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Major
Accomplishment:Mike is the pioneer and thought leader of on-line
recruiting process. Mike has leveraged his understanding of
the Internet, technology and process and married these components
with a keen understanding of marketing dynamics. To date AIRS
has trained over 30,000 recruitment firms and employers. Clearly,
Mike's work has dramatically impacted the use of the Internet
as a recruitment intelligence and sourcing tool.
About
Michael Foster:
Michael Foster is Chairman and CEO of AIRS, and author of
"Recruiting on the
Web", a new book published by McGraw Hill, due for release
January 2003. AIRS is the global leader in recruitment training,
and a leading provider of
recruitment software tools and media services. Since 1998,
AIRS has trained
over 30,000 recruitment firms and global employers, including
a majority of
Fortune 500 companies. In the process, AIRS terminologies,
including
FlipSearch, PeerSearch, X-ray and others, have entered the
common recruiting
vernacular. AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter (CIR) designation
is
recognized worldwide, and has become a hiring prerequisite
for recruiters in
many organizations.
Today,
AIRS award-winning SearchStation ASP is licensed to over 5,000
recruitment desktops, and is the fastest selling candidate-hunting
application in the market. AIRS Media Services operate airsdirectory.com,
the largest recruitment portal on the Web and AIRS News, which
provides
breaking industry news and information to over 50,000 recruiters
daily.
AIRS
Human Capital Management Solutions also include career transition
services via AIRS CareerPortal (enabling private-label, self-service
corporate outplacement), AIRS Coaching, Job Search Training
and Resume
Distribution tools. In September 2002, AIRS acquired The Lookout,
a
Web-based mentoring platform optimized for leadership development,
merger
integration, diversity and college recruiting.
Mr.
Foster is a specialist in creating, positioning and delivering
technology-leveraged information services. Since 1980, he
has served in a
variety of executive roles in both early stage and Fortune
100 companies,
and has grown and harvested successful companies of his own.
He presently
serves as Chairman of Hanover Capital Management, Inc. and
is a director and
advisor to firms in the financial services, software and information
industries. A native of Los Angeles and San Francisco, Mr.
Foster relocated
with his family to the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont
and founded AIRS
in late 1997.
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