Johnny Torrance-Nesbitt
John “Johnny” Torrance-Nesbitt is an award-winning Global Employer Branding & Global Talent Acquisition executive with 15 plus years in building/leading global and regional talent acquisition and employer branding functions at several global Fortune 500 companies. He is global working in Global Employer Branding and was an Employer Branding Director at Randstad and has been Director of Employment Branding & University Relations at Monsanto in St. Louis for over five-plus years where he won four consecutive “Rapid Recognition Awards” for superior achievements. Prior to that, he was at Lockheed (corporate hdqts) in Maryland as head office Corporate Staffing Supervisor & Senior Recruiter, and he built the global recruiting forUnext.com, an innovative Chicago start-up. Johnny was also nominated in 2018 by his former organizational behavior professor, Dave Ulrich, for the prestigious “Employer Brand Leader of the Year 2018 (Global Leader Category.)” and by others in 2019. He is also a volunteer appointed a judge for Employer Brand Management Awards and the Web Marketing Association and a writer. Mr. Nesbitt holds a Bachelors in Anthropology from Amherst with Dean’s List honors. While he lived in England, he engaged with the US Embassy there and has a citation from the U.S. Embassy in London for his assistance on “equal access for Americans to UK opportunities.” He obtained his MBA in Finance in 1988 (and a Fellowship Winner) and then worked 3 years in Corporate Finance for First Chicago Capital Markets, Inc. You can follow him on Twitter @JohnnyTorrNesbi, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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46 Technologies to Enhance Your Employer Brand
Enhancing your Employer Brand should always be a top organizational and recruiting goal (for many reasons). We submit that the next wave is using technology tools in your Employer Branding… Read more
Using Your Firm’s Competitive Differentiation in your Employer Branding Program
As you build out and continue to tweak your Employer Branding Program, you might want to incorporate and “bake in” your firm’s differentiators—(assuming, of course, you know what they… Read more
Tech, Platforms, and Tools to enhance your Employer Brand Efforts in 2019
Enhancing your Employer Brand is always the goal (for many reasons). Today’s Employer Branding practitioner and devotee can take advantage of technology and some tools and platforms for building and… Read more
Using Corporate Branding concepts and terms in your Employer Branding efforts
“now evolved into a total system and approach (mostly) embedded in a company’s Talent Acquisition culture” It is now time to start thinking and implementing your Employer Branding Program… Read more
Employer branding won’t work unless the C-Suite cares (like most things)
Employment/employer branding is a hot topic in HR and Marketing circles — but when it comes to branding awareness in the executive suite, there is much more work to do…. Read more
Employer Branding As A Strategic Approach To Long Term Talent Acquisition
Building a long-term image in the minds of passive candidates Employer Branding (EB) is a key component of any integrated talent acquisition strategy; it is both a long-term strategic solution… Read more
Recruiting at It’s Best Is a Delicate Dance Between HR and Line Managers
Here’s something I always try to keep in mind as an HR professional: Hiring is a shared company responsibility — aka, a delicate dance — and it works best when… Read more
Remembering How Social Media Has Upended Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
During my Talent Acquisition career, I have seen how recruitment has undergone transformative change over the years, from a time when recruiting was driven by print advertisements in the late… Read more
Talent Acquisition is NOT Responsible for Retention, But Guess Who Is?
Sometimes, I can’t believe some of the things I see. I just finished reading a very ill-informed article by a HR novice/Intern titled Employee Retention Should Be a Talent Acquisition Responsibility. This… Read more
The Critical First 100 Days of an Employment Branding Program
I began my career in Employment Branding in way back 2002. Since then, a great many people have asked me about the early steps you need to take (in the… Read more
15 Must Ask Questions For Aligning Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding
Here’s a simple truth: Leading edge and “best place to work” companies recognize the critical need to synch up their talent acquisition strategy with their employer branding. These companies achieve… Read more
Want Great Talent? Recruiters Must Get Past the Industry Experience Trap
I recently participated, as the Recruiting representative, on some Skype interviews of candidates for human resource positions for a large power utility company. The candidates on the screen that day… Read more
Need a New Year’s Resolution? How About Building a Diverse Talent Pool?
Start your new year with a new strategy: Build and implement a diverse talent pool for your company. Whether you use social media or traditional sourcing pipelines to do it… Read more
