Jeff Hunter of Electronic Arts presented the work that we are doing at Electronic Arts for their global talent acquisition program...and then some.
Its all being built on the Salesforce.com platform and what started out as just a recruiting design project, turned into something called Total Workforce Management (TWM). Global recruiting, university recruiting, internal advancement, vendor qualification/acquisition, contractor approval, etc. Pretty neat stuff.
I've built workforce process/applications that are in still in use by giants like Adobe,Oracle, Yahoo, Seagate and Microsoft today. Nothing comes close to this..but that's just my opinion.
Some of you may already know that I'm a big believer that ATS systems are the wrong way to go and that, as far as recruiting/talent acquisition/talent management go, that the CRM model is what recruiting should be working on.
In my opinion, Salesforce.com puts out the best CRM "application" out there because it really is not an application. Its a platform to build on. Yes, it comes packaged with CRM..but there is so much more. Oh...so much more.
Anyways, I was just at the event that Salesforce puts on called Dreamforce. Very nice...
They are coming out with all different types of enhancements set for November and then a follow up release in the Winter. I've been back for a couple days and have already started designing accordingly. So...needless to say...I'm very excited.
Below is brief video of my trip. Forgive me if it looks "amateur"...because I am one. :)
Keeping in the spirit of Richard Florida and his Creative Class, two recent reports have come out that have peaked my interest. Since I live in California, I'm a little concerned with the lack of presence that California (the whole west coast for that matter) has on either of these lists.
There are people I come across that I would like to buy stock in, IF I could. Together, it's a pretty good portfolio. These are some people I'm buying stock in right now....
Russell Glass
Ryan Money
Dan Hilbert
Jeff Hunter
Gerry Crispin
Richard Florida