Online Recruitment Expo - 12-13th September 2006, Chicago

Speaker Profile for Online Recruitment Expo 2006
Don Ramer, CEO, RecruitUSA, Inc

Don Ramer will be chairing the Discussion Panel on the 12th September at 16:30 - 17:15

Don Ramerís commitment to recruitment spans over 30 years. He began his career in executive search in 1974. Over the next 6 years he worked in both contingency and retainer environments serving as Assistant to the President at two AESC registered firms.

In 1980 he formed The Ramer Group a recruiting firm specializing in the placement of Data Security executives for major financial institutions in New York City. In 1986 he launched The Recruitment Research Institute and served as Executive Director. Under the auspices of the Institute he began publication of a newsletter for the Human Resources community entitled The Alternative Employment Marketplace and delivered seminars throughout the US on ìImproving Quality and Reducing Costs Through the Alternative Employment Marketplace.î Much of the Instituteís research was subsequently published and distributed by The Bureau of National Affairs.

In 1988 Don launched the Employment Management Group a high-level management consultancy focused on change management in recruitment and selection for very large employers. In addition to intensive reviews of recruitment and selection effectiveness EMG, planned, directed, organized and controlled recruitment and selection strategy, tactics, and operations on behalf of clients in the telecommunications and enterprise software industries.

In august of 1993, Don began working with the America Online Career Center to accelerate sales of their of their Online Recruitment Advertising products. Driven by his vision of the relationship between proactive recruiting and the up-and-coming universe of online job boards, Don created the concept of a central marketplace that would streamline HR professionalsí connection to many vendors. In 1996 he and his partners launched RecruitUSA, Inc. and have since defined web recruiting for many of the worldís premier employers through partnerships and knowledge management.

Recruitment Advertising Expo - David Hurst, Founder of Onrec.com, explains the background to the Online Recruitment HR Conference and Expo, being held on 12-13th September, 2006, Chicago, Illinois

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