Carmen Hudson wears several hats. She is currently Principal Consultant, Sourcing and Social Media Strategy for Recruiting Toolbox, Founder and CEO of Tweetajob, Inc. and co-founder of a national conference for tech recruiters, Talent42. Carmen draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on helping organizations attract, source and recruit top talent. Strategic Sourcing Depth Carmen’s expertise is in helping clients build the right sourcing and recruiting strategies, and implementing them in the real world of limited budgets, competing priorities, and highly competitive recruiting environments. She consults and trains companies to help them leverage high ROI solutions for big sourcing, social media, and technology implementation initiatives. Carmen is a self-described “recruiting geek” who has spent years learning, creating, and sharing best practices around recruiting and sourcing. Her corporate experience includes Yahoo!, where she was Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition. At Yahoo! she led the strategic sourcing team, revitalizing the employee referral program and Yahoo’s employer brand. The team was awarded a coveted Yahoo! Superstar Award, an ERE Excellence award and advertising industry awards. Prior to joining Yahoo!, she was manager, Global Strategic Sourcing for Starbucks Coffee Corporation, where she developed sourcing strategies and recommended resources and tactics to support U.S. retail management hiring. She has also held senior talent acquisition roles at Microsoft, Amazon.com and Capital One. Carmen is a regular contributor to recruiting industry publications, including ERE Exchange and Recruiting Trends. She is a frequent speaker at recruiting events, including the Social Recruiting Summit, Kennedy Online Recruiting Conference and the Seattle Staffing Management Assn. True to her passion, she blogs and tweets about the recruiting industry, social media, job search and recruiting technology.

Co-Founder @ National conference for tech recruiters. From November 2011 to Present (4 years 2 months) Principal Consultant @ Carmen will draw on over 15 years of recruiting experience to help Recruiting Toolbox clients identify and implement effective candidate sourcing, engagement, and social media strategies and training. Carmen has led key sourcing and technology/media initiatives and teams for companies like Yahoo, Amazon.com, and Starbucks, and brings a real-world, practitioner focus to helping clients. From February 2011 to Present (4 years 11 months) CEO and Founder @ The cat's out of the bag! Tweet your job opportunities to targeted jobseekers. From July 2009 to Present (6 years 6 months) Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition @ Developed highly successful programs to support organization in tumultuous recruiting environment. Worked with senior-most corporate marketing leaders to reposition employer brand; developed innovative employee referral campaign that resulted in 300% improvement in referral submissions and hires. Negotiated sourcing vendor contracts; currently leading the global Explored social media strategies, including targeted network development, open social networking strategies, microblogging and search engine widget development. Team won the coveted “Superstar” award, awarded by CEO for outstanding integrated branding campaign. From July 2007 to July 2009 (2 years 1 month) manager, Global Strategic Sourcing @ Responsible for leading the team that develops strategic sourcing strategies for Starbuck's retail, non-retail and international business units. From October 2006 to May 2007 (8 months) manager, Enterprise Recruiting @ From October 2004 to October 2006 (2 years 1 month) Senior Recruiter @ From April 2003 to October 2004 (1 year 7 months) Senior Recruiting Manager @ From March 2000 to March 2003 (3 years 1 month) Researcher @ From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Marketing Coordinator @ From 1996 to 1998 (2 years)

B.S., Journalism @ Northwestern University Carmen CSM is skilled in: Sourcing, Social Networking, Entrepreneurship, Employee Referral Programs, Technical Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Hiring, Full-cycle Recruiting, Applicant Tracking Systems, Workforce Planning, Search, Talent Management, Onboarding, Internet Recruiting, Interviewing