Featuring Panelists from Grindr, Boon Roth Staffing.

On December 14th at 7pm, let's get together, network and learn from recruiting and HR professionals at LA's leading companies. We'll be talking about all the amazing new technologies available in recruitment and how everyday people can leverage this information to land a job. A few topics we'll be covering.





For recruiters:

Recruiting tools

Referral improvements

LinkedIn techniques

Sourcing options

Job boards

Marketing for the future

Attracting candidates





For job seekers:

Resume Building

Application Strategy

Interviewing

Startups vs. Corporations

Do's and Dont's

Jobs growing in demand

Career change









Our Featured Panelists Include:





Jamie Bond

Head Of Talent Acquisition at Grindr

Jamie is the Head of Talent Acquisition at Grindr. Efficiency, humanity and collaboration are the cornerstones of her recruiting brand. Jamie has experience in supporting a variety of departmental hiring strategies including; Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Software Development and Product. Jamie began her career in hospitality and sales, building a foundation based on service and experience. Since moving to LA 10 years ago, Jamie has worked in Entertainment, Staffing and Technology. Prior to joining Grindr, Jamie was the Manager of Talent Acquisition & HR at Cargomatic in Venice Beach. As employee #11, she joined the team pre Series A and grew the team to just over 100 employees.









The world's largest gay social network. We are all software craftsmen at heart and engineering excellence is at the focal point of everything we do at Grindr. We are an agile shop and we use pair programming together with behavior-driven development (BDD) principles to build amazing things. No line of code is ever written by just one developer and we have over 90% of test code coverage. Our users today have a choice of iOS and Android native clients powered by Grindr 3.0 back-end utilizing non-blocking I/O Akka and Scala framework. We build our business components using Java programming language and we use Zookeper to configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk clusters running Grindr. Our infrastructure depends on heavy usage of advanced cloud computing and caching techniques to scale massively around the world. We support over 1MM active hourly users pushing 10K API calls per second sending over 135MM chat messages per day. We use Redis, Elastisearch, AMQP RabbitMQ, Amazon RDS and DynamoDB, as well as, Erlang based MongooseIM to power our apps.













Dakota Younger

CEO at Boon Co.

Hailing from Alaska, Dakota Younger is a passionate technophile, ex-standup comedian, and a recruiting expert with over a decade of experience. After starting two successful recruiting firms, Dakota Younger set out to solve many of the inefficiencies in the industry through novel design and technology. He is now the founder & CEO of a powerful referral recruiting technology called Boon.



Today the $450 billion recruiting industry is comprised of job boards, recruiters and an endless gamut of tools.Boon disrupts this model entirely. Using our proprietary matching algorithm, Boon gives anyone the capabilities of a seasoned recruiter and gets them paid for doing it. Not only that, Boon saves companies thousands through a vastly improved hiring process. We have just launched from our beta, already have thousands of active users, and looking for new funding to scale effectively.



DJ Cabeen Business Solutions Manager at Roth Staffing Roth Staffing Companies provide temporary, temporary-to-hire, direct hire, executive search and strategic account programs (On-Premise, MSP, VMS, 1099, Payrolling) to thousands of customers nationwide in a wide-range of industries





Details

This event is hosted a CTRL COLLECTIVE, a premier collaborative workspace in Playa Vista. (FREE PARKING) Please have a printed or mobile version of your ticket ready at the entrance. We'll be meeting in the large event space toward the back of the building. Some food and drink will be provided to guests.





Tune in from anywhere

If you're out of state or just running late, you can tune in via live stream. The live streaming details are sent minutes before the event goes live.





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