DAVE MENDOZA

Current

Senior Staffing Strategies & Research Consultant at Palm Inc.
Master Cybersleuth Consultant, Affiliate Partner at Shally Steckerl's Job Machine, Inc.
Competitive Research Principal at Dave Mendoza & Associates, Inc (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Staffing Consultant at Linkedin Corporation
Global Strategic Tools & Sourcing Technologies, Management Consultant at Freescale Semiconductor
Sr Recruiter, Global Talent Management at International Rectifier

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Education

Completed Shally Steckerl's JobMachine CyberSleuth Training
University of Notre Dame
California State University, Fullerton

California State University, Fullerton
AIRS

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2 more...

Recommended

78 people have recommended DAVE

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

DAVE MENDOZA’s Summary

Feel free to send invites directly: ldavemendoza@gmail.com

"Six Degrees from Dave" Awarded:
RecruitingBlogs.com, "Best Overall Recruitment Blog of 2007"
RecruitingBlogs.com, "Best HR Industry Blog of 2007"
HireAbility, "Best Recruitment Blog of 2007"

Join my "SixDegrees" Linkedin Group at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/37511/3DC0233041F8 as featured at MyLinkGroups.com"

I am one of the top 20 connectors on Linkedin. I am a sourcing guru, recruitment author/blogger of SixDegreesfroDave.com, and an evangelist of building talent pipeline relationships.

My recruitment blog "Six Degrees from Dave, spotlights HR industry leaders, sourcing gurus, global staffing practices and social networking. It was recently honored with 3 awards: RecruitingBlogs.com's "Best Overall Recruitment Blog of 2007" & "Best Recruitment Industry Blog of 2007, and HireAbility's "Best Recruitment Blog of 2007." My blog was listed #3 out of 25 of the best blogs of 2007 by HRWorld.com. His site also received most votes for Best Recruitment blog of 2006 at Recruiting.com..

I have presented at global recruitment conferences, Staffing Management Association events, webinars and workshops. I co-presented at the AustralAsian Talent Conference on "Blogging for Talent" with Kevin Wheeler and served on a panel on "Social Media: How is Technology Impacting Recruitment?" Panelist at Kennedy Expo Vegas 2008’s “Ask the Experts — a Sourcing Summit Town Hall.” I served as Moderator for a Three Part Kennedy Info, Audio Series on “Blogging for Talent, Branding and Web 2.0 Relationships” and a Kennedy Conference & Expo General Assembly Panel, "Blogging from ‘Guerilla’ Marketing to Mainstream Recruiting," Co-Presented “Mastering Linkedin” and Co-Presented at ERE ”Full Day Master Session, Advanced Sourcing Workshop” with Shally Steckerl and Glenn Gutmacher.

DAVE MENDOZA’s Specialties:

Expertise in developing robust Passive Talent Microsite Communities

Expertise in Sourcing methodologies with intricate Name Generation capabilities, Employment branding, and advanced sourcing instruction. Emphasis on passive talent oriented strategy which extends the brand throughout captive niche audiences among passive talent leads, and advocate of building a global network of self sustaining sourcing hubs.

DAVE MENDOZA’s Experience

Senior Staffing Strategies & Research Consultant

Palm Inc.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Wireless industry)

October 2007 — Present (10 months)

Staffing Consultation providing competitive intelligence in addition to both Strategic & Tactical advisement.
Master Cybersleuth Consultant, Affiliate Partner

Shally Steckerl's Job Machine, Inc.

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

September 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Dave Mendoza & Associates, Inc. provides advanced Cyberseluth Training and customized consultation as an Affiliate Partner with Shally Steckerl's Job Machine, Inc. to help you find the hardest to source experts in all kinds of professional disciplines. JobMachine' provides the best recruitment consulting and training solution.
Competitive Research Principal
Dave Mendoza & Associates, Inc (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Semiconductors industry)

January 2000 — Present (8 years 7 months)

Our firm offers Strategic Development & implementation, Candidate Sourcing & Recruiting Services:
* Name Generation Analysis to identify passive talent among key competitors
* Candidate development targeting key competitor by niche industries.
* Talent-Based Social Networking
* Corporate employment branding consultation
* Customized services to enable staffing team leadership and organizations with recruitment tool solutions
* Collaborate with recruitment application technology vendors in the enhancement of beta phase roll-outs.
Staffing Consultant

