L.J. Brock

Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition

Red Hat

RED HAT HAS BUILT A NEARLY $1 BILLION BUSINESS SELLING FREE SOFTWARE

FOUNDED 1993IPO 1999

~3500 EMPLOYEES

65 OFFICES IN30 COUNTRIES

TRADED ON NYSELISTED ON THE S&P 500 INDEX

WORLD'S TRUSTEDOPEN SOURCE LEADER

PRESIDENT & CEO,JIM WHITEHURST

RECRUITING WORLD2008

OUR CHALLENGE

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

YOU CAN'T BE RIGID ABOUT RECRUITING

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

CREATE A LANGUAGE EVERYONE IN THE BUSINESS CAN UNDERSTAND

RED HAT MODEL

RED HAT MODEL

Red Hat CapabilityRED HAT MODEL

RED HAT MODEL

RED HAT MODEL

CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT

GOAL

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

YOU CAN'T BE RIGID ABOUT RECRUITING

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

BUILD THE TEAM AROUND THE MODEL

TEAM STRUCTURE

RECRUITER CAPACITY

RECRUITER CAPACITY

RECRUITER CAPACITY

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

YOU CAN'T BE RIGID ABOUT RECRUITING

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

YOUR TEAM WILL NEVER BE BIG ENOUGH

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

HIRE EXPERTS FOR THE TECHNOLOGY YOU HAVE TOMORROW

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

MAKE EVERYONE A RECRUITER

REFERRAL GOAL

EMPLOYER VALUE PROPOSITION

You have the chance to make an impact. And a chance to challenge yourself. To grow beyond the job you were originally hired for.

Red Hat doesn't always set you on a clear career path. You have to have initiative. Make your opportunities. Seize your chances.

People at Red Hat have a lot of passion for a lot of things. It drives us. Makes us work harder and create better things for the world.

Passionate people have strong opinions. You need to take feedback gracefully. And sometimes you have to be able to stand up for your own opinions to be heard.

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company in the world. Our brand and reputation far outreaches our size.

Our work is challenging. We're competing against companies with many times more resources. Our customers have only the highest expectations of us.

We're growing rapidly, globally. We need to move quickly and change as the market and the needs of our customers change.

If you don't like changing directions, you may become frustrated. You need to be comfortable with ambiguity. Processes and systems aren't always in place.

INTERVIEWER TRAINING

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

YOU CAN'T BE RIGID ABOUT RECRUITING

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

WORK WITHIN YOUR CANDIDATES' COMMUNITIES

LESSONS I'VE LEARNED:

YOU CAN'T BE RIGID ABOUT RECRUITING

TAKE A PHASED APPROACH

RECRUITING WORLD2010

SUCCESSES

1. Moved recruiting culture from focus on outsourcing to focus on internal capabilities

2. Dramatically reduced cost

3. Hired 800+ people each of the last two years primarily with internal team CHALLENGES

1. Global integration: Success in Latin America and Asia, but struggled in Europe

2. Keeping a distributed team on the same page

3. Meeting the daily challenges of recruiting while still solving the big problems we don't yet have answers for

SUCCESSES

1. Moved recruiting culture from going outside to building recruiting talent from within

2. Dramatically reduced cost

3. More than 800 people hired each year for the last two years

CHALLENGES

1. Global integration: Success in Latin America and Asia, but struggled in Europe

2. Departmental differences: Success in engineering, but struggled in sales

3. Meeting the daily challenges of recruiting while still solving the big problems we don't yet have answers for

THANK YOU

EMAIL lbrock@redhat.com

TWITTER @LJBrock