Hire More People: Make More Placements: Be The Best Recruiter in 2008

Hear from three industry experts on the top hiring trends of 2008.

When

May 8: 10:30 AM Eastern Time (9:30 Central - 7:30 Pacific) 

NOTE: IF you can't make it at the time above we are hosting it again at 8:30 AM Eastern Time (7:30 Central - 5:30 Pacific) on the following day, May 9th.

TOPICS

Sourcing: Building a Sourcing Team that Goes the Distance
Panelist: Shally Steckerl, Founder, JobMachine.net

Sourcing allows you to reach the deepest of the talent pools, or those candidates who don't take the initiative to seek out career opportunities on their own. In this executive briefing Mr. Steckerl will highlight the keys to building, measuring, and managing a world-class sourcing effort from selection of sourcers, resources and technology, through architecture and resource alignment.

Mr. Steckerl has developed a reputation as one of the most respected authorities in passive candidate research and talent pipeline development worldwide. You will benefit from his deep experience obtained by building, leading and being part of the fabric of the worlds most respected sourcing teams.

Social Networking: Establishing Web 2.0 Communities that Help You Hire
Panelist: Jim Durbin, Founder, DurbinMedia.com

Social media is a term that is widely overused and a marketing discipline that is vastly underutilized.  Social media is an all-encompassing term for the Web 2.0, covering blogs, social networks, podcasts, and video sites. The goal of social media is to identify clusters of customers and like-minded professionals online and to communicate with them in a joint effort to give and receive value online.

Using lessons familiar to every successful recruiter, Jim Durbin shows businesses how to identify, connect with, source from and join social networks online for maximum advantage and minimum risk.

Selection & Retention: Bridge the Gap between Recruiting and Retention
Panelist: Margaret Graziano, Founder, KeenHire.com

Ms. Graziano will give an overview of Job Benchmarking, and why it is critical in today's talent climate. She will overview the key neurological and psychological areas that predict Performance and how Assessment actually evaluate a person.

Learn about her FAB 5 Assessments and how they apply to the hiring and retention process, and walk away with a method for Choosing Assessments wisely. Get an idea of what they cost and how you can negotiate pricing and get better deals.

How it works...

This will be a 90+ minute event. Each panelist present a 10-minute executive briefing on their topic, and then you will get the opportunity to ask live questions and get real-time responses. An executive summary with the top ten tips from each panelist will be made available to all registered participants, along with a log of frequently ask questions with their respective answers.

PLEASE NOTE: Once you place your order you will receive a confirming email with instructions on how to register. IMPORTANT: If you do not follow those instructions you will not be registered for the event! After you have completed both steps (payment AND registration) you will receive the meeting URL and dial-in details via email three times. The first one will go out exactly one week before your chosen date, followed up by a second one the day before, and a final one an hour prior to the event.

Cost: $89.97
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About the panelists:

Shally Steckerl is the Founder and Chief CyberSleuth of JobMachine, Inc., the premier provider of sourcing consulting services and workforce development. Early in his career Mr. Steckerl realized that as a contingency recruiter he could beat the competition by finding people who were not available in mainstream sources. Since then he has been instrumental in building numerous world class sourcing and research organizations. Mr. Steckerl is frequently requested to present at leading domestic and international recruiting conferences and conduct private workshops and spends his time consulting with organization interested in building passive candidate pipeline generation and recruitment teams, and developing their advanced sourcing skills.

Jim Durbin is the owner of Durbin Media Group http://durbinmedia.com/, an interactive marketing firm specializing in social media.  As a blogger and a business owner, Jim is a valued speaker on the topics of online employment, recruiting blogs, and using social networks in the hiring process.  Prior to starting the Durbin Media Group, Jim was a top performer as an account executive for national staffing firms.  He entered the employment world in Los Angeles in 1999, at the peak of the dotcom boom.  Mr. Durbin is a 1995 graduate of Washington and Lee University in Virginia, and currently lives in St Louis.  

Margaret Graziano trains and educates corporate HR professionals, hiring managers, and recruiters how to bridge the gap between recruitment and retention by mastering the benchmarking process, applying that skill set to the candidate selection process, and creating systems and processes that focus on choosing the right hire. Ms. Graziano has been in the recruiting industry for 25 years, incorporating pre-employment assessments as well as behavioral and values based interviewing techniques in her company's selection and placement process since 1999. Her company, KeenHire.com is committed to empowering people in the people business to choose their talent wisely.