The Speakers
David Hurst, CEO, Onrec - Conference Chairman
David Hurst founded DH Publishing Ltd in 1999, to provide HR Directors & recruiters with information on the online recruitment market. The company now creates forums of discussion, by sharing information online, in print and in person with conferences around the world, bringing experts & practitioners together to discuss & exchange information.
Laura Stoker, Executive Director of Global Training, AIRS
Laura Stoker began her recruiting career as a researcher for executive search firms working on international and domestic projects. She has also worked as a Recruiter for J.D. Edwards in Denver, Colorado and as a Technical Recruiter for EMDS in Brussels, Belgium. She has been using AIRS techniques since she attended one of our first training classes in 1997 and now enjoys teaching the same knowledge to a new generation of Internet Recruiters.
Dave Mendoza, Talent Acquisition Strategies, Informatica
Dave Mendoza is an industry recognized, award winning thought leader in talent acquisition strategies and technologies. He is a much sought after expert in helping corporations develop world class passive talent pipelines with cutting-edge, advanced sourcing methods, and evangelist on behalf of social media branding & identification strategies to attract key talent audiences. Feel free to review his references, at http://bit.ly/dwVWPl & profile, http://linkd.in/oAclk3 Complete Biography: http://bit.ly/davemendoza
Pavlos Paschali, Specialist Employment Law Solicitor, Levenes Employment
Pavlos has been with his firm since 2002 and qualified as a solicitor in March 2004. He regularly represents businesses in the recruitment sector dealing with both advisory matters and disputes. A full profile is available here.
Jason Pierce, Managing Director, SkillsArena
Jason Pierce, MD of SkillsArena liked the company so much, in 2009 he bought it. Using his 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry he focuses on delivering value into businesses by re-engineering processes and designing best of breed technological solutions that support recruitment and HR professionals. He constantly explores opportunities to break the mould and shape new concepts and approaches to add value to recruitment, training and development activities. In particular over the last 8 years, his passion for Skills Testing and Assessment has grown and he has been instrumental in bringing together new ideas, leading technology advancements and innovative system designs with great people to ensure Skillsarena offer the most innovative, flexible and scalable testing system available to Recruitment and Training professionals. Jason is almost as passionate about skills testing as he is about his Land Rover (when its up the right way). He remains convinced that one day he will find that synergy-link between “online skills testing” software and off-roading in his V8!