Author

Jim Buchanan

Jim has spent the past fifteen years in executive management roles in the talent acquisition industry. Prior to Cadient Talent, Jim co-founded Merlin Technologies, the parent company of Assess Systems, a human capital management company specializing in assessment software and solutions. Under his leadership, the company experienced significant growth and was acquired by a private equity firm in 2015.

Before Merlin, Jim was the CFO of Peopleclick, one of the first companies to offer an applicant tracking system serving a blue-chip customer base - including forty-nine of the Fortune 100 and more than a third of the Fortune 500. Jim earned his bachelor’s degree at Indiana State University and his MBA at Indiana University.

Guest Posts

How Employee Referrals Can Reduce Hourly Worker Turnover

Jim Buchanan Apr 1, 2020 0

With the unemployment rate at its lowest level in fifty years, sourcing candidates is an acute problem for all employers. What was called the “War for Talent” has now given way to the “War for Attention”. This battle is particularly…
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