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Topic: Meet Susan (Kang) Nam, As Rare as a Pink Olive: ing and recruiting industry via utilizing social media, focused on exploring various industries. She is currently working for her sister's boutique, Pink Olive Inc. She is currently serving as a member of board of directors - a VP role at Harvard Club of Andover Inc. She is also actively participating in both on/off sites committees (i.e. Binghamton Planning Committee among other fundraising charity organizations) Previously, Susan held recruiting role at Harvard University. She holds a BA in Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and further explored and pursued graduate studies at University of Rhode Island (for Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology), Columbia University - Teacher's college, Brown University extension programs, Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education master of education courses, Harvard business courses and programs affiliates via extension. Both her senior thesis and masters thesis studies were in the areas of behavioral medicine and leadership. In the future, she hopes to extend herself in Asia (specifically in Korea and Japan) and to further promote open talent development outreach through utilizing various social media platforms along with emphasis on building positive personal/professional brand in corporate organizations. Q&A with Susan (Kang) Nam Six Degrees: Tell us of your home world. Susan: We reside in north of Boston for the past 10 years. My husband KJ (Kyung Jun Nam) is a design engineer and most of his extended family resides in South Korea and majority of his family members are educators. We have a very active social life as we love to spend our summers in either Cape (deep fishing) or Florida (of course, Walt Disney world ventures) and during winter months at Killington Vermont and various locations in NH to ski. Our family life revolves around many travels to NJ and NYC as my extended family resides there. My second sister Jenna's passion is in missionary outreach via Arab world missions and she has recently come back from a long extended trip from countries in Europe and Morocco lending her efforts to spread the word of gospel. My youngest sister Grace is the owner of 2 boutiques "Pink Olive boutique" in east village, NYC & Park Slope Brooklyn. We value each other greatly ~ and yes.. we do have our "moments" :) but love each other with all our hearts. As for Education ~ all of us sisters attended colleges for our undergraduate education in NY (me - SUNY at Binghamton, Jenna - NYU, Grace - Cornell) and we are quite different in so many ways and yet the same despite our various talents and interests. Prior to living & studying in the east coast, we grew up residing in Seoul Korea, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Northern California (San Jose & Cupertino). As the eldest daughter in the family my priority for anything in life goes out to being there for my family - both immediate and extended - as I strongly feel responsible to make sure all of their needs are met in a timely manner. My parents are consistently my primary role models as they continue to live to their fullest despite their recent health scare / obstacles. They continue to impact and shape my life. My dad, graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Engineering, former mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and sales executive traveled worldwide prior to his retirement. My mom, graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in Korean literature, a stay home mom for us 3 girls and recently finished her Ph.D. in Theology and now an associate pastor at Flushing, Queens NY. My other extended family resides in Korea, Japan, Germany, Hong Kong and various states across the US. My background is somewhat unique as I continue to seek out my heritage and aspire to learn new information about my family. We value and honor family, faith, education, personal relationships and community. I talk about Education and Faith quite a bit because we value it probably more than anything else. Our daughter Katie is 7 years old and we hope to continue her languages in Korean & French. and yes.. we do have pets (our daughter's fish family - Aqua plus, Raymond, Gabriella and Hello Kitty) ;) My passion lies in classical piano as I have been playing this instrument since age 4. My other interests are providing nonprofit organizations with their fundraising efforts (in education, charity, esp. for missionaries and cancer research - esp in colon, prostate and breast cancer). I do admire creative people.. especially designers, entrepreneurs, and passionate individuals who work hard every single day to balance their lives. Currently volunteering via various club positions via my Alma maters and other non-profit networking organizations. I admire edgy, passionate, idealistic professionals who work hard to achieve their dreams. Lastly, I do have other various interests