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Buffy Filippell as Buffy the Headhunter
I first heard about "Buffy the Headhunter" about 5 years ago from a friend in sports who had just worked with her to find his new job. He is among hundreds of people in sports who can thank Buffy Filippell for helping them find their dream job.
Recently Buffy and her company TeamWork Consulting have also designed new software that helps teams weed through hundred of prospective employees to find the best applicants.
Buffy talks about the job market, job hunting on-line, and how Indiana University has the best school in the Sports Administration program (it just happens to be her alma mater) in the July Gameops.com Interview.
Gameops.com: Thanks for your time. Can you explain what you do and what your site has been built to do?
Buffy Filippell: We have two businesses: TeamWork Consulting, Inc. and TeamWork Online LLC.
TeamWork Consulting, Inc. is our executive search firm which has been serving the sports and live event industry for 15 years now (www.teamworkconsulting.com). We most recently started a new business...TeamWork Online (www.teamworkonline.com). Allow me to talk about that.
TeamWork Online is the leading internet address for sports jobs, based upon Top9.com. With 120,000 unique visitors monthly to its various websites, TeamWork Online powers the interactive job boards of sports leagues and teams including the NBA, WNBA, NBDL Teams, NHL League and its member clubs, Major League Soccer and its teams, STAPLES Center/Anschutz Entertainment Group of Companies, Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Lightning and TeamWork Consulting (Executive Search Firm for Sports/Live Events). TeamWork Online is an Application Service Provider (ASP) that provides this integrated Job Board and Applicant Tracking System directly online through a URL site. There are no special software requirements and it can be accessed through an internet browser program.
TeamWork Online provides individuals the opportunity to gain direct access to the hiring managers of professional sports teams. As with many sophisticated Job Boards, applicants can create an online record and be automatically notified of jobs (Personal Search Agent) that may match their skills and apply for positions as soon as they are posted. Applicants' records are confidential and only seen by the hiring manager when they apply for a specific job. Each job board has a separate database. The program is strictly permission-based where applicants can edit, modify and even delete their own records at any time.
Gameops.com: How did you get started in this?
Buffy Filippell: When the Houston Texans hired us to recruit their leading executives for their front office, I flew down to Houston four days after the announcement. There were over 300 resumes stacked up and 100 coming in per day. There were too many voice mails trying to follow up their resumes. I asked the website developers whether we could put something online and designed the program for them. Two weeks later, the Houston Texans had the first interactive online Job Board for a sports team with about 1,000 resumes coming in monthly. That exceeded many of the sports job boards' databases.
When the XFL asked us to help them hire 40 executives of the 112 they were hiring for 8 teams in 4 months, we insisted they use our online job board software on their website. The XFL had over 56,000 candidates apply for positions throughout the league over only a course of months. They could not have handled such a volume using traditional means. The NBA and NHL have had similar results and the processing has become so much easier.
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