Alan Strauss

Current

Consultant/Founder of Talent Acquisition Leadership Council (TALC) at StartFinder Solutions

Past

Recruitment Outsourcing Executive Director at Clovis
President at StartFinder
Sales at Brainbench

Senior Associate at Kforce/Source Services

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Education

University of Maryland College Park

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Connections

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Industry

Human Resources

Alan Strauss’s Summary

I have over 15 year's of industry experience including extensive expereince within the talent acquisition industry.

Additionally, I manage an executive forum for Recruitment Leaders. With over 90 members from over 45 companies, the Talent Acquisition Leadership Council (TALC) has emerged as the area’s leading network for corporate recruiting directors and managers. Our roundtable primary goals are the following:

 To provide members with a “comfortable” environment to share industry best practices that a specific to recruitment leaders
 To serve as a professional network group of managers in the recruitment industry

Prior to working for Clovis, I founded HR Services Company, and I was one of the first employees of Brainbench (a leading online assessment and certification company). Additionally, I have held sales and sales/recruiter positions at Source EDP (now kforce) and a local staffing company-Mindbank Consulting Group.

Alan Strauss’s Specialties:

Developing leading recruitment strategies for large and small organizations

Alan Strauss’s Experience

Consultant/Founder of Talent Acquisition Leadership Council (TALC)

StartFinder Solutions

(Human Resources industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

StartFinder provides management consulting services to leading Talent Acquisition organizations. Recent market conditions are providing a unique opportunity for recruitment leaders to reevaluate their organization’s current and future capabilities. StartFinder’s services include:

•Developing more strategic customer engagement strategies
•Improving organizational performance (Topgrading)
•Building strategic vendor management programs
Recruitment Outsourcing Executive Director

Clovis

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

March 2006 — April 2009 (3 years 2 months)

In this role, I was responsible for the building and managing an industry leading, recruitment outsourcing solution. Clovis Recruitment Outsourcing organization provided RPO and hourly recruitment solutions to large Fortune 500 companies and Professional Services organizations.
President

StartFinder

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

August 2001 — March 2006 (4 years 8 months)

As the founder of StartFinder, I consulted to staffing firms on specific industry trends, and developed an outsourcing business model.
Sales

Brainbench

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 2 months)

I started with the founders in their basements, and I helped build the organization to 120 person company in less than 2 years. I was responsible for closing sales of Brainbench technology and services to large IT and staffing companies.
Senior Associate

Kforce/Source Services

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KFRC; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Alan Strauss’s Education

University of Maryland College Park

Additional Information

Alan Strauss’s Groups:

DCRecruiters.com
Human Capital Institute
Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
RecruitingBlogs
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Kforce Professional Network
University of Maryland, College Park Alumni Association
Staffing Industry Analysts Corporate Members
Talent Acquisition Leadership Council
Talent Acquisition Research and Best Practices Network