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Arbita Team
- Don Ramer / CEO & Founder
- Shally Steckerl / Executive Vice President
- Margaret Klis, Vice President and Corporate Controller
Don Ramer / CEO & Founder
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Don Ramer has been a visionary and leader in the world of recruitment for over three decades. From beginning his career in executive search in 1974 to most recently founding Arbita, the forward-thinking provider of recruitment marketing solutions, Don has been at the leading edge of developing tools that empower companies and candidates with shared values to find one another.
In his first six years in the industry, Don worked in contingency and retainer environments as assistant to the presidents of two AESC-registered firms.
In 1980, seeing a niche to be mined and being entrepreneurial in nature, he formed The Ramer Group, a recruiting firm that specialized in placing data-security executives with major New York financial institutions.
Six years later, seeing recruiting evolving with the growth of the Internet and online media, Don created the Recruitment Research Institute. Serving as the Institute’s executive director and under its auspices, he launched The Alternative Employment Marketplace, a newsletter for the human resources community, and delivered seminars across the United States that focused on tapping into the “alternative employment marketplace” to improve recruiting quality and cut its costs. Much of the Institute’s research was later published and distributed by the U.S. Bureau of National Affairs.
In 1988, Don launched the Employment Management Group (EMG). This high-level management consultancy focused on very large employers and change management in their recruiting and selection processes. In addition to conducting intensive and insightful assessments of recruitment and selection effectiveness, EMG planned, organized and managed recruitment and selection strategy, tactics and operations for clients in the telecommunications and enterprise software industries.
In August of 1993, Don again showed his keen insight into the worlds of both recruiting and new technologies when he began working with the America Online Career Center to accelerate its sales of online recruitment advertising products. Driven by a vision of the natural relationship between proactive recruiting and the rapidly emerging universe of online job boards, Don created the concept of a central marketplace that streamlined how human resource professionals connect to multiple sources and vendors. Arbita was born from that concept.
Three years later, as a sister company to Arbita and built on that organization’s abiding belief in the transformational potential of inspired recruiting, Don and his partners launched RecruitUSA. Through partnerships and knowledge management, RecruitUSA has helped several of the world’s premier employers define their online recruiting methods and presence.
Shally Steckerl / Executive Vice President
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Shally Steckerl is a talent acquisition consultant, strategist, and speaker originally from Colombia, South America, now residing in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Steckerl is the Founder and Chief CyberSleuth of JobMachine, Inc. (jobmachine.net), the premier provider of sourcing consulting services and workforce development. Early in his career Mr. Steckerl realized that as a contingency recruiter he could beat the competition by finding people who were not available in mainstream sources. Since then he has been instrumental in building numerous world class sourcing and research organizations.
Because of his passion for the Internet as a recruitment tool and his continually innovative methods, Mr. Steckerl has developed a reputation as one of the most respected authorities in passive candidate research and talent pipeline development worldwide. A pioneer in recruitment Internet research, accomplished author and celebrated speaker, he is a regular contributor to many industry publications. Mr. Steckerl is frequently requested to present at leading domestic and international recruiting conferences and conduct private workshops.
Mr. Steckerl now spends his time consulting with organization interested in building passive candidate pipeline generation and recruitment teams, and developing their advanced sourcing skills.
Margaret Klis / Vice President and Corporate Controller
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Margaret Klis, Vice President and Corporate Controller is a CPA with twenty plus years experience working with small and large businesses in a variety of industries. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in accounting. Margaretʼs goal is to maintain fiscal responsibility, efficient processes and financial controls within an environment of creativity and client focus.
