A Quick Introduction

Hello Friends,

To start my contribution I thought I should offer a quick word of introduction to all my fellow recruiters. My name is Tim Kantel and I'm the Ontario Rep for St. Stephen's University (my fancy title is Marketing and Recruiting Officer). I'm based out of my home which is in Carleton Place, Ontario which is just outside of Ottawa and travel throughout mostly Ontario and Quebec raising students and awareness of SSU. I'm married to Sarah and have a 2 1/2 year old son Evan and another on the way at the end of this month.

My connection to Christian Higher Ed comes naturally as my Father is actually the founder of St. Stephen's University. I've been in and around SSU for most of my life except for about the 7 years before I came back on staff last September. I hold the claim to fame of being the first Recruiter that SSU ever hired back in the middle 90's and as I think about that time, this is one reason I'm really excited about this blog. Back in those days I wish I had the chance to be as connected to a community of colleagues like this. I would have loved to known the secrets and tricks of the trade that I had to figure out on my own. As we post and talk amongst ourselves here, I hope that we can all pick up information and suggestions that will make our lives easier and let us be more effective in what we do. As well it will be great to make new relationships and share road stories with people who understand!

So aside from Recruiting, I've done a lot of sales work in my short career selling everything from websites to Fair Trade coffee so I'm looking forward to sharing some of the things I've learned from that side of my life as well.

Anyway, enough about me....