Robert Merrill
Ancestry.com Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition
San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dublin, London
“Hire Smart or Manage Tough”
I am Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition at Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource home to billions of historical records, millions of family trees and much more. It's also the world's leading network of businesses dedicated to helping everyone discover, preserve and share their family history. I lead a talented team of internal and contract recruiters worldwide to drive intelligent recruiting strategy in our key locations around the world.
Let's get to work.
Since 2001, I have helped connect companies and talented professionals with a particular style of recruiting, interviewing, onboarding and retention that helps companies change their recruiting processes and capabilities forever.
Companies I have worked with have better access to talent within and outside their organizations (systems + involvement), generate higher retention through smart hiring and onboarding, and significantly reduce total recruiting costs over “post-and-pray” hiring approaches.
My talent acquisition philosophy is to assist companies:
* Find and hire the right people.
* Become an employer of choice.
* Fix (or create) your recruiting and hiring process.
* Train your managers how to Hire Smart.
* Manage recruiting and hiring end-to-end.
* Build candidate engagement online and offline.