Matt Alder
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Matt Alder is the founder of MetaShift, a strategic consultancy which works at the cutting edge of the Recruitment and HR industries. If you want to find out more please visit Matt’s LinkedIn Profile, follow him on Twitter or alternatively you can contact him on matt@metashift.co.uk. Matt also blogs at the Digital Recruiting community blog and you can view all of his social media feeds at www.friendfeed.com/mattalder
Longer Bio
Matt Alder is the founder of strategic consultancy MetaShift and has spent the last twelve years working within the Internet space. He became involved in online recruitment eleven years ago, spending seven years as Head of Interactive Media with TMP Worldwide followed by four years as Head of Digital at Penna Barkers.
During this time Matt has worked on digital recruitment and brand strategy for numerous clients across both the private and public sectors. He has lead teams that have devised some of the Europe’s biggest and most complex digital recruitment campaigns and helped pioneer the use of tracking tools for digital recruitment marketing in the UK.
Matt is passionate about innovation and has a strong interest in how the digital revolution is changing the way companies communicate. He has written and spoken extensively on the future of recruitment and is a highly respected blogger with an international audience. Matt is also an enthusiastic social media experimenter and a regular commentator on all aspects of the emerging field of “social recruiting”. He recently became the first person outside of North America to be named by John Sumser and Recruitingblogs.com as one of their global top 100 recruitment and HR influencers.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
[...] shared her thoughts here in a vlog entry. Another member of the jet set attendee base, Matt Alder who came over from the UK shared his thoughts here. One of our session leader Chris Hoyt, aka The [...]
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
[...] what is being said but you can respond positively. Thanks to Paul @Carveconsulting & of course @Mattalder (The Addler) for this [...]
December 14th, 2009 at 4:41 am
[...] 3: Matt Alder [...]
February 16th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
[...] Matt Alder (of MetaShift) made a strong case on the future value of Twitter as a Job Board. Part of his convictions are from results he is getting on behalf of one of his clients, and his observations with other corporate employers feeding their jobs into Twitter. His post attracted some reactions, as well as commentaries here and here. [...]
February 16th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
[...] Matt Alder (of MetaShift) made a strong case on the future value of Twitter as a Job Board. [...]
April 7th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
[...] Recruiting Futurology – Matt Alder [...]
September 15th, 2010 at 6:53 am
[...] Matt Alder, a social recruiting expert and founder of MetaShift says: “Most recruitment has always been done by word of mouth and referrals. Social media is proving to be such an effective way for people to find jobs because it is amplifying people’s ability to hear about job opening from the extended networks social media is providing for them.” [...]
October 13th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
[...] I’ve been interviewed by Matt Alder on his new site, Social Future: “Social Future is blog the looks at the way companies communicate [...]
November 7th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
[...] I’ve been interviewed by Matt Alder on his new site, Social Future: “Social Future is blog the looks at the way companies communicate [...]
November 13th, 2010 at 2:07 am
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February 24th, 2011 at 5:00 am
[...] to be good. The best way to describe what I sensed at that moment was candid accountability. Matt Alder gave us an overview of the Employment Branding evolution through his personal experience. It was [...]
March 7th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
[...] was somehow able to draw the likes of Matt Alder, Felix Wetzel, China Gorman, Kevin Wheeler, John Sumser, Michael Long, Sarah White, Andy [...]
December 20th, 2011 at 5:52 am
[...] Alder of Recruiting Future said: Arguably every business is a social business because every business has people in it; and [...]