Mike Temkin

Vice President, Strategic Planning and Development

Subject/Area of expertise:

  • Beyond the Passive Job Seeker – Recruiting the Elusive, Impulsive “A” Candidate
  • Recognizing Your Top Employees and Creating Recruitment Ambassadors
  • How Community Outreach Can Demonstrate Your Employment Brand In A Tangible Manner and Enhance Your Ability to Influence, Engage and Recruit
  • Promote Your Employment Brand and Create Applicant Flow With Newly Emerging Media
  • Using the Interactive Power of Media Convergence to Recruit, Retain, Refer and Train.
  • Taking Static to Dramatic: The Expanding Use of Online and Offline Video for Recruitment

Mike has brought the philosophy and strategies of product and business-to-business advertising to the recruitment advertising arena. Before joining Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications in 1988, Mike spent 16 years working with consumer and industrial clients on print, out-of-home, broadcast and special event campaigns for products and services. 

An active member of an SHRM Chapter in DuPage County, Illinois (HRA of Greater Oak Brook), Mike served as Vice President–Programming. Mike has also been invited to speak at national and international meetings for media and HR associations in regard to expanding the use of new media options for the purpose of employment advertising and talent acquisition. He traveled to Stockholm last year to speak about new media/advertising/marketing techniques at an International Employer Branding Conference and recently spoke at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois on the use of Social Media to support Employer Branding.

Mike has been quoted on recruitment advertising techniques in The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek and has been published as a guest writer in the HR Florida Review and Universum Quarterly on how of new media technology can enhance the effectiveness of traditional HR techniques.

Mike is a contributor to the Shaker Blog (http://shakerrecruitment.ning.com), where his entries focus on “Competing for Talent.”