Declan Fitzgerald

Current

Global Sourcing Manager at Microsoft

Past

Lead European Technical Recruiter and Sourcing Trainer at Microsoft
HR Start-Up Manager at Vordel - Web Services Security

Education

University College Dublin
University College Dublin

Recommended

21 people have recommended Declan

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Human Resources

Websites

Declan Fitzgerald’s Summary

A Social Media Punk.
An Internet Junkie.
A Global Souring Manager with 13+ years experience.
A Member of Microsoft's Global Sourcing Training Committee.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.
A Cloud Recruitment Convert.
A Mobile Recruitment Enthusiast.
Europe and Ireland's first certified AIRS recruiter.
A Searchologist.
A Gadget Geek.
A RSS Roady.
An Anarchist Automator.
A Cyber Gypsy.
A Deep Web Disciple.
A Twitter Tattler.
A Futurist.
And, a Boolean Black Belt :)

Believe me I've been called worse!

You can catch me at declan.fitzgerald@gmail.com or on Twitter at @irishrecruiters. And don't forget to check out my blog which I'm delighted to say is the most popular recruitment blog in Ireland: http://irishcybersleuth.blogspot.com/

The future of recruitment is in the cloud!!!

Oh yeah, before I forget I set up some some LinkedIn HR and Recruitment groups you may be interested in checking out: (1) "Irish Recruiters" with 1000+ members [you can learn more about it in the presentation below], (2) "Human Resources Ireland" with 200+ members and (3) "Irish Recruiters - Job Seekers Career Advice", which has been set up to assist jobseekers seek advice from the Irish recruitment industry on issues such as CVs, interview tips, using social media, etc.

Happy Hunting!

Declan Fitzgerald’s Specialties:

cloud recruitment, sourcing strategy architecture, sourcing training design and delivery, recruitment evangelism, research methodologies, web recruiting,Google and Live recruiting, recruitment blogs, automation techniques, search engine usage, boolean searching, cybersleuths, global sourcing, global recruitment, EMEA recruitment, analytics, passive candidate hunting and engagement, headhunting, company mapping, human resource management, venture capitalism,

Declan Fitzgerald’s Experience

Global Sourcing Manager

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Nowdays I support our businesses move to a distributive development model by helping Microsoft's strategic international development centres: Boston, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, India and China, to improve their sourcing strategies. Of particular interest to me is supporting sourcing initiatives that will drive experienced core-tech candidates to each of the development centres, up-skilling the local recruitment team with sourcing training sessions, identifying opportunities for shared information flows and running joint marketing initiatives.
Lead European Technical Recruiter and Sourcing Trainer

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 4 months)

I am the lead recruiter for Microsoft Research Ireland which sources a variety of skill sets including architects, managers, developers and testers across a large number of teams and domain spectrums. I teach sourcing techniques on the Internet and have trained teams in Europe and Asia. I work on strategic marketing and research projects that will support the business across Europe move to a more distributive development model including white papers on how technology is changing recrutiment and competitive analysis..
HR Start-Up Manager

Vordel - Web Services Security

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — March 2004 (4 years 3 months)

Brillant experience. Started as the HR Manager and blurred into an operational manager role when the new CEO was hired and decided to base himself in London not Dublin! Nearest thing to a practical-MBA i've ever seen!

Declan Fitzgerald’s Education

University College Dublin

Masters in Business , 1995 — 1996

Activities and Societies:

Lucky enough to win a scholarship for 4 years. Free accomadation and fees is great!
University College Dublin

Commerce , Human Resources/IT , 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Declan Fitzgerald’s Websites:

Declan Fitzgerald’s Interests:

Languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Irish), Travel, Vespas, Videotography, Soccer, Writing (Novels, Screen Plays, Articles) Cooking and most definitely Internet Technologies