Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 12, 2001
GERRY STANTON is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the
Board of E-Cruiter.com, Inc. Mr. Stanton has built a successful career
in human resources. After seven years as Vice President of HR Worldwide
with Mitel Corporation, he founded his own HR consulting firm. In 1984,
Stanton & Associates was born. Then in 1986, with momentum from his
first venture, Mr. Stanton founded the career transition firm Drake Beam
Morin (Ottawa) Inc., an affiliate operation of Drake Beam Morin Inc. Ten
years later, in 1996, his vast HR experience and remarkable vision
became the foundation for him founding E-Cruiter.com, Inc. Foreseeing
the Internet quickly becoming the communications vehicle of the future,
Mr. Stanton's mandate was to make corporate recruiting easier, faster,
and less costly by using streamlined communications and information
management. E-Cruiter.com is currently a market leader in Web-based
recruitment solutions in Canada. In 1998, E-Cruiter.com won the Award of
Excellence for Best Implementation or Innovative Use of Information
Technology from the Society of Canadian Office Automation Professionals
(SCOAP). In 1999, E-Cruiter was named one of the Top 50 Web Development
and Web Services Firms in Canada in the Branham Group's ranking of the
Top 250 IT Companies. Also in 1999, Mr. Stanton took the company public
on NASDAQ, making E-Cruiter the third dot-com company to go public in
Canada. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief overview and history of the company?Mr. Stanton: E-Cruiter.com is a leading Web-powered hiring management
system that empowers companies to attract, select,