in so many however one I can say for sure ~ I aspire to race cars one day (not sure what my parents would say about this ;) Six Degrees: How many years have you been a recruiter? Susan: I am a newbie and continue to learn and exploring the industry as of this summer/fall of 2008. My last full time recruiting related position was 7 years ago. Six Degrees: How did you get started as a recruiter? Susan: I started out in the Harvard Central HR recruiting team at Harvard Employment office 7 years ago. I was working as a technical editing staff support for the Harvard Economics Department at the time after I left NYC (with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Institutional Consulting Group at the World Trade Center). I met the Director of HR via taking her HR course at Harvard and soon after the position became available so I applied for the position and honored to join the team. The Central recruiting team's duties included consulting with rest of the Harvard University recruiting community providing recruiting related information. My niche was in internet recruiting where I dealt with vendors, consulted with advertising executives, and Harvard recruiters to provide cost-effective recruiting strategies for Harvard schools. I was able to write up a grant proposal to cater to their requests, comments to provide additional funds prior to leaving the University to raise my child. I was also very excited about contributing to the diversity outreach by working along with TEAM Harvard organizations (i.e. NAAAP). In the past 7 years, I did have the opportunity to explore few options however I have not had the opportunity to seek out my interest in recruiting as a career until summer of 2008 for various personal/family reasons. Six Degrees: What single event had the most impact on your sourcing/recruiting career? Susan: I would have to say when I first met the recruiter at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. His positive & proactive attitude inspired me greatly and it helped me to refocus and started to explore the "idea" of recruiting full time - back in '98. Six Degrees: Do you have a mentor to whom you attribute your overall outlook on recruitment, capabilities, and/or model your career after? Susan: Yes so far I would have to say my role model has been Polly Price, previously Chief HR Officer at Harvard University. I first connected with her after reading a Harvard Gazette article on Diversity at Harvard. I was quite taken away with her approaches, her immediate attention to personal connection and integrity. I aspire her not for her accomplishments only but her character is remarkable and I truly honor what she has to say (both personally and professionally). I seek out for other mentors as I continue to explore the recruiting industry. I would have to say Kevin Wheeler - interested in his international recruiting outreach & cultural difference information via ERE and sourcing strategists (so many out there however look forward to learning more about Shally Steckerl, and community builders, movers and shakers - I have to say Jason Davis. I am humbled by their leadership, ideas and vision on the industry. Six Degrees: Tell us about your job: Susan: I support my sister Grace's boutique - Pink Olive boutique - for various responsibilities but most importantly value her talent, her ability to expand her passion in unique products, vendor selection and talent development. I will help her out with whatever she needs. That goes 100% as well with my other sister Jenna's ventures in missionary support. Six Degrees: What other companies' recruiting operations do you admire or have heard are best-practice examples? Susan: For sure, Lockheed Strategic Sourcing Team information via Bill Murphy. I look forward to hearing more of their successes. I met Bill Murphy virtually via Jason Davis's Ning site - Recruitingblogs.com. Six Degrees: In what aspects are Lockheed’s Strategic Sourcing Team superior? Susan: Organization, Missions, Practicality & strategic sourcing focused approach. Six Degrees: What recent general news story or industry trend do you feel will have an impact on your work in the future? Why? Susan: I believe Social Media will have a very strong role in changing the recruiting industry as a whole. Also, along with the present state of Economy - very disturbing and yet I do believe there is lot to be done to transformed the world and anticipate a strong impact on recruiting industry near future(will elaborate as I continue to explore). Six Degrees: What is your next career goal? What do you need to do to get there? Susan: My next career goal is to extend myself to the world of sourcing and recruiting in a corporate setting - still exploring at this time. What do I need to do to get there? Well, I will continue to explore options, obtain further training and most importantly network and establishing a personal relationship using various social media tools, gadgets and platforms. I find it extremely helpful, not only valuable but also a great way to build the relationship to get to the next course in my career.…; Added by Dave Mendoza at 2:39am on September 29, 2008

