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Craig's professional sales and sales management career spans 19 years. During this time he has amassed substantial experience in building sales teams, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, public relations, recruiting, hiring, training, and motivating. Craig is considered to be an expert on the job market, staffing industry and recruiting trends. He has been quoted by the press in publications such as: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Business Journal, Fortune.com, Knowledge Management Magazine and Staffing Industry Report. Craig has been invited to speak regularly to groups such as the Staffing Industry Executive Forum, Pinnacle Society, American Staffing Association, Churchill Club, TiE, NACCB, and the Software Publisher's Association. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2000 completed the Harvard Business School, OPM - Key Executive Program.

Craig is the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing for HireAbility.com – a recruitment technology and service company. HireAbility’s Talent Trader solution connects the world’s recruiters. Its ALEX resume parsing product processes the world’s resumes. Craig is responsible for building a global professional network of corporate, agency and independent recruiters that collaborates to fill positions across all major markets. Today HireAbility has a Recruiting Network of 300+ staffing organizations and $5 million in available fees. Its ALEX resume parser processes millions of resumes, in 14 languages from 33 countries across four continents at a speed of one second per resume. Prior to HireAbility.com, Craig was the Senior Vice President for TMP Worldwide/Hudson Global Resources (HHGP) and with Hall Kinion (HAKI onNASDAQ) as Executive Vice President of Recruiting Services. He was successful in growing the Hall Kinion (HK) recruiting business from annual revenues of $30M to $296M while opening 44 new sales offices, and hiring 400 recruiters. During this time, Craig was an active member of the HK executive team helping with the company IPO in August of 1997, secondary public offering in 2000 and with the due diligence and integration of five acquisitions. While Craig was responsible for sales, marketing and training at HK they were included as #24 on the Forbes Magazine list of "Best" companies to work for and added to the S&P Small Cap Index. From 1989-1996, Craig spent six years as Vice President of Sales and Strategic Consulting with Strategic Mapping, Inc., a leading developer of GIS software and data for business applications. During his time with Strategic Mapping, he grew annual software sales revenue from $1M to $25M.


Contact Craig via email @ csilverman@hireability.com