San Diego Recruiters Roundtable, www.sdrecruiters.com , has grown since our last update! With a membership base just shy of 450 HR Professionals and Corporate Recruiters, we continue to be one of the fastest growing HR Networking organizations in San Diego.

Earlier this summer, we announced our new Board of Directors. You can learn more about our BOD at www.sdrecruiters.com/board

As a reminder, SDRR has 3 categories of membership*:

HR Professional: All members of SDRR are included in this category. All SDRR members have access to our main forums for General HR Discussion, Recruiters Forum, HR Networking, and industry specific forums for Biotech/Pharma, High Tech, Healthcare and Financial. All SDRR members also have access to roundtable@sdrecruiters.com listserv.

HR Executive: In addition to the HR Professional membership, members with 10 years or more experience in HR who are currently in a Director, VP or Top HR Executive role may also request access to our HR Executive forum and listserv. Our HR Executive forum is an additional resource where Senior HR Professionals can network and discuss sensitive or executive level topics in a private format. HR Executives will also have a private listserv, hrexecutives@sdrecruiters.com . Special Approval and employment verification is required.

HR Consultant: In addition to the HR Professional membership, members who are currently consultants or contract HR Professionals, charging on an hourly or project basis, may also request access to our HR Consultants forum. Our HR Consultant forum will be an online community of HR Consultants where we can share job leads, set up networking meetings, and discuss consulting specific topics. HR Consultants will also have a private listserv, hrconsultants@sdrecruiters.com . Special Approval and employment verification is required.

*You can check your membership profile on line to determine your category. Members can request to change categories anytime by emailing me at julie@magnuson-consulting.com or their BOD member directly.

San Diego Recruiters Roundtable Board of Directors:

Julie Magnuson, SDRR Chairperson

Brandon Moreno, VP, HR Professional Membership

Lynette Bowman, VP, HR Executive Membership

Mona Melanson, VP, HR Consultant Membership

Erick Magnuson, VP, Technology 

Stay tuned for more exciting updates, including our calendar for upcoming events being planned by our Membership Committees as directed by the respective BOD member.

 We are thrilled to report our first month’s statistics for San Diego Recruiters Roundtable! Our membership has grown to 275 members who are HR Professionals, HR Consultants and Corporate Recruiters within San Diego’s human resource community. The diversity is exciting within our member base, which includes roughly 60 HR Consultants and 60 HR Executives who also have special access forums to discuss and share sensitive information in a private format.

 Our resume database is filling up and now has almost 2000 searchable resumes, and candidates and San Diego job seekers are coming to www.sdrecruiters.com and applying directly to our more than 90 job openings. Members can post jobs either for internal member search only, or elect to post them on our public searchable job site in our Career Center. We track the EEO data as shared by our applicants to help our HR Members encourage diversity recruiting and meet their Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity goals. We will begin reporting EEO data with March data at the end of the month.

  It has been almost 2 weeks since San Diego Recruiters Roundtable has changed its format, and already our membership base has grown to over 200 members! Job seekers are busy uploading their resumes into our Smart Search Applicant Tracking System and our resume database is growing fast. Our members have posted over 50 jobs on our job board. Our vision of bringing San Diego’s employers and job applicants together in conjunction with our other networking tools is already a success. If you haven’t seen our Career Center, be sure and take a look at  http://www.sdrecruiters.com/career.html !

 The email traffic is also starting to pick up again on the listserv, but it is very exciting to see our networking forums begin to get traction. There are some members with interesting questions who are looking for feedback. Hot topics this week have been around cell phone policies, blogging for candidates, and internet resume sourcing tools. Be sure and visit the forums as often as you can so that we can give our colleagues timely responses.

 Stay tuned for more information coming soon on upcoming Networking Events, our drive to fill our Document Library, and a new member referral program! As always, you can email any questions or feedback to Julie Magnuson, whose contact information can be found at http://www.sdrecruiters.com/contact.html