Alan Whitford

Current

Founding Partner at RCEuro, The Recruitment Community for Europe
Owner at Abtech Partnership

Past

Founding Partner at Classified Solutions Holdings
Partner at EuroRSCG Engage
Founder, Director European Chapter at HR- XML Consortium

Managing Director at Resumix
European Marketing Director at Hogan Systems

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Education

State University of New York at Binghamton
Wayland Central School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Human Resources

Websites

Alan Whitford’s Summary

Alan Whitford has over 20 years experience in the start-up and expansion of high technology businesses in Europe. Abtech provides strategic and practical insights to the automation and web-enablement of Human Resource and Recruitment Process activities. Alan is a frequent chairman and participant in European conference programmes. He has been published in a number of on-line and off-line media covering technical and strategic HR and Recruitment issues.

Alan launched RCEuro.com, the Recruitment Community for Europe, to serve the European staffing and recruitment sector with a range of vertical community applications and services. Our aim is to partner and stimulate debate, best practices and knowledge sharing within the European Recruitment community. The launch event was the 4th annual Global Recruitment Conference in Amsterdam on 11-13 November 2008. www.globalrecruitmentconference.com

Whitford served a 2 year term as an Advisory Board member of Hire.com, was a founding board member of the European Chapter of the HR-XML Consortium and is a founding member of the UK ORMC (On-line Recruitment Marketing Council).

PUBLISHED WORKS
Personnel Today One Stop Guide Online Recruitment

UK Recruiter Newsletter
Published by New Media in Business
Regular column on Recruitment Technologies, E-recruitment trends and surveys

Alan Whitford’s Specialties:

TOPICS OF EXPERTISE
Internet and Intranet Technologies in HR and Recruitment;
Recruitment Strategies and Practices
Social and Business Networking
Automation of HR Processes
E-Government
Start up companies
Change Management
Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital
Return on Investment of automating processes and the use of the Internet

Alan Whitford’s Experience

Founding Partner

RCEuro, The Recruitment Community for Europe

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

RCEuro, The Recruitment Community for Europe, is the first Pan European community site where recruiters and HR professionals can seek information, share knowledge and network together across boundaries, cultures and languages, all at no charge. The founders are creating a dynamic community (http://www.RCEuro.com) where the members will create blogs, contribute and share knowledge and best practice in groups, submit thought leadership articles and ask questions and create debate through the forums.

RCEuro was launched at the highly successful Global Recruitment Conference 2008 in Amsterdam.

RCEuro is not just an on-line community. The team will sponsor, participate in and run conferences and networking events across Europe to further facilitate learning and best practice in recruitment.

We are passionate about recruitment. Companies are built by talented people, who hire talented people and help to transform their organisations. We want you to network with your fellow recruiters and help others transform their recruiting practices>
Owner

Abtech Partnership

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 1980 — Present (29 years 11 months)

Abtech provides Recruitment Process Review and Online Recruitment Strategy services which determine the needs and requirements for automating recruitment activities and in preparing for new technology solutions, including the Internet.
Founding Partner

Classified Solutions Holdings

(Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 6 months)

Classified Solutions is a Dutch based company founded to revolutionise the world of on-line recruitment with its Web 2.0 recruitment portal technologies, particularly the first truly candidate centric job board, www.kangarooster.nl. The integration of data parsing, intelligent matching and intuitive candidate/recruiter User Interface delivers an easy to use and highly accurate employment experience.
Partner

EuroRSCG Engage

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Euro RSCG Engage was started to develop the candidate centric integration of technology, branding and candidate relationship management under the banner of The Employment Consumer. For the first time, organisations have been presented with solutions that integrate consumer branding and marketing techniques with leading edge technology solutions to identify and communicate with candidates on a regular basis.

Engage developed integrated technology solutions for career sites, back office recruitment processes and provided strategic consulting on HR and Recruitment issues.
Founder, Director European Chapter

HR- XML Consortium

(Management Consulting industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )
Managing Director

Resumix

(Management Consulting industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )
European Marketing Director

Hogan Systems

(Management Consulting industry)

1983 — 1984 (1 year )

Alan Whitford’s Education

State University of New York at Binghamton

B A , HIstory , 1969 — 1974
Wayland Central School

1965 — 1969

Additional Information

Alan Whitford’s Websites:

Alan Whitford’s Interests:

RCEuro, Candidate Relationship Management, blog, e-recruitment, recruitment strategy, pan-European social and business networks, investor strategy, new business start-ups

Alan Whitford’s Groups:

HR-XML Consortium, European Chapter - Founding Board Member
HR-XML Consortium - New Hire, Metrics, SEP workgroups
ORMC (On-line Recruitment Marketing Council) - founding Member
Institute of Directors - Member
Institute of Sales and Marketing Management - Member, BFI Conference, UK Recruiter, ERE, LinkedIn, ecademy

Human Capital Institute
HR-XML
Chinwag
Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
ERE.net
EMEA recruiters - knowledge sharing group
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
RecruitingBlogs
Global Recruiters
Binghamton University Alumni (and Faculty)
GroupLinked.com
Innovative Recruitment Forum
FastTrack 100 (8,000+ members!)
The Executive Search Group
Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals (30.000+)
Human Resources UK
Complete Career Network
Openreq.com (Recruiters & Staffing Professionals)
Corporate Recruiters. #1 Group for Corporate Recruiters.
Elite Recruitment Leaders
LION500.com (Open Networkers)
Web 2.0 - Web 3.0 for HRM
RecruitingBlogs.com Group
RPOSpace
RecruitmentToolbox
Dutch LIONs (Open Networkers)
StaffingForce
TopLinked HR (Human Resources) Professionals
Talent Management Technology
International Executive Recruiting - IER
Recruitment Community Europe
The Network (Global Online Recruitment - 119 countries)
Future Social Media
Recruiters in the UK
Recruitment Leaders Worldwide
HR Connexions
The Talent Pool - How To Identify & Attract The Best Available Talent In The Market
The Art Of Recruiting
National Online Recruitment Awards Group
Onboarding Best Practices- Clearing the 90-Day Hurdle
NuWorldwide (Open Networkers)
Job Seekers Europe
Keep Britain Working
Star:Candidate for Hire
The Sowerby Group Limited
UK Recruitment Professionals
Connecting recruiters worldwide for business leads
Harpur College of Arts and Sciences Alumni (and Faculty)
Softworld
UK Members event