Linkedin Corporation

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

April 2007 — October 2007 (7 months)

Competitive Intelligence research which resulted in an extensive mapping of thousands of Bay Area J2EE, Ruby on Rails, QA Black & White Box/Junit and Executive level talent identification.
Global Strategic Tools & Sourcing Technologies, Management Consultant

Freescale Semiconductor

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

May 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Idea engine conception and implementation to elevate FSL's Strategic Tools & Sourcing Technologies into a dynamic Central Sourcing Model on a domestic and global scale. Consultative partnering with FSL Staffing Manager of Americas to review corporate blog and referral platforms and enhance SEO productivity, passive candidate development, social relationship management, employment branding, and corporate recruitment processes. In addition, I provide Research Intelligence in the form of comprehensive talent directories of passive talent prospects.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(r), is the third largest independent semiconductor company in the U.S. Please visit us at http://www.freescale.com.
Sr Recruiter, Global Talent Management

International Rectifier

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

January 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Leading semiconductor corp in Power Management ICs with nearly 6,000 employees worldwide. Principal, Research Intelligence/ Sr. Talent Acquisition Recruiter on behalf of IR's Global Staffing Management. Developed comprehensive competitor directories of passive prospects and primary initiator of candidate development. Oversaw identification of talent potentials across departmental classifications, establishing substantive talent networking trees, initiated Corporate Open House events nationally, and served as primary liaison in the development of collaborative relationships with Outplacement providers and clientele. Talent interest areas as follows: Analog/Mixed Signal Design, Device engineering, Environmental, Health & Safety, FAE’s, Failure Analysis, Foundry, IC Mixed Signal Test, Layout, PDK, Process Integration, Product, Packaging, Manufacturing, and Quality engineering in addition to sales and marketing arenas

DAVE MENDOZA’s Education

Completed Shally Steckerl's JobMachine CyberSleuth Training

Advanced E-CruitingTraining Methods & Strategies 2006 — 2006
University of Notre Dame

Masters, Additional Graduate Studies, September 1996 — May 1997
California State University, Fullerton

Masters, Master in Human Resources, January 1993 — August 1996
California State University, Fullerton

Bachelors, Russian & Central European Studies, January 1989 — January 1993
AIRS

Training, Certified, Sourcing & Diversity Recruitment, November 2002

Additional Information

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DAVE MENDOZA’s Interests:

Social Networking Relationships & Blogging Enthusiast, Recruitment Technology. I am passionate in my altruistic belief that networking with fellow recruiters and staffing managers is essential to developing relationships that lead to new methods, tools, and talent pools. Join me in spreading the faith - Relationship Building in our daily lives and connecting the corporate recruitment universe specifically for the empowerment of all.

DAVE MENDOZA’s Groups:

JobMachine's CyberSleuths
Elite CyberSleuthing
CyberSleuthing
Electronic Recruiters Exchange (ERE) Contributor & Attendee
Recruiting2006 - Kennedy Conference Attendee
Recruiters Network
The DallasBlue Business Network
TopLinkedin
MyLinkedinPowerForum
LinkedInnovators Forum
LinkedInBloggers Forum
LinkedInLions Forum
Linkedin Aggregators
LinkedinAssociation
Linkedin.com-Customer Advisory Group Member

