Alan Whitford

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 throughout Europe. 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 was one of the early Bloggers in the European recruitment and HR space.

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

In addition to his long term career with Abtech, Alan is a founding Partner in two start-up companies in the European recruitment industry.

Dutch technologist Classified Solutions Holdings has been building a new generation of recruiting platforms, using matching, extraction and a unique job and skills taxonomy. Kangarooster.com is the first of its initiatives to provide Web 2.0 technologies to candidate and recruiter alike with an easy to use interface that encourages true candidate relationship communications. The 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).

A frequent participant and chair of European conference programmes, Alan was the originator and chairman of the totaljobs.com Internet Recruitment series, which educated more than 8,500 participants in 3 years. More recently he initiated a series of Quality Recruitment seminars in the UK with EuroRSCG Riley, Taleo and SHL.

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