Ryan Stene, a proven recruitment strategist, is the Talent Acquisition Capability Manager with Best Buy . With more than 11 years of recruitment marketing, strategy and technology experience, he has worked with some of the largest brands known today—including Google, eBay, Pfizer, NetApp, Ameriprise Financial and many more. Having the unique ability to leverage both right and left brain capabilities, Ryan develops recruitment media solutions that are both strategically focused and tactically driven. His clients benefit through his abilities to improve metrics, processes, the candidate experience and KPIs. He has helped build the nation’s largest regional recruiting group, Minnesota Recruiters, with more than 5,500 members, striving to give back to the the community—utilizing educational training programs from some of the today’s thought leaders and pioneers.

His career in Recruitment Sales started with Arbita (formally known as RecruitUSA), where he managed the firm’s largest customers as well as their online recruitment strategies—more than $12M in online recruitment spend. Looking to gain enterprise sales experience, He joined Monster Worldwide, where he excelled as a successful sales leader, notably achieving an average of 125%+ quota achievement during his tenure. Demonstrating his ability to be a top performer managing the 26 Fortune 500 Minnesota-based companies—helping them recruit using a wide-variety of cutting edge technology.

Today, Ryan works in the area he feels most passionate about, consulting and helping Best Buy recruit better, smarter and more effectively.