Christian Schoyen - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Christian Schoyen is a headhunter, author and futurist with speciality in human behaviour futurology

Futurology

Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of...

. He has since 1997 been the CEO for a successful international headhunting company that he founded, serving Global Fortune 500 companies such as Coca Cola, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

and Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

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In 2011, Christian's futuring project; "Las Vegas 2020", which was based on a methodology he had created for futuring, was selected for presentation at World Future Society

World Future Society

The World Future Society is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Bethesda, Maryland, US, founded in 1966.The Society investigates how social, economic and technological developments are shaping the future...

international Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

In 2006, Christian developed the film Living the Dream

Living the Dream (film)

Living the Dream is a 2006 comedy-drama film starring Sean Young, Christian Schoyen, and Danny Trejo. It was written by Christian Schoyen and Luis Fernandez Reneo from a story by Christian Schoyen and directed by Christian Schoyen and Allan Fiterman...

around his A Second Life belief system through the production company, A Second Life Production. The Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

review said; "It's downright misantrophic ...farcical drama with the most hostile cinematic view of Los Angeles since "CRASH". There is undeniable heart in "Living the Dream", with its implicit criticism of mercenary values..."

He is the author of the US bestselling book for companies on how to recruit; Secrets of the Executive Search Experts, as well as the self-help book How to Get the Job: A Handbook for International Job Seekers. and A Second Life: Your Second Chance at Life.

Christian graduated with a BBA from Pacific Lutheran University

Pacific Lutheran University

Pacific Lutheran University is located in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington. In September 2009, PLU had a student population of 3,582 and approximately 280 full-time faculty...

, Tacoma, WA in 1991
and conducted his ethnic studies

Ethnic studies

Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the world in relation to ethnicity. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English, ethnology, Asian studies, and orientalism...

at California State University, Northridge.

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