The following experts will be presenting at the Campus Recruiting Forum in 2010.

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Graham Donald
President
Brainstorm Consulting

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 Consulting in 2003.  

Through Brainstorm Consulting, 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. 
 

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Richard Bottner
Founder & President
Intern Bridge Inc.

Richard Bottner is The Internship Advocate and the founder of Intern Bridge, the nation’s leading college recruiting consulting and research firm. He is the founder and lead researcher of the National Internship and Co-op Study, an annual college recruiting best practices survey that has been completed by over 100,000 students nationwide since its inception. He has also run a college recruiting best practices program since 2005.

Richard has published four internship books and produced a DVD designed to help employers and universities build stronger internship programs. He has also published two resources specifically intended to help students attain success in their internship and job search. He has been a guest columnist for Forbes and a featured blogger for Brazen Careerist.

Richard has spoken at the National Association of Colleges and Employers, Eastern Association of College and Employers and Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges and Employers. He has also been a keynote speaker and panelist for several public policy events.

Richard is a member of the Human Capital Institute’s College Advisory Panel, a board member of New England Association for Cooperative Education and Field Experience, and of the College Relations Committee of Northeast Human Resources Association. Richard has been named to Business Week’s list of the Top 25 U.S. Entrepreneurs Under 25.

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Phil Gardner
Director
Collegiate Employment Research Institute

Dr. Gardner was raised in the intermountain west, outside Spokane, Washington, and attended Whitman College, majoring in Chemistry with a strong interest in History and Literature.

Before attending graduate school, he served in the army in Southeast Asia and Japan. In graduate school, his studies focused on developmental and resource economics, organizational development and public policy. He served for 18 months with Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture’s Land Reform Office.

After six years on the faculty at the University of California, Riverside (Graduate School of Administration and Crop and Soil Science), he returned to Michigan State University to lead the research efforts for the Collegiate Employment Research Institute.

His research interests include:

• Transition from college to work and early workplace socialization.
• Student engagement, learning and competency development.
• Labor market dynamics for college educated employees, especially early career developmen
• Impact of the first and second year of college on commitment to learning.

Among his teaching assignments, he works with sophomores in a seminar on career and academic decision-making; effectually referred to "Why Am I here!"  In addition to membership in various professional organizations, he serves as senior editor for The Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships.

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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.

 

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David Howard
Global Digital Strategist
TMP Worldwide

David brings 14 years of digital recruitment communications experience at TMP Worldwide to the Campus Recruiting Forum’s table. Innovating and optimizing career websites, and driving cost effective, quality applicants from the digital space is his forte.

David set up the digital division of TMP Asia Pacific at the turn of the millennium. Transferred to the UK working in sales, marketing and strategy for 2 years.  Arriving in the USA in 2003 to work on the world’s finest online recruitment challenges, initially in New York, now in Chicago, aka the mighty Midwest! F500 clients have included Campbell’s, Deloitte, Xerox, Dell, and P&G.

David has also gained much wisdom on sourcing techniques from consultation with 6 of the 10 US top staffing firms ranked by Staffing Industry Analysts.

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John Flato
President
Campus Strategic Partners

John Flato is the President of Campus Strategic Partners, and Vice President of Vault.com’s Research and Consulting arm.  In this role, he advises their 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 first consulting firm, EliteGraduateJobs, which focused on campus recruiting and relations, was acquired by Vault in 2008.

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