Jason Gorham

Current

• Strategic Advisor at ACLynn
• President - Chief Thinking Officer at Sharkstrike.com

Past

• Partner at Impact Technical Resources

Education

• Roger Williams University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Jason

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Company
• ACLynn

Jason Gorham’s Summary

Motivational speaker Jason Gorham, CEO of SharkStrike, helps people learn how to make the jump from being good at attracting the right candidates for their open positions to helping them understand and develop the skills it takes to be great. He gets them to understand what candidates, products, services, —or those of their competitors—are selected. As he says, “If the world agreed on what’s best, everybody would choose the best and nothing else would be considered. Recruiting doesn’t work that way.”

As a motivational speaker, advisor, author and entertainer, Gorham has worked with some of the world’s most effective corporate leaders, human resource personnel and recruiters, from multibillion-dollar manufacturers to top international recruiting agencies. With over a decade of experience in recruiting, Gorham has developed a reputation has being a leading expert in the new era of recruiting. Having launched several recruiting organizations such as SharkStrike, and CareerMetaSearch.com – as well as developing a patented process called “Push Posting 2.0,” which eliminates the deluge of wrong candidates for a particular job. Currently, Gorham serves as both CEO and Managing Director for Sharkstrike.com, and CEO of CareerMetaSearch.com.

Gorham is a highly regarded expert source among both the media and the staffing community. He was Dual Category Finalist in the Citrix Technology Awards. Some of his speaking engagements include: Kennedy Conference, ERE Conference, Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs, MIT South Florida Group, Online Recruitment (London). He has also been interviewed both offline and online by the following publications: Business Week, About.com, Wall Street Journal - Career Journal, Hunt Scanlon, The Angel Journal, Classified Intelligence, Recruiter UK, Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, Sun Sentinel, Newsday. Jason holds a Bachelors Degree from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Jason Gorham’s Specialties:

recruiting, mentoring, recruitment consulting, recruiting consulting, seo, sem, ats systems, ppc, technical recruiting, online recruiting, name sourcing, pay per click, website analytics

Jason Gorham’s Experience

• Strategic Advisor

  ACLynn

  (Retail industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  ACLynn is the home of the Fortune Cookie Wristlet
  
  I assist this handbag designer to make introductions and partnerships with brick & mortar retail outlets, e-tailers and TV shoppers.

• President - Chief Thinking Officer

  Sharkstrike.com

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  August 2003 — Present (6 years)

  Mr Gorham began his career in SEO/SEM in 2003 and has created a patent pending SEM product that extracts keywords from job postings and then inserts them into Pay-Per-Click advertising platforms. Some of his accomplishments include
  
  • Creation of SEM platform consisting of Analytics, Keyword Bid Management & Keyword database consisting of over 100,000 job related keywords. Gorham has worked with Fortune 100 companies to help them understand job site analytics
  • Dual Category Finalist for the Citrix Technology Awards.
  • Working with Fortune 100 companies to create passive candidate strategies including candidate analytics and SEM/SEO
  
  Considered as a highly regarded expert source among both the media and the staffing community, and has been interviewed by the following publications: BusinessWeek, Wall Street Journal - Career Journal, About.com, Newsday, Hunt Scanlon, Classified Intelligence, The Angel Journal, JimStroud.com, Recruiter UK, Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post and Sun Sentinel. He holds a Bachelors Degree from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

• Partner

  Impact Technical Resources

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  August 2000 — May 2003 (2 years 10 months)

  Started a self funded two pp technical recruiting company. Challenges overcome: new client development, cash flow positive, staying afloat in a down market, sourcing candidates with no recruting budget.
  
  Clients included: Nortel, MCI, 170 systems.

Jason Gorham’s Education

• Roger Williams University

  BS , Criminial Justice , June 1989 — June 1993

Additional Information

Jason Gorham’s Websites:

• My Company
• ACLynn

Jason Gorham’s Interests:

recruiter, recruiting, staffing, job listing, angel investors, angel investor, equity captal raising, new partnership development, new product enhancement, sales growth, technical recruiting, networking with industry professionals.

Jason Gorham’s Honors:

Dual Category Finalist - Citrix Software Awards 2006

Jason Gorham’s Contact Settings

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