This is the first time Internet and direct phone sourcing will be in the same room at the same time, complementing each other with results far greater and quicker than if only one source was tapped.

You will be learning the best of Internet sourcing and the lost art of direct telephone sourcing, exchanging practical knowledge about all aspects of talent identification and recruitment.  Shally and Conni will obtain your most challenging job openings in advance and will present their findings — qualified, passive talent — in the workshop. Shally will show you how he got the names and will do a few key Internet demos and then Conni will play the recorded calls demonstrating how to identify by phone the individuals who were un-identifiable online. This full-day workshop will present real-time solutions for the participants’ current, critical needs so that the examples demonstrated will be for current, critical, job openings. 

You will learn critical-sourcing survival skills to rapidly and inexpensively identify key talent online and recruit from all the Internet sources without being overwhelmed. After this session, you will totally understand how to easily create, grow, and maximize online recruiting pipelines using tools and features built right into your favorite existing websites such as Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and dozens of others.

The killer combination to succeed in online recruiting is learning how to create sustainable pipelines and making the best out of already existing online communities. Among the critical skills you’ll learn in this hands-on lab will be how to effectively stay connected to all your networks and be alerted to relevant talent and opportunities while spending a minimum amount of time managing the information overload.

And, you will benefit greatly from these proactive telephone sourcing techniques. Using this forgotten sourcing channel to complete your Internet research, Conni will demonstrate the “how-to” of successful and ethical telephone identification. Not only will she help you identify which companies possess the best talent for a given role, but she will present the steps to identify, in organization chart form, the qualified talent your hiring managers most want to hire.

As the economy recovers, many experts predict we are heading into a perfect storm.

What is looming on the horizon?

• Requisition loads returning to normal.
• Increased turnover as the demand for talent heats up again.
• Reduced resources to deliver services.

In this enlightening session, David Szary will discuss the steps you can take today to prepare for 2010 and beyond. We will outline a strategy and provide tactical tools including:

• An ROI-based business case tool that shows you step by step how to justify your case for maintaining or adding resources to handle increased requisition loads
• How to reduce costs without reducing your budget
• Three ‘no-cost’ process improvement changes to reduce the time spent sourcing/pre-screening unqualified candidates by 50% so you are prepared to do more with less
• How to create a viral marketing/outreach program to develop relationships with top talent in critical-to-fill positions for future needs (aka pipelining)
• Specific methods for building/enhancing your brand culture to retain top employees and recruit top industry talent

If you feel a perfect storm is (or even might be!) brewing in your organization, this is a must-attend event! You will walk away with tactical tools that will help you align your recruitment plan with your organization’s business strategy that your executive management team will understand and approve.

Here’s your chance to be the session rather than just attend one! Lizz Pellet, author, national speaker, and globally recognized expert in organizational culture and employment branding, will select participants through out the program to deploy a mini “Brand Scan” on their company’s career site — live.

This session is not for the shy, but rather for recruitment and talent management professionals who want to share and learn about employment branding best-practices, and how to ensure the recruitment message is authentic and congruent with their organizational culture. This is an interactive session, and everyone will have a chance to be chosen as a participant in a live “Brand Scan” — time permitting, of course.

This presentation is extremely powerful and straight-forward. The knowledge transfer from career site review can be taken back and deployed in the organization immediately.

Participants will gain an understanding of how to:

• Look at an employment brand in the context of culture
• Define cultural “fit” to identify the type of employee you desire to attract and retain and those you’d like to repel from applying in the first place
• Use employment branding in recruiting and retention efforts to increase ROI
• How to conduct their own “Brand Scan” to determine their current employment brand messaging

This intensive workshop will take you from a 50,000 foot view of the mobile space, straight into the trenches with mobile campaign strategy, building, and execution. Discover the mobile landscape and ecosystem, get introduced to many concepts around mobile advertising and marketing, and see how mobile can be used to identify, engage, and attract job seekers.

You will:

• Learn mobile terms, trends, devices, vendors, platforms, applications, and services
• Find out how to build effective mobile recruiting programs (attraction, engagement, opt-in list building)
• See mobile recruiting in action (campaign strategy, execution, measurement)
• Discover the best way to use mobile technologies (text, voice, video) based on your unique business needs
• Learn why local (proximity) is at the heart of taking advantage of the huge mobile space
• Discuss a comparison of successful and unsuccessful mobile practices
• See what other successful brands and agencies are doing in the mobile space
• Talk about social networking and the role it plays in mobile recruiting
• Get a unique mobile perspective from both the recruiter and job-seeker sides of the fence
• Understand how to mobilize your website, blog, or career site in minutes
• Receive take-away action items, ideas, and resources to help you get started right away

With job seekers carrying mobile devices everywhere, investing in mobile should be a focal point of your recruiting strategy moving forward. This is amplified with the increased number of smart mobile devices, their ever-expanding capabilities, improved browsing features, and applications. The audience will be encouraged to interact live using their mobile devices during the workshop.

While workforce planning is essential for keeping ahead in the competition for talent, many of the concepts behind sound workforce planning strategy remain largely misunderstood. Back by popular demand, this session will focus on taking the mystery out of workforce planning and setting the stage for a successful planning effort.

The workshop will be led by presenter Ed Newman, Leader of Futurestep U.S. and President of the Newman Group, a talent management consulting leader. In this session, he will provide strategic insight as well as in-depth analysis of key details that drive workforce planning. The session will cover critical questions and issues that are essential to getting your initiative on track, including:

• Understanding “where you are” in workforce planning
• Defining workforce planning
• Understanding the various maturity levels; is what you’re doing basic, or sophisticated?
• Understanding the technology-solutions landscape
• Sharing practical tools to deploy in your organization
• How to “operationalize” a workforce plan
• Typical dashboards and analytics used

This is an ideal session for anyone involved in leading or contributing to a workforce planning effort and a great chance to gain a clear and practical perspective on a subject that is crucial to talent management success for today’s enterprise.

Start the conference off with appetizers and beverages with your fellow attendees, speakers, and exhibitors.