Topic: Meet Dan Nuroo, RBC Activist Down Under, "Say Something Dan!": urne, Australia • Personal Email We continue our series on active, RecruitingBlogs Community members with a spotlight on Dan Nuroo, Recruitment Manager at DWAS. I first had the pleasure of meeting Dan Nuroo at The Austral-Asian Talent Conference in May, 2008 in Sydney. I was on a talent panel and shared a presentation with Kevin Wheeler. Dan was one of the audience members and it has been a thrill to see his involvement as a blogger and activist bear fruit within the RecruitingBLogs.com Community. Dan has been specializing over the past 12 years in the IT Recruitment field. The first 6 within agencies (including his own) and since July 2002 as the Recruitment Manager at DWS an ASX listed national software and solutions, consulting company. His areas of expertise include Management, Sales, ad writing, searching, and strategic recruitment. Q&A with Dan Nuroo Six Degrees: Tell us of your home world. Dan: I’ve been married to Simone (who I met first year Uni) for over 10 years and we have been blessed with 2 gorgeous kids Zachary (now 5) and Talia (now 2), and our loyal Cat Jasper, who has allowed us the honor of looking after him for most of those 10 years, I love my football (Australian Rules Football) and cricket, well any sport really. I was an avid participant in my youth, but seem to have grown out of it! My son, recently caught the footy and cricket bug and I just finished one of the most rewarding winters of my life, by volunteering to Coach the kids at my son’s Auskick Centre, 20 or so 6 year olds or younger. I cannot put into words the amount of joy that gives me. Six Degrees: How many years have you been in the staffing industry? Dan: I started in this game back in 1997. I started as a Recruiter after responding to an Advertisement in the paper (remember them) for an HR Coordinator, I think they took a bit of artistic license with the term. I had grand ambitions of being an HR Generalist or something like that. This role was actually a Resourcer/Data Entry person, or general “GoFer” for the office. My company then won a large tender to get on a PSA with IBM GSA, where I became the core Resourcer for that team. As luck or misfortune would have it, 6 months into this, 5 out of the 6 people in the team left to start up on their own, leaving me holding the baby as it were. After a bit (OK a lot) of in-fighting the client became mine, and I started running the account as a 23/24 year old. This was purely IT Recruiting. I looked after this account for close to 5 years and made some incredible friends whilst doing so, some of my clients here actually came to my wedding! In 2002 I took a risk and moved to a company trying to build itself into an IT Recruitment Company (not the smartest thing I have ever done, as the IT Bubble bursting was still pretty fresh) and after 8 weeks and a redundancy, I set up my own company for a little while. My wife and I had begun discussing starting a family, working for myself I could not look her in the eye or look in the mirror and confidently state what I would earn for the next month. SO I decided to move internally. Luckily enough for me, my targeted search was successful as my timing had been perfect, as the target was looking at the same time I was. I joined DWS Advanced Business Solutions in July 2002 as their first In-house Recruiter. We have been able to grow the company from 110 permanent staff to over 500 now and I have grown the Recruitment team to a team of 4 which operates across the Nation. All the Recruitment for my company comes from my team, we rarely use third parties. Six Degrees: What single event had the most impact on your sourcing/recruiting career? Dan: The whole team leaving me on my own was pretty big, made me grow up and learn to handle stress I had not encountered before. However, discovering sites such as ERE.Net and Recruitingblogs.com changed my professional life. There are other weird people out there like me who love this industry. I felt at home. Also ranking right up there was my attendance at the Australasian Talent Conference in 2008. I had not been to anything like that before (and was quite stunned I got the budget to go!). I got to meet legends I’d read about like, Kevin Wheeler, Shally Streckel, Dave Mendoza (not sucking up because this is his interview) Heather Hamilton and Rob McIntosh to name but a few. Oh I was inspired from this event, I’d never been in such company. Do you have a mentor to whom you attribute your overall outlook on recruitment, capabilities, and/or model your career after? Dan: Not specifically, I have lots of people I lean on or consistently read. My readings from those two sites mentioned above help me question myself, my beliefs and my view of my profession. Six Degrees: Tell us about your position, (responsibilities, size of your staffing