Speaker Bio Gautam is the co-founder and CEO of his third start-up company, called Simply Hired, a Web 2.0 online recruiting and ad network company, and noted as the world’s largest search engine for jobs. Prior to Simply Hired, he was the co-founder and CEO of India Community Center, a non-profit focused on bridging the gap between the local and global communities. He continues to serve as a Trustee and Board of Directors at ICC. Prior to ICC, he was CEO and co-founder of AtWeb, an Internet 1.0 company acquired by Netscape/AOL in 1998. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Gautam held various technical positions at several small businesses including HP, IBM, and Microsoft. Gautam is a charter member of the Global TiE organization and serves on the Board and as an angel investor for several start-up companies. Gautam is a regular invited speaker to numerous business, career, academic, and financial conferences and symposiums, including the Dow Jones Emerging Ventures conference and Gautam was the keynote speaker aboard The Apprentice Legend Career Cruise hosted by Donald Trump that sailed the Caribbean. Gautam has presented directly to the internal recruiters for many large corporations recently including Schneider Trucking, Ask, CNN, Time Inc., Washington Post, Ann Taylor, and many more. Session: Online Recruiting Trends and Best Practices Staffing professionals will not want to miss this exciting and informative session where Gautam will share his expert staffing industry insights, highlight hiring trend data for 2008 and walk the audience through a practical “how-to” guide for tapping into the online recruiting market to attract the new generation of talent – the passive candidate. Gautam was a pioneer in the Web. 1.0 days as Co-Founder and CEO of AtWeb, where his team passionately focused on helping employers engage in and simplify their use of technology to increase the operating efficiency of their overall business. Gautam continues his passion today by helping employers, recruiters and staffing agencies to understand the cost per hire efficiencies gained by effectively utilizing the Web as one element in their recruiting plan mix. In turn, staffing professionals will learn how to utilize the Internet and emerging social networks as a crucial recruiting tool for identifying and acquiring the untapped passive candidate pool. Five Specific Learning Objectives: 1. how to utilize technology in passive candidate recruitment efforts (practical tools to maximize sourcing efforts) 2. understanding of the top tier online recruiting terms and definitions (receive handouts of terms to refer to after the session) 3. knowledge of the key benefits of including online as a part of a recruiting plan mix to obtain passive candidates 4. understanding of the ROI of online recruiting (case studies will be presented) 5. practical steps to begin or to optimize online recruiting efforts for maximum performance .