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Unsung Hero Sings

(Jan.30, 2009) Amitai Givertz, Mr. Recruitomatic, works tirelessly to aerate the featured content on RBC. Ami, as he is known to his friends, compiles the daily feature articles and his exhaustive "best of the week" collections. His blog here on RBC is an inventory of the great posts that top the site each day.

Ami is widely known for content density (he's really smart), link mania (his stuff is heavily annotated with really useful pointers). a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor (bless Mother for that), limitless intensity (at last count, seven observable blogs), passion and dogged persistence. He has been in and around the recruiting industry since before the first sailor was shanghaied. He recently won the Recruiting Animal's 2008 award for Recruitosphere Excellence. It sits on his trophy shelf alongside his Mikey’s Monkey Award from 2006.

These days, Ami is turning the world upside down with his humbly named Brown Bag Recruiter program. The innocuously titled webinars are the gateway to Recruiting mastery. Like a bottle of Absinthe, the seminars are deliciously mind expanding. Ami has discovered an enormous cache of riches and is busily trying to give them away to any recruiter who wants them.

Ami's webinars show you how to crack the code. Using Google accounts and Google toolkits, the programs teach recruiters to construct astonishingly rich and complex resume databases. Rather than focusing on hitting a home run like some search seminars, Ami teaches the virtue of looking ahead. Building an arsenal of data that can be reused and renewed is the ultimate object of the class.

Here's the upcoming schedule. You'll be glad you made the investment. Each webinar is $45 and lasts a generous hour. The entire series price is $95

Wednesday, February 4, 2pm EST G-Recruiting: A 60-minute Digest (Register)
Tuesday, February 10 2PM EST Search Engine Secrets, Part 1: Customized Candidate Search (Register)
Wednesday, February 11 2PM EST Search Engine Secrets, Part 2: Vertical Search and Sourcing to Profile (Register)
Thursday, February 12 2pm ESTSearch Engine Secrets, Part 3: Purposeful Sourcing to Drive Meaning... (Register)
Tuesday, February 17 2pm EST Search Engine Secrets: A 60-minute Digest (Register)
Thursday, February 19 2pm EST Search Engine Secrets: A 60-minute Digest (Register)

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Permalink Reply by John Sumser on February 1, 2009 at 1:12am: It's gratifying to see everyone turning out for Ami.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Marlatt on February 2, 2009 at 9:31am: Unsung hero is absolutely correct. Ami has been a great friend, mentor, and personal coach to me. Anyone who knows him will agree that he's incredibly articulate and a deep-thinker with a passion for lively discussion. I have met a lot of recruiting professionals in my time but Ami is just one of those individuals that stands out above the crowd. I have personally learned more from Ami than I could ever give back in return. If you haven't yet had the opportunity to meet or chat with Ami, I would encourage you to do so. He's an open-networker and always open for discussion.

As John mentions, Ami is doing some fantastic things around leveraging Google applications as a "one-stop-shop" (free) recruiting desktop that has yet to be matched by anyone in the industry. Impressive stuff... check it out.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Shawna Armstrong on February 2, 2009 at 12:58pm: John's posting is not an understatement. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend Ami's G-Recruiting Digest and am eagerly looking forward to the 3 follow up sessions. Ami has uncovered an extremely advanced and powerful combination of secrets and has effectively found a way to leverage what's out there for free to creatively supercharge a recruiter's toolkit. His friendliness, modesty and generosity to share his genius, make him a pleasure to learn from and an unparalleled asset to this field!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Doug Bryant on February 6, 2009 at 3:57pm: Ami is no pretender. His tools work and his advice is absolutely on point. I have now attended 2 G-Recruiting Webinars and was so impressed that I asked Ami to spend some dedicated time with my fellow recruiters.

I am most blown away by how generous Ami is with his time and (obviously hard won) knowledge. Well worth the time.

"Content Density" indeed!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Frank R Speer on February 24, 2009 at 10:35am: I have had the privilege of working with Ami and can testify to his intelligience, "British charm", wit, and his passion for our industry. I have seen him perform both on the phone with his webinars and in person training corporate recruiters in the fundamentals of sourcing.

I highly recommend his Brown Bag Recruiter webinars. If you want to be intellectually challenged in the recruiting space seek him out.; ▶ Reply to This