SVHUB member
The DallasBlue Business Network member
ASSODIGITALE - www.assodigitale.it - member
CareerLink Network member
Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (LRIG) member
Enterprise Architect User Group member
Executive Suite member
International Association of Software Architects member
Integrated Alliances member
Forbes.com New York City Group member
Forbes.com San Francisco Group member
Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
Forbes.com Personal Technology Forum member
Forbes.com Life member
OPEN Forum member
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières member
LinkedSEO member
KIVA member
World Wildlife Fund member
Unitus member
Zubka member
LInked Business Strategists member
Clarisoft Technologies member
Austin High-Tech member
Interaction Design Association member
LinkedHR member
Business Intelligence Group member
Electrical/Electronics and Computer Development Engineers Group member
OpenNetworkers.info member
Marathoners member
iGAMING Business Group member
HomelandSecurity member
Worldwide Management Consultants member
Overachievers Club member
Outsourcing Eastern Europe, Russia and former CIS countries member
Link2Europe member
MobilOpen :: the International Mobile Internet Group member
Semiconductor Professional's Group member
Virtual Business Card member
International Network of Social Entrepreneurs member
Technical Recruitment [Members 5000+ ] member
Friends of Finland member
UAE staffing and Recruitment- HR solutions group member
XING.com member
ERE.net member
MyLink500 member
Canadians member
Hilton Diamond Honors member
Toronto member
e-BIZ member
Global Worker member
SEOecom - Online Business Users member
Wireless Jobs member
Expertise for Hire member
MyLinkGroups member
Lighthouse Venture Group's Alternative Investment Roundtable member
MyLinkWiki member
Professional Mentoring Group member
Sourcers Guild member
Recruiting Animal Show member
For Knowledge Persons member
Who's Your Daddy? member
Six Degrees (Staffing Only) member
Embedded member
Friends of Ireland member
J2EE Forum member
J2SE User Forum (NO RECRUITERS!) member
Build & Release Engineering Forum member
i18n & L10n Engineering Forum (USERS ONLY) member
Junit User Forum (USERS ONLY) member
Palm Careers member
Analog Design Group member
Networking pros member
Java User Forum (Users Only - No Staffing) member
Rich User Interface Forum member
RUBY ON RAILS (RoR) (NO RECRUITERS) member
Stanford Engineers (ALUMNI ONLY) member
Berkeley Engineers (Alumni Only) member
.NET User Forum (NO RECRUITERS!) member
QA Automation member
Selenium User Forum member
Friends of Holland / The Netherlands; DutchConnectionAZ.org member
Google Group member
AJAX (NO RECRUITERS!) member
Java Mobile Embedded (SW Experts ONLY) member
Hibernate (Experts ONLY) member
Indeed.com member
J2EE Mobile Applications member
LI Socials member
Business Intelligence Professionals member
Linked LInterims member
The Wall Street Journal Group member
PHP User Forum member
London IN member
Poland member
Craigslist Group member
.NET Developers member
Global group member
Chicagoland HR Network member
LinkedCincinnati member
China Networking Group member
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) member
Mobile Experience Design member
(BIOPHARMER) Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Recruiters Network member
TopLinked.com member
TalentBar: HR and Recruiter Network member
GoSecure member
Global Recruiters member
Coffee Connections member
Friends of Britain member
CRM Experts member
Mercedes Benz Owners Clubs - Around the World member
Microsoft Excel Users member
THE GLOBAL SOURCING COUNCIL (GSC) member
Ukrainian Recruitment member
Candidate Pipeline Development ™ member
LI Recruiters Network member
MagicMethod (Telephone Name Sourcing) member
Ti22 Associates Global Network member
Leading International Open Networkers (LION) member
Canadian Web 2.0 Jobs member
Open Moko member
Qtopia member
GUI Toolkit, Mobile Industry member
Open Source Mobile member
Open Source Central member
Capital Markets & Financial Services Network member
GroupLinked.com member
Information Architecture Institute (IAI) member
Australasian Talent Conference member
Innovative Recruitment Forum member
Gateway to Russia (Friends of Russia) member
Recruitment Consultants (9000+) member
Friends of Morocco member
Boston Financial Network member
Investment Banking Network member
Wall Street Journal Network member
Barrons's Network member
Bloomberg Network member
New York Financial Services Network member
Investment Management Group member
Investing Forum member
Financial IT member
Trading & Risk Management member
Diversity - A World of Change member
Medical Professional Network member
Marketing Professionals Network member
Accounting Network member
Onsite Recruitment Network member
Recruitment Process Outsourcing member
Mechanical Engineers (Experts ONLY) member
Hardware Engineers (USERS ONLY) member
I-Mate Alumni member
PINC Movement member
Houston Energy Network member
Motorola Global Alumni member
Goldman Sachs Network member
InLinked Cyber Crimes Group member
Product Managers (Professionals Grp Only) member
The Talent Buzz member
RecruitingBlogs.com Group member
Recruitment Community Europe (RCE) member
RF Engineering member
Australian Recruiters and Search Professionals from www.recruitingblogs.com member