12/11 New event: Strong research skills open up career opportunities

[Google Search Educators]

Hi Search Educators,

***Please excuse cross-posting****

We've been pretty quiet as we are hard at work on the Advanced Power Searching course, but I am taking a bit of time off next week to try out a new type of event via Google Hangouts. I hear from you that students often question the usefulness of knowing how to do research, so I am bringing in professionals for whom research is an integral part of how they excel in their fields and build strong careers. In addition, I am selecting people who work in professions of which students might not otherwise be aware. So this brief Hangout is kind of a two-for-one deal--learn about intriguing career options and witness how research skills can make the particular career path possible.

The inaugural session of this occasional series will feature the folks who inspired the idea in the first place: professional Sourcers Glen Cathey and Nick Whiteman of Randstad Sourceright. They find strong candidates for jobs their clients need to fill, and make fantastic use of search and research in the process. 

What:      Research Career Fair

Where:    The Hangout will occur on www.google.com/+GoogleinEducation. The archive will be available at http://www.youtube.com/user/eduatgoogle.

When:     December 11, 2012 (1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific)

How:       Come to www.google.com/+GoogleinEducation and look for the post for the Hangout. Click "play" and watch it right there in the stream. You need to be able to access YouTube to watch this Hangout.

Who:

Glen Cathey

Vice President, Global Sourcing and Talent Strategy

An industry-known thought leader and accomplished global recruiting innovator, Glen Cathey is the vice president of Global Sourcing and Talent Strategy for Randstad's recruitment process outsourcing business, Randstad Sourceright, which is responsible for nearly 100,000 hires per year. With more than 15 years of recruiting and staffing experience, Cathey leads the organization’s Sourcing Center of Expertise to deliver cutting-edge recruiting and sourcing strategies, best practices and market intelligence to Randstad Sourceright’s customers.

Pursuing a passion for optimizing every step of the recruiting life-cycle, Cathey is especially proficient at leveraging technology – including databases, social networks, applicant tracking systems, and the web – to help clients find, engage and hire the right individuals more quickly and effectively. Cathey draws from an extensive history of sourcing, recruiting and hiring IT professionals; but also provides thought leadership, training and support for the healthcare, government solutions, finance and accounting industries, with additional expertise in clinical research and internal hiring.

He is also author of Boolean Black Belt, a popular sourcing and recruiting blog with significant global readership, that attracts more than 12,000 unique visitors per month from more than 100 countries.

Nick Whiteman

Talent Sourcing Specialist

Nick has a B.S. of Business Administration and an M.A. in National Security Studies- Terrorism Studies. He has a varied business background ranging from Non-Destructive Testing (Industrial X-Ray) to the Recruiting and Staffing Industries. He is currently working for the foremost thought leaders in the Sourcing world for Randstad Sourceright, which requires him to utilize his business and research background to discover talent hidden amongst the deep pools of human capital data by implementing tools and techniques that allow him to leverage technology and social media to quickly identify candidates with the skill set and appropriate experience that fulfills the needs of the client.

Hope to see you there,

Tasha Bergson-Michelson

Google Search Educator

Questions: t...@google.com