Understanding that the importance of your organization's success hinges on your initial hiring decisions, “Get Smart” People! is a fundamental seminar and your insurance policy for getting off to a strong start. Mapping and securing your first hire(s) is critical for a start up organization to reach new markets and develop greater intellectual capital. Making the wrong hiring decision could mean throwing away a substantial investment of time and money on recruitment, not to mention the possibility of a long-term bad culture effect. Don't look back and wonder if your business plan would have worked with someone else as the first hire. Though you have overcome many obstacles to get to this point, you must now focus even more in order to take full advantage of your opportunity and cross the finish line!

Session Leaders:
Judd Hoffman, President, Hoffman Recruiters


Judd Hoffman, a Harvard graduate and life-long entrepreneur, started his career as an Information Technology Consultant for Myers-Holum, Inc., an international consulting firm based in New York City. In addition to implementing financial software for large corporate clients throughout the United States, Judd's entrepreneurial drive motivated him to develop the firm's first official recruiting program and took it from its infancy to the level it is at today, maximizing the number of long-term, quality hires at both the consultant and manager levels. Judd then went on to start his own company, Hoffman Resources, LLC, and secured two patents surrounding his idea of a personal security tracking system which would help to locate missing children and elderly people. At the same time as he was securing financing and spinning off his patented idea into a company called Situs, Inc., Judd founded Hoffman Recruiters, LLC, where he continues to develop innovative recruiting and talent acquisition strategies and counts among his client base Gambro Healthcare, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chubb Insurance and numerous law firms. In his ten years as President of Hoffman Recruiters, Judd has secured two partners into the firm, raised outside investment with which to grow the practice in size and scope, and developed recruiting and candidate tracking software to both use and sell as stand-alone products. A former member of MIT Enterprise Forum's membership committee, Judd has learned from and assisted others in growing businesses from start-ups to the Fortune 500.

Pamela J. Kuphal, Senior Consultant, Hoffman Recruiters, LLC


Pamela Kuphal brings over ten years of expertise with all facets of employment from selection to employee retention to the firm. Pam's human resources consulting experience includes employee relations, performance coaching, individual development, training, compensation and benefits. Clients have ranged in size from small, pre-IPO start-ups to multi-national, billion dollar conglomerates. Industries include but are not limited to; financial services, insurance, retail, biotech, consulting and consumer products. Pam goes the "extra-mile" to ensure that a successful, long-term relationship is established between herself and her clients and their associates. Pamela graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University where she had a dual concentration in Human Resource Management and Management.

Source:  http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/ceo/people.htm   10/18/2206