Scott Ryan

Vice President of Client Services

Scott Ryan has spent his entire professional career in the online recruiting industry, helping clients navigate new solutions to find the best talent.  Over the past 15 years Scott has worked with Fortune 500 companies, start-up companies, and the Federal Government, introducing them to online recruitment products and innovative services.  Scott has a true passion for the online recruitment industry and loves talking with people who share his passion for new and exciting solutions that will change the way people look for jobs and how companies find qualified candidates.

Scott started his online recruitment career in sales and client services at The Monster Board in early 1997. where he introduced and evangelized online recruiting to organizations of all sizes that relied on newspaper classified advertising as the primary source of finding job candidates.

Scott was also an original member of Monster Government Solutions beginning in 2001.  An integral team member, working with the newly created Department of Homeland Security, on online recruitment strategies for staffing  the Transportation & Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners and supervisors.  The success of the TSA project helped Monster Government Solutions win the award for a contract worth up to $62 million over ten years to overhaul the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s USAJOBS Web site (www.usajobs.opm.gov), which presents an average of more than 17,000 federal job vacancy announcements per day.

After his time at Monster, Scott was a key senior member of sales organizations introducing and new online recruitment matching technology for JobFox and MyPerfectGig.

Scott is a regular blog contributor on Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ere.net) and Recruitingblogs.com with his weekly “Grandma’s Chicken Soup” blog, which highlights top innovative online recruitment industry news covering LinkedIn and Facebook for Recruiting with a touch of personal commentary.

Scott graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Vermont and a master’s degree in International Relations from Boston University.