Written by Jim Cannon, June 05, 2007 at 07:35 AM

Ami,

Thanks for the very thorough and interactive presentation on Friday. It opened many areas for needed improvement and study and showed the obvious need for further micro sessions.

Again...thanks for your hard work it was very much appreciated!

Written by Jay Walter, June 05, 2007 at 03:45 PM

From my point of view, this training session was an ingenious and a refreshing approach. The trainer had my complete and undivided attention mostly due in part to the stimulating information he conveyed, and way he stimulated the class. I had intended to make my comments less stroking, but in truth the quality of this training warrants praise. This is a tremendous tool for any and all businesses, a new outlook for me, another way to make recruiting rewarding.Bravo

Written by jodi fannin, June 06, 2007 at 02:28 PM

I really enjoyed the training. I found it to be very informative. I learned a lot and will look forwrad to ongoing classes!
thnak you

Written by Michael Teakell, August 10, 2007 at 08:49 AM

Mr. Amitai Givertz recently facilitated a Streamline Recruiting Training session for Superior Energy Services. Like most training sessions, a tremindous amount of material was covered in a short period of time, but Amitai made the classes enjoyable and I left with practical ideas that will hopefully bring about recruiting solutions for Superior.

One suggestion I would make to any facilitator conducting this class would be to have a clearly defined internet selection example. Not that the position will necessarily be one that the client is actively looking to fill, but it will provide the methodology and step-by-step process using the tools addressed in the class and how they tie together. I realize you can't go to every web site that someone might use, but you can show that you may want to start with a "social network" then move on to a specific "blogg" site etc. until ultimately you get to the result of potential resumes/contacts for the available position.

Amitai is a very good facilitator and he left me thinking about how I can apply what he taught over the course of two days. I would recommend this class to others.

This is in no way meant to be a criticism of Amitai. It is just that I am more an analytical person and I prefer a step-by-step process. It would also be helpful for those individuals who are not comfortable searching the web, because I am one of them. I get frustrated easily with web searches. Once I am comfortable with the process, it becomes much easier to move back and forth between different web sites to achieve the desired results.

Written by Amitai Givertz, August 13, 2007 at 08:22 AM

Michael, thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate it!

To your suggestion about having out-of-the-box sourcing examples I have been trying to weigh up the pros and cons of doing that.

On the one hand I think the sourcing examples should illustrate actual positions being referenced in the training while on the other using something more generic to illustrate the process makes sense too. If time allowed I should probably do both. For sure, there aren't a lot of 200 ton boat lift captains or mobile home toter drivers to do a quick illustration of how to use social networks and blogs for sourcing! I guess when you work without a safety net, falling off the trapeze never looks pretty

All that said, as we discussed, STREAMline is as much about problem solving through trial and error/intuitive reasoning as it is about smoothly executing an advanced boolean search, even though with practice the positions we were talking about become easier to source online. I know it must have been like watching paint dry but sometimes internet sourcing is as much about improvising with what you've got as it is about doing it with the same panache as when the process is rehearsed through sourcing the same jobs/job families over time.

Michael, thanks for your active participation in our two days of training. I am looking forward to working with you again, and soon I hope.