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Bill Boorman

…is the co-founder of the global #TRU events (The Recruiting Unconference).

Since 2009 he’s traveled to 4 continents and shared not only his passion, but also his experiences with social recruitment campaigns. His most famous clients are Hard Rock Cafe and Oracle, but he’s always up for a new challenge.

[LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog | Facebook]

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Szabolcs Buda

Country Manager of Monster Hungary and Marketing Director Eastern Europe & Russia at Monster Worldwide

He holds an MSc degree from University of Economics and Technical Sciences of Budapest. He’s been working for the european and global online recruitment industry leaders (jobpilot & monster) for 12 years, holding regional management positions in the area of Product Development, E-Commerce and Marketing. Szabolcs shares his time between Budapest, Warsaw, Prague and he’s a frequent speaker at conferences. He’s proud of his team of professionals and of working for a global HR industry pioneer, that inspires millions of people to improve their lives. He’s hobby is playing golf and running.

[LinkedIn]

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Csudinka Csudutov

Csudi is the founder and leader of Mimox, one of the most important and dependable players of the Hungarian IT Recruitment arena for 13 years now. „Just upload your CV, no need to register!” reads their website, because these guys know what candidates hate… and also what they love.

Gloves-off hands-on career advancement advice for example – which isn’t always what candidates wanted to hear, but instead a realistic assessment of the situation. Over the years Mimox helped hundreds of IT workers to stand tall, find their bearings, avoid maelstroms created by the influx of new technologies and the crosswinds of neglected opportunities, to steadily sail forward their career boats on the IT ocean. And also answered tons of questions like „should I stay or should I go?”

Besides their strong competency and expertise not just on the IT market but the technical side of IT as well, it is how they work with candidates is what makes them exceptional. That’s probably why they are today one of the most popular recruitment companies on the market. And being POPULAR in recruitment is no small feat.

[LinkedIn]

Zsolt Simon

Zsolt Simon is an HR Manager with recruitment experience gained on both the corporate and agency sides. Zsolt started out  in the finance field for a couple of years then committed to HR with  HR and MBA degrees earned in the USA. After taking all the steps in recruitment from sourcing to executive level recruitment at GE,  now he manages the overall recruitment for the 2700 headcount METRO Cash & Carry Hungary as part of the international HR team of the METRO Group.

[LinkedIn]

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Aki Kakko

Ilka Szentkirályi

Ilka is a seasoned Recruitment professional with extensive experience in supporting both local and international business operations. She has worked in a cross-cultural setting with a focus on full-cycle Talent Attraction, incorporating global best practices in recruitment and winning the war for talent.

Specialties

Consulting:
* Talent Sourcing Strategy Development
* Recruitment Process Mapping
* E-Recruitment solutions

Talent Aquisition:
* Recruitment and Induction
* Talent Sourcing, Attraction, Developing & Assessing
* Talent Landscaping & Development of Talent Pools
* E-Recruitment
* Analyse and Improve Recruiting Processes

[LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook]

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Peter Kovacs

“Making and connecting friends”, that is what Peter does. Chasing the answers to his questions in life and being open minded made him join a local startup recruitment agency in Hungary called ProfiPower, which managed to become the market leader in 3 years and got acquired by Randstad in the end of 2010. After the acquisition he got promoted for the manager role of the division focusing on the IT and telco industries, and after a successful year as a manager he decided to join prezi.com as ‘talent scout’ to support the building of a world class company internationally in Budapest, Hungary.

Specialties:

• dedicated specialist of innovative, technology-driven startup companies
• founder and owner of ‘Hungarian IT professionals’ (2900+ and growing) closed professional LinkedIn group
• outstanding business development abilities
• master of professional networking
• people management and motivation
• cross-border recruitment of specialists and executives
• international employer branding and marketing
• career coaching

[LinkedIn | Profile | Twitter]

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Etienne Besson

Etienne is an HR professional from Switzerland. For the last 15 years he’s considered the “virtual” world as much his home as the so-called “real” world.

After attending more than half a dozen #Tru events he decided that it was time to organize #TruGeneva, although (or maybe because) some German bloggers still consider Switzerland to be a developing country in terms of social recruitment.

[LinkedIn | Twitter | Etienne Besson’s Blog]

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Balazs Paroczay

…is the EMEA Sourcing Lead within KellyOCG RPO. Prior to joining KellyOCG, Balazs worked as an EMEA Resourcing Manager and Research Director in various corporate recruiting and Direct Hire organizations.

Balazs is passionate about talent acquisition, discovering innovative resourcing tools and solutions, and creating best-in-class talent resourcing strategies. He excels at social networking and has recently been named as one of the top 25 sourcing experts on the globe and playing a significant role within the global Talent Resourcing Communities.

[LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook]

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Ivan Stojanovic

…comes from the high tech arena at Microsoft where he built his internationalisation am localisation management experience in the ’90-ties. With a strong ‘techie’ background, Ivan has been leading several successful start-up’s in the online recruitment space in the last 10 years. His entrepreneurial spirit have guided him in building better online recruitment tools and processes. Today Ivan works as an advisor on the online presence for the recruiters, social media recruitment trainer and search engine optimisation (SEO) consultant. Ivan also acts as a recruitment marketing advisor for a number of recruitment agencies in several countries.

Known as “Irish Recruiter” in the social media, Ivan has mastered the art of understanding how to attract, and engage with the top talent. Ivan is a ‘Veteran’ blogger, publishing several blogs covering various aspects of online recruitment, career coaching, social media and SEO.

[LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog]

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Sally Hunter

…as RPO Practice Lead EMEA for the Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group, Sally is responsible the RPO proposition from client relationships via the account management team to consulting on HR transformation.

Sally has extensive experience in the human capital sector, including leadership positions within strategic account management for staffing providers to operational delivery.

Sally has also been on the “buy/client” side leading transformational efficiency projects, that  have included the outsourcing of large scale recruitment and learning operations. As an independent Consultant, Sally has worked with a number of clients to build the business case for change and shape their HR model in the context of outsourcing partnerships.

Sally has worked with clients across the following key industry sectors: Financial Services, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals.

[LinkedIn]

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Todd Wheatland

…is the VP – Head of Thought Leadership & Marketing of KellyOCG. With 15 years experience in the human resources and workforce consulting space, Todd has overall responsibility for thought leadership and global marketing initiatives. He has degrees in Commerce (Economics / Marketing) from UWA and Communication from Curtin University.

[LinkedIn | Twitter]

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Zita Kulcsar

Zita is a diverse and truly international corporate recruitment leader, executive search consultant covering multiple business segments within leading corporations and recruitment firms across Europe, Middle East, India and Asia, and a knowledge savvy recruitment 3.0 researcher developing innovative talent attraction platforms and applications for companies.

She has managed recruitment teams and vendors across Europe, Middle-East, India and Asia, with results ranging from achieving large scale talent acquisition projects to managing critical individual search assignments. She is currently focusing on the future potential and challenges the Y, Z generations have to offer, the nature of talent, relationship between people and work, between employers and employees…Zita is an advocate of dialogue and collaboration, and believes in transformational talent and ‘good business’ acumen as the way forward. She is a big fan of TED and TEDx events, and was a TEDGlobal 2011 participant.

[LinkedIn]