Tim Barry

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Published on 2 Oct 2014

Tim Barry is an English-born business consultant with an African Heart and Celtic Soul who was has worked with many companies in SA, the UK and US, e.g. start-ups to global brands implementing and training them to use technology to assist them in hiring, managing, retaining and training staff.

He is passionate about The integration of cloud, mobile, social media and video solutions to enable businesses to:

Attract the best talent,
Improve their candidates and customer experience,
Enhance their corporate and employer brand, and
Develop their employees, especially sales staff, to reach their full potential.

Tim organises and speaks at events on the topics of HR, recruitment technology and social recruiting. He believes that HR and recruitment technology can help companies to identify and hire untapped pools of talent, thereby addressing the problem of unemployment among young people. Tim is the founder and co-host of #JobRecChatSA, a weekly Twitter chat connecting jobseekers and recruiters.

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