Below are descriptions of presenters who spoke at the Campus Recruiting Forum in San Francisco:

Details for presenters of the Chicago Campus Recruiting Forum will be available shortly.

Graham Donald

Graham Donald

President
Brainstorm Strategy Group, Inc.
Graham Donald is Canada’s leading expert on campus recruiting and career services management.

Over the past 20 years he has advised dozens of the country’s major employers and developed a national network of university and college clients. In the past several years he has worked with numerous US employers and colleges as well.

As a co-author of the annual From Learning to Work Report, Canada’s benchmark study of student attitudes towards careers and employers, he has developed a unique understanding of tomorrow’s workforce. He uses this expertise and his extensive experience in the campus recruitment marketplace to advise major employers when developing programs to attract, recruit, retain, and manage new student hires.

His primary role as a consultant with career centres and other student services is to facilitate the strategic planning process or external reviews to help support student engagement and success.

He was Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE) for seven years. In 1996, he conceived and launched Campus WorkLink, which quickly became Canada’s largest job posting site for students and graduates. Campus WorkLink was sold to Workopolis.com in 2001 where he worked as part of the senior management team until starting Brainstorm Strategy Group, Inc. in 2003.

Through Brainstorm Strategy Group, Inc., he has developed a series of Campus Recruiting Forums in cities across North America for employers of post-secondary students and graduates. He also created The Canadian Institute for Career Centre Management – a management training program for campus career centre directors – and the Career Services Summit for leaders of campus career centres. More recently, he launched the Strategic Enrolment Marketing & Management Forum (SEMM Forum).

Earlier in his career, he was owner and president of Turl Street Publications Ltd.; a founding director of the Career Edge National Internship Program; and a founder, past president, and life member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Canada. He is also a former owner and director of a children’s canoe tripping camp, Camp Temagami. He received both his BA and MBA from the University of Toronto.

John Flato

John Flato

Vice-President, Consulting
Universum

John Flato is the Vice President of Consulting at Universum. In this role, he and his team advise their partner clients on the design, implementation and improvement of their campus recruiting and relations efforts.

John has directed the campus recruiting programs at AlliedSignal (now Honeywell), CIGNA, and Ernst & Young/Capgemini. He has won numerous awards from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and the Employment Management Association for creative recruiting materials, technical innovation, and educational programming. He has also served as the Director of Career Management at Georgetown University’s MBA School. He has lectured and been published in two books and in the media on a variety of campus recruiting issues. His consulting firm, Campus Strategic Partners, which focused on campus recruiting and relations, was acquired by Universum in 2011.

Phil Gardner

Phil Gardner

Director
Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI)
Michigan State University

Philip D. Gardner is Director of Research for the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. Dr. Gardner has been with MSU for 25 years after receiving degrees from Whitman College (BA in Chemistry) and Michigan State University (Ph.D. in Economics/Public Policy). His major areas of research include the transition from college to work, early socialization and career progression in the workplace, workforce readiness, and other areas related to college student studies. MSU’s nationally recognized annual college labor market study is done under his direction each fall. He is currently editor of the Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships. In the spring of 2009 he served as a Fulbright specialist to New Zealand on work-integrated learning.

Sabine Gillert

Sabine Gillert

VP, Global Client Development
TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, LLC

Sabine brings more than eleven years of experience in the recruitment advertising industry to her role as VP, Global Client Development at TMP Worldwide. Originally from Germany and raised and educated in South Africa, Sabine has an innate understanding of global hiring issues and needs.

As part of TMP Worldwide’s global brand consultancy, Sabine partners with clients to help them in attracting, engaging and retaining top talent in their organizations. She utilizes her analytical skills to synthesize multiple perspectives (client – employee – candidate) and ultimately help her clients realize unique employer brands. Her experience in this group ranges from research design to employer brand workshops, focus group moderation, EVP development, brand strategy development, message guidelines, brand ambassador training, process optimization and more.

She has worked with clients in industries ranging from healthcare to technology to entertainment, including ESPN, Microsoft, Teva, Ontario Power Authority, Catholic Healthcare West, Apple Inc, Hewlett Packard, Wells Fargo, eBay and many more.

When she’s not solving global client challenges, Sabine can be spotted running the trails Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Steven Rothberg

Steven Rothberg

President and Founder
CollegeRecruiter.com

Steven Rothberg is the President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry-level jobs and other career opportunities.

Mary Scott

Mary Scott

President
Scott Resource Group

Mary Scott is president of Scott Resource Group, an independent university relations and recruitment consulting firm based in West Hartford, Connecticut. Her professional services include client-specific primary research, student surveys, focus groups, best practices benchmarking studies and retention analysis. She is also a managing partner of IronHorse Surveys LLC, a provider of Web-based recruitment process assessment tools, including the recently-launched IronHorse Index™. Prior to founding her private practice in 1988, Mary was Director of Staffing at Aetna. She began her recruitment career in college admissions at Saint Joseph College, where she earned her undergraduate degree, and she holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut.

Details for presenters of the Chicago Campus Recruiting Forum will be available shortly.