Gary Van Donkersgoed

Technical and IT Talent Specialist with 16+ years experience and using LinkedIn for 9 years.
I have opened new Branch Offices four times and enjoy relationship building in new locations.
I have been a Recruiter Trainer, a Mentor, a Sales Leader and enjoy this ever changing Staffing Industry.
I'm deeply rooted in South and Eastern Ontario, with extensive knowledge of clients and competitors across the region. If you need hard to find IT/Technical talent in the GTA, Niagara Region or points east to Ottawa, I know where to look and whom to call on.
I assist HR Talent Teams on technical training, on how to build healthy recruitment teams, designing and executing on recruitment strategies, performance metrics, tracking and daily coaching techniques. I also provide training on best use of new media, social networking tools, webinars, Web 2.0, browser add-ons, ATS system selection and implementation and how to keep balanced...as the winner is not with the most and best tools...but with the best talent attracted and hired for their company or project.
Client services include marketplace intelligence, contingency based searches that only provides top talent you would only be willing to pay for...that means not active on job boards, but "head hunted" candidates targeted for your specific role. Executive searches conducted on retained basis.

Specialties: Branch Management, Area Director, Recruitment,Building Teams,Software,Interactive,Digital Media,banking,capital markets, wealth,SAP,ERP, Cognos, BI, ETL, IPTV, VoIP, wireless,telecom, Java,J2EE, .NET, programmers, business analysts, project managers,CIO,CEO,CTO and software architects.Semiconductor, ASIC, firmware, DSP Engineers.
Permanent, contract, retained staffing. outsourcing, salary surveys, resume reviews, immigration, relocation, TN visas, H1B visas, technical assessment, trends,1099