NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network reports overall growth for 2008!

by The Imagination Factory

NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network reports modest growth in placement activity for 2008. Increases were seen in both the number of placements as well as fee revenue shared by NPA members. NPA members participated in 571 placements, a 2% increase over 2007. Fee revenue also increased by 2% to US$10.2 million dollars. “Even with the economic slowdown, employers need to fill their critical roles, and the marketplace still shows signs of a talent shortage in many skilled occupations,” commented NPA president Dave Nerz. Read the rest of this entry »


NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network Announces 2009 Annual Conference

by The Imagination Factory

NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network is hosting its annual conference from March 11-14, 2009 in San Antonio, TX. The conference promotes the benefits of split-fee placements among its members and acts as a networking venue for these independent recruiters and owners of private recruiting firms. The conference is an outstanding opportunity for independent recruiters from around North America and the world to connect, share stories, attend training sessions and, ultimately, enhance their ability to better serve their clients. This year’s conference features trading group meetings, recruitment-specific breakout sessions, and professional recruiting training on topics such as building trust-based relationships, negotiating tactics and demands, managing client resistance, and client-focused searches.

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Dave Nerz Named President of NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network

by The Imagination Factory

The Board of Directors of NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting has promoted Dave Nerz to president. NPA, www.npaworldwide.com, is an international, member-owned network that brings independent recruiting firms together to facilitate cooperative, split-fee placements. As president, Dave is responsible for network operations and oversight, membership growth, and focusing on increased profit for NPA members. Dave joined NPA in 2006 as the executive vice president.

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People Consulting Group Receives Best Employment Service Award from the Korean Ministry of Labor

by The Imagination Factory

December 3, 2008

The Korean Ministry of Labor has named People Consulting Group/Venture People Corp. the 2008 Best Employment Service Authentication Program Award Recipient. People Consulting Group was selected for this honor from among more than 500 executive search firms in Korea. The award means that the firm’s excellence and global level of quality and service is recognized not only within the industry, but also by the government of Korea. The designation is valid for the next three years.

Korea Employment Information Service, under the Ministry of Labor, implemented the Best Employment Service Authentication Program in 2008 in order to promote self-regulating reformation within the private employment service sector to provide a variety of rational options for the public.


NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network appoints city ambassadors

by The Imagination Factory

NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network has appointed a new group of city ambassadors. The city ambassadors serve in a volunteer capacity to improve communications among NPA’s 425+ member recruiting firms. NPA’s city ambassadors will be responsible for holding meetings as well as assisting with membership development and serving as the liaison between NPA’s members and its board of directors. NPA, npaworldwide.com, is a member-owned cooperative of premier independent recruiting firms located throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas.

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Connecting Executives

by The Imagination Factory

Fernando Ortiz-Barbachano leads Mexican executive search firm and made it grow by partnering with a U.S. giant. Now he wants to take on Latin America.

By Garrett Nasworthy – The News

Fernando Ortiz-Barbachano, President of Barbachano International Group, or BIP, has been in the executive search business throughout Latin America since 1992. The firm has worked with over 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies, but until recently focused largely on Mexico.

Starting late last year, the company began pushing further into Latin America, launching in Argentina and Brazil.

He argues that his company connects the best firms to the most appropriate executives and also protects firms when they sack staff by ensuring departing workers find good jobs and remember their former bosses fondly.

What changes are you undertaking right now?

We have moved from a national company, fitted toward Mexico, to a more international company focused further into Latin America.

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Integrity, Honesty and Extreme Nerve are Keys to Success

by The Imagination Factory

by Alexa StillwellOriginally appeared in South Carolina Business, September 2008

The reliability of a steady paycheck and someone else to worry about sales, costs, income statements and taxes was comfortable for Ron Chatham, but once he got a taste of juggling it all serving as founding director of NESA, an economic development nonprofit, he learned a lot about what is required to start and grow a business. Did it take planning, courage and extreme nerve? It took all of these!

Now Chatham is his own boss in the growing Pee Dee hub of Florence, S.C. and president of The Edisto Group, a thriving recruiting and placement firm. In his more than 25 years of human resources and management experience, Chatham has developed an extensive network throughout the entire Southeast business community.

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Go Global or Go Broke!

by The Imagination Factory

Reprinted with permission of Recruiting & Staffing Solutions Magazine, September/October 2008 issue

Recent financial events have me thinking about our globally connected world and the importance of diversification. We have long understood the continued globalization of world economies but it is highlighted when China’s demand for commodities has an impact on Main Street. These signs of change can cause many to retreat to our comfort zones and expect that our world won’t really change. Or we assume, perhaps even hope, that what we do will remain unchanged.

If you haven’t been touched by globalization and the flattened world, you are either in a uniquely localized market or in a niche that is insulated from the global economy. Most recruiting businesses are touched, impacted, maybe even clobbered by the growing worldwide influences on our economy and particularly on the industries we serve. Ask someone in the auto industry.

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NPA and Main Sequence Technologies Announce Technology Partnership

by The Imagination Factory

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 4, 2008

NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network announced that it has entered into agreements with Main Sequence Technologies, one of the nation’s leading recruitment technology providers.Plans call for Main Sequence to fully refactor the NPA SplitZone, the current NPA in-house recruiter-to-recruiter sharing platform, into a new generation of technology for NPA member recruiters.

The result will provide NPA with a solution that will integrate three major technology requirements through one strategic relationship.Once implemented, NPA members will have a fully integrated database platform with PCRecruiter, a position and candidate sharing platform, and a public facing NPA job board.

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NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network elects board of directors

by The Imagination Factory

For Immediate Release

April 25, 2008
The membership of NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network has elected a new group of representatives to its board of directors. The NPA board of directors is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction to the member-owned international recruiting network. Each NPA director owns and operates an independent recruiting firm that is a member of the NPA network. As board members, directors establish NPA’s business plan, identify strategic priorities, develop an annual budget, and oversee network administration.

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