Douglas Tikkanen is a seasoned talent acquisition manager with over 15 years of experience in evaluating and developing recruitment strategies. He possesses a deep knowledge of various ATS systems such as Taleo, SAP, and Oracle and is skilled at training recruiters to meet compliance requirements while attracting top talent. Throughout his career, Douglas has worked with a range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, such as Target, and smaller recruitment agencies like HRFirst. He has held various direct salaried roles and specialties like government liaison and salary arbitration.

Douglas received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and he has studied CIR at AIRS and DOD certification. At the onset of his career, he worked as a retail manager and later developed his talent acquisition expertise.

His professional experience includes serving as Director of Talent Acquisition at DTConsulting and Senior IT Recruiter at Experis/Manpower Group. He has also served as an RPO Talent Acquisition Consultant at Kelly Services and Samsung Electronics America.