organization) : Dan: I am the National Recruitment Manager (part of the National Management Executive) at DWS Advanced Business Solutions, responsible for all the Recruitment which occurs in my company. I have a team of 3 delivering some very demanding results. My jobs is to deal with all the day to day Recruitment issues, educate the executive as to our market and outlook, to placate and deliver to the business the talent they want (hopefully) when they want it, within a Quality Framework. Six Degrees: (A) What other companies' recruiting operations do you admire or have heard are best-practice examples? Dan: I love the creative stuff. I love hearing stories of what corporations have done to attract people. Rob McIntosh gave an example of a company that posted ipods to targeted people, with a message at the start of it as to why they were targeted and why they should join their company. (B) In what aspects are they superior? Dan: Creativity, and more importantly, they actually did it, not just spoke about it. They delivered something Six Degrees: What recent general news story or industry trend do you feel will have an impact on your work in the future? Why? Dan: General outsourcing/off-shoring is taking hold more and more especially in the IT industry. Most Development seems to be heading off shore, which will change the way my company looks and how my focus in Recruitment will change to more analysis and Project Management people. It will be interesting to see how our styles of companies survive these economic times, when there have been a few casualties already, like Satyam. I feel lucky that my company is in a pretty good place financially. Six Degrees: Tell us about your broader involvement within the staffing industry: Dan: I’d love to do more in this arena. I have recently been asked to increase involvement with the Australian Computer Society, presenting to Business Analysts of late as to what I look for when hiring them, and then last week even sitting in on Graduate presentations as a type of Simon Cowell character. I started an Australian Recruiters on ERE.net and am actively involved with the guys at RBC, which started my blogging. Six Degrees: Can you detail how the recession has affected your particular industry niche? Dan: The months between September and April were tough for an internal recruiter here with a team. Trying to keep us relevant and thus employed was a challenge. Especially when we had industry analysts asking my CEO why he still had us. We kept ourselves relevant by getting ALL the recruitment done, with great efficiency (and bragged about our successes) and by secondly looking outside our sphere and becoming the champions of Enterprise 2.0. We found other ways of adding value to our company. And now, the pressure is on from the business again to hire. Thankfully. Managing the perception from the business, candidates and my own sanity tended to keep me busy too. Six Degrees: Aside from simply the generic term “Networking” what specific efforts have you made on your own behalf, or on behalf of colleagues to broaden your opportunities. Dan: In the last 18 months to 2 years I have really upped my involvement in the web2.0 communities. I have actively grown my LinkedIn.com Network, have pushed myself, and my company fairly hard on Twitter and talked my company into building a Facebook.com fan page. I try new things, like a cartoon I built for advertising our roles, the key is to get involved. You actually do get back what you put in. It amazes me as to the amount people share. Six Degrees: Given your own Trial and Error experiences as a Networker, what advice do you have for your peers on what NOT to do? Dan: Firstly, don’t try to sell all the time. Respect your audience and trust in your message and the value people will see in it. Secondly, don’t think the technology will do it all for you. You still have to work a network, people contact is key, face to face or voice to voice are more important than having 4000 friends on facebook. Thirdly, don’t get sucked into trying to use everything that gets put in front of you. Not everything will work. Learn what works for you and dump the rest. Finally, I do not enter and thus cannot win 100 million Euros even if the email looks really authentic., Six Degrees: What is your next career goal? What do you need to do to get there? Dan: I wrote somewhere once I want to be a General in the War for Talent. Still trying to define that now that there seems to be a détente. I’d actually like to help other Recruiters reach their success and believe in the industry and their profession. I feel a lot of disrespect for this industry in the world, which I believe some of its participants (ie recruiters) buy into. I am working on myself so as to be able get that message out there, by constantly crafting and honing my ideas and running them by people I respect and who’s judgeship I trust.…; Added by Dave Mendoza at 7:46pm on August 30, 2009

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