v1.30: Darren Romano

Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
Like Valerie Hudson (v 1.25), Darren Romano is one of three or four central figures in the careers of high placed HR executives. Where Valerie is the center of HR executive placement in Silicon Valley, Darren plies his trade in the heart of the east coast establishment. Currently, he’s the Heidrik and Struggles [...]

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Top HR Influencers v1.29 Gerry Crispin

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
It’s hard to think of someone in the industry who is better connected than Gerry Crispin. The big company HR guy went from corporate to Ad Agency to author to general networker. Crispin’s influence is felt in the agenda at SHRM, the vast number of young professionals he mentors and the executives who [...]

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Top Influencers v1.28 Penelope Trunk, The Brazen Careerist

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

by John Sumser
Ask yourself “what’s the opposite of HR?”. One answer is Penelope Trunk. Where HR is all about being button-down and resolving conflict, Trunk is an agitator. The Brazen Careerist is busily shattering preconceived notions about propriety, privacy and transparency.
She’s this generation’s Helen Gurley Brown. The Brazen Careerist is an update of Sex and [...]

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Top Influencers v1.27 Brian (Skip) Schipper

Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

Top Influencers v1.27 Brian (Skip) Schipper
Brian Schipper is the CHRO at Cisco. If the problem simply involved competent administration for 65,000 employees, it would be an enormous challenge. At large enterprise scale, HR simply operates differently.
But this is Cisco.
Under the guiding hand of visionary CEO John Chambers, the company is out to revolutionize work and [...]

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Top 100 Influencers Todd Raphael v1.26

Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
Todd Raphael v1.26

Two things work really well if you want to develop influence: having a strong opinion and not having a strong opinion. If a booming voice and a belly full of charisma was the only recipe, Todd Raphael would be completely out of luck (SOL). Being a connector is vastly more than [...]

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Top Influencers v1.25 Valerie Frederickson

Posted on 31. Aug, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
Valerie Frederickson v1.25 The Sage
The amazing thing about Valerie Frederickson is that she is really easy to like and a fun conversation partner. Equally comfortable with a stuck, neurotic mid-career bureaucrat and the all-star executives she places, Frederickson is the model of grace and sophistication. She is uniquely able to tell you about [...]

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Top Influencers v1.24 Elliot Clark

Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
Elliot Clark: The Publisher
Kenexa had plans to build a ‘Recruiting Factory’ fifteen years ago, in 1994. Although there is great debate among the progenitors about who invented the Recruitment Process Outsourcing business, Kenexa made a decent stab at the question. The Recruiting Factory applied industrial engineering, process management and division of labor to [...]

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