Ben is the National Recruiting Director for RSM McGladrey, the 5th largest accounting, tax and business consulting firm in the country. In this role since 2006, Ben develops and delivers programs and strategies designed to enhance the firm’s overall recruiting efforts. Since Ben has joined the firm, he has led initiatives to re-launch the employee referral program, develop and launch an alumni program, establish new hire and candidate surveys, change national job board providers, train recruiters on writing effective job descriptions and establish a social media recruitment marketing plan.

Ben has 15 years of experience in recruiting, providing strategic and tactical recruiting services to organizations including The MITRE Corporation, Intelsat and BAE Systems. In each of these roles, Ben has been a leader in promoting the applications of technology in recruiting, advocating collaboration and community building, utilizing metrics to improve performance, providing interviewing training to management and staff, and developing out-of-the-box tactics to identify talent.

Ben is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Ben has authored a recruiting blog, spoken at several national and regional recruiting conferences, has served a board member of WTPF (a DC-based HR organization) from 2006-07, and has been an Expert Advisor with the Human Capital Institute since 2006.