Alan Whitford

Current

Founding Partner at Recruitment Community 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 and his partner Keith Robinson are launching Recruitment Community 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 signature event is the 4th annual Global Recruitment Conference in Amsterdam on 11-13 November 2008. www.globalrecruitmentconference.com

Alan is a founding Partner in Dutch technologist Classified Solutions which is building a new generation of recruiting technologies, using matching, extraction and a unique job and skills taxonomy. www.Kangarooster.com is the first of its initiatives to provide Web 2.0 solutions to candidate and recruiter alike that encourages true candidate relationship communications. The KangaTechnology product set for the staffing and corporate recruiting community will include a 'white label' out of the box solution which can power job boards and corporate career sites.

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
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

Recruitment Community Europe

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (10 months)

RCE is the top line grouping of a range of vertical community applications and services founded to serve the European staffing and recruitment sector. Our aim is to partner and stimulate debate, best practices, and knowledge share within the European Recruitment community.

The co-founders are Keith Robinson and Alan Whitford. The team behind RCE has significant experience of the recruitment, media, and publishing sector. Keith and Alan are acknowledged industry thought leaders and speak regularly at recruitment conferences across Europe.

The RCE signature event is the 4th annual Global Recruitment Conference in Amsterdam on 11-13 November 2008.

Join the Recruitment Community Europe LinkedIn Group or visit the conference website on: www.globalrecruitmentconference.com
Owner

Abtech Partnership

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 1980 — Present (28 years 10 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

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; 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. The first truly candidate centric job board, www.kangarooster.nl launches in March 2008. The integration of data parsing, intelligent matching and intuitive canidate/recuiter User Interface delivers an easy to use and highly accurate employment experience. CSH is providing the technology platform in a 'white label' format to power corporate Career Sites and dedicated job boards across Europe.
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:

Candidate Relationship Management, blog, e-recruitment

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
Institue of Sales and Marketing Management - Member, BFI Conference, UK Recruiter, ERE, LinkedIn, ecademy