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Pre-Conference Workshops 

Join Shally Steckerl, Glenn Gutmacher, Tim O'Connor and Dan Harris for this "must see" pre-conference workshop at ERE San Diego  

Critical-sourcing survival skills will be demonstrated by two of the industry’s pre-eminent Internet recruiters in this two-part event (sign up for either or both). Successful recruiters can hardly make time to data-mine the Internet for leads, much less spend hours on end digging through hundreds of search results. With all of today’s online resources and tactics, it has become even more difficult just to navigate what’s available to you and figure out where to start. As time demands grow and competition stiffens, recruiters need to increase efficiency in their daily activities to remain competitive. To ensure your job is not outsourced, learn how to best use sourcing technology and productivity tools to get the most out of your day. Free up your time to close candidates and add value.

March 31st  10:00 am - 1:00 pm - Passive Candidates for Busy Recruiters: 

In this half-day lab, you’ll see how to easily source passive candidates for your open requisitions in just 10 minutes per search. Stop wasting time with complex Internet search techniques that take months to master and days to execute. Bring your toughest requisitions and your laptop and we’ll get online together to solve real-life challenges you’re facing and build a pipeline of leads in class. During this practical hands-on lab, busy recruiters will learn where to start and how to apply the quickest sourcing methods for any kind of requirement. Become an expert in several techniques you can use to generate leads daily without disrupting your busy day including:

• Easy-to-use search engine commands that quickly reveal hidden leads
• Source from dozens of Web 2.0 and "new media" resources
• Get results from LinkedIn in ways you never even thought possible
• Let your research work for you with simple automation techniques 

March 31st  2:00 pm - 5:00pm  - Master Level Sourcing 

Ready to be blown away? Join Glenn and Shally to elevate your sourcing skills to new heights. If you think you have mastered sourcing with nothing left to learn, you will be shocked and amazed at how much more these two experts will reveal. In this course, designed for the seasoned professional researcher, you’ll learn techniques that will allow you to penetrate traditional sources deeper and faster than ever before. Join Glenn and Shally as they explore the new frontiers of Internet research including:

• Using regular expressions with search engines like Exalead and Google Scholar
  
• New search engines that revive search commands like NEAR and linkdomain: in ways you have never seen before
  
• Elegant yet simple negative search terms to remove the spam and garbage from search engine results
  
• Master the art of search-jutsu with little understood, yet easily applied, field search syntax
  
• Multi-window bookmarklets that bring up search-specific results from various channels in just a few keystrokes to ensure you don’t skip relevant sources.
  

Also at the conference Shally will be presenting at a general session: 

Staffing leaders need to know how their recruitment organization relates to their entire company’s external environment. The simple strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats analysis is a tool used to audit an organization and its environment. While typically used by marketers, this instrument can be easily applied to mapping your talent-acquisition landscape and figure out which areas of improvement to make your priorities. A SWOT analysis can reveal critical needs that must be addressed and pinpoint unknown capabilities to leverage.

Here’s what we’ll cover in this interactive seminar:

• The basic ground rules for creating a practical analysis
• Identifying what strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are related to recruiting
• A recruiting SWOT analysis sample case study
• Suggestions on strategies that could be formulated as a result of the SWOT analysis

Register here ($200 discount code SD08SS) http://www.ere.net/events/2008/spring/register.asp