Smart Recruiting is more than being good recruiter, it’s about being consistently ahead of the pack and choosing the right tools to win!

SharkStrike LLC, the world’s leading passive candidate strategy company, and its patent-pending Push Posting human resources search engine marketing product, helps companies strengthen their passive candidate capture strategy.

SharkStrike’s S^4™ passive candidate offering encompasses recruitment search engine marketing (SEM), recruitment search engine optimization (HR-SEO) social media/social networking recruiting and open web candidate sourcing.  By utilizing a combination of these smart recruiting techniques, employers lower their cost per applicant and cost per hire, enhance their employer proposition and increase brand value. These technologies also allow passive candidates to opt-in to company message/job postings, facilitating the company’s process of engaging and successfully communicating with passive candidates.

Leadership:

Jason S. Gorham

Chief Executive Officer

CEO                                                                            

As a motivational speaker, advisor, author and entertainer, Jason Gorham, CEO of SharkStrike, helps talent organizations to learn how to transition from effectively attracting the right candidates, to understanding and developing the skills it takes to be exceptional.  Being regarded as the pioneer in the new era of “Smart Recruiting”, the emergence of using online media tools to identify passive candidates, Gorham has been educating the industry on the recruiting/sourcing business since 2004.

Gorham has worked with the world’s most effective corporate leaders, human resource personnel and recruiters from multibillion-dollar manufacturers to top international recruiting agencies. With over a decade of experience in recruiting, he has launched several organizations and industry resources such as J2EEJob.com, SemiConductorJobsBlog.com, SharkStrike LLC and CareerMetaSearch.com.  Currently Gorham serves as: CEO and Managing Director for SharkStrike, CEO of CareerMetaSearch.com and the author of a patent pending process called “Push Posting 2.0”.

 Gorham is an internationally recognized speaker on targeted hiring and “Smart Recruiting”. Some of his recent speaking engagements include Kennedy Information Recruiting Conference, London Enhance Media Online Recruitment Conference, ERE Conference, Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs and MIT South Florida Group.  He has developed a strong interactive audience by leveraging multiple communication channels such as blogging, micro-blogging, social networking and email marketing.

Considered as a highly regarded expert source among both the media and the staffing community, Gorham was a Dual Category Finalist for the Citrix Technology Awards.  He has been interviewed by the following publications: BusinessWeek, Wall Street Journal - Career Journal, About.com, Newsday, Hunt Scanlon, The Angel Journal, JimStroud.com, Recruiter UK, Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post and Sun Sentinel.  He holds a Bachelors Degree from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Angela Culver

Chief Marketing Officer

CMO

Angela, brings over 15 years of marketing experience to Sharkstrike including working with some of the leading software technology companies in Silicon Valley.  

While working at Quova software Angela was responsible for taking IP/geo-location targeting software and introducing it to the market.  She headed up the marketing initiative including increasing the market perception of Quova to a 65% favorable market perception.   Prior to Quova Angela spent 5 years at Brio Software as the Senior Director of Worldwide Marketing helping shape the companies marketing direction.  She helped grow the companies valuation from $8M to $130M.  While at Brio Software she had 25+ direct reports including both domestic and international and was responsible for a $20M marketing budget.

Her breath of marketing background lends itself to online marketing, public relations, direct marketing, telemarketing and international marketing.  Her previous titles include: Vice President of Marketing, Senior Director of Marketing, Senior Director of World Wide Marketing and Director of Channel Marketing.