George Blomgren

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As the Recruiting Manager at Kinsa Group, I lead a team of seasoned recruiters who…

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  • National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin Graphic

    Board of Directors

    National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin

    - 5 years 2 months

    Health

    I served on the Board of Directors, and supported NKFWI's use of technology and social media.

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    Junior Achievement

    - 2 years 11 months

    Children

    Classroom teaching (career focused)

  • Co-chair: Talent Attraction Committee

    Milwaukee 7

    - 3 years 1 month

    Economic Empowerment

    Leveraging my experience as Director of Culture Strategy at The Good Jobs, I was part of M7’s Talent Advisory Council, and was co-chair of the Talent Attraction Committee. It was an honor & an exciting opportunity to address talent attraction on a regional basis!

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  • Presentation: Big Data, Recruiting & Predictive Analytics

    Big data, of course, is the latest buzz in the world of recruiting -- and many other disciplines. Companies like Google measure everything and use sophisticated analytics to refine their recruiting and hiring processes. But there’s a lot of hype as well. This presentation explores where the hype ends and the business value begins, especially for smaller employers, and employers who aren’t sitting on huge data repositories.

  • Presentation: Social Recruiting -- Putting The Social Back In Recruiting

    This built on my earlier social media presentation by helping MRA members understand how to turn employees and candidates themselves into proxy recruiters and tapping into their social networks. In addition to covering the "how tos," I shared the 4 conditions essential to success: 1) the size of your social networks, 2) the online face of your employer brand, 3) rethinking the idea of passive talent, and 4) delivering great candidate experience.

  • Presentation: Social Media Policy That Supports Business

    I developed his presentation for MRA members because the only other speakers presenting this topic in 2009 were attorneys who were all about mitigating the risks rather than leveraging the benefits. While it included advice about specific risks and how to address them, the primary focus of the presentation was social media policies and processes that turned employees into powerful, positive brand ambassadors. Over the years, I delivered this presentation dozens of times, to thousands of…

    I developed his presentation for MRA members because the only other speakers presenting this topic in 2009 were attorneys who were all about mitigating the risks rather than leveraging the benefits. While it included advice about specific risks and how to address them, the primary focus of the presentation was social media policies and processes that turned employees into powerful, positive brand ambassadors. Over the years, I delivered this presentation dozens of times, to thousands of business & HR professionals.

  • Podcast: Zen & The Art Of Recruiting

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    Working with Todd Nilson and a variety of luminary guests in the talent acquisition space, we developed and recorded dozens of episodes of this podcast, which was nationally syndicated through The Local Job Network.

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