Will Staney

Bio

Through his consulting, public speaking engagements and training seminars, Will has helped bring success to other professionals and businesses of varying size from the individual entrepreneur to the Fortune 100 corporation. Will's community and relationship-focused approach to business using the latest social media technology has helped businesses and individuals see results by building a closer relationship with their customers. Will recently held the position of Talent Acquisition Web Strategy Manager at VMware where he is responsible for building out and implementing the corporate Employment Web Marketing and Social Recruiting Strategy for Silicon Valley's "Silent Giant". Over the past two years will has trained an entire global staffing team and implemented social media strategy and adoption throughout the organization that has dramatically changed the way they find top talent and spread awareness of their employer brand online. VMware's social recruiting adoption and strategy, spearheaded by Will, has been said to be "leading the charge in terms of innovation, transparency and energy...and many companies have unofficially looked to VMware’s social media adoption as the role model for how they would like to invest in the future." - Joshua Waldman, CareerEnlightenment.com June, 2011 He now begins a new journey as Director of Recruiting, Strategic Programs at SuccessFactors where he is responsible for driving the success of their social recruiting strategy, social media branding and strategy, employer branding, career site branding and candidate experience, adoption and development on SuccessFactors's Recruiting product, as well as keeping up with the latest emerging social and recruiting technologies to ensure SuccessFactors is on the cutting edge.