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

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Join us at Rivals for the Official After Hours Party sponsored by JIBE. We’ll have snacks and beverages to keep the networking going.

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Our Conference Chairperson kicks off ERE Expo Fall and sets the stage for two days of learning and collaboration.

Former college and NFL great Chris Spielman calls him an “incredible recruiter.” Former football coach John Cooper calls him a “master recruiter.” ESPN has voted him the nation’s #1 recruiter. In this keynote, Coach Conley will tell you what you can learn from his football recruiting successes. He’ll tell you stories of how he has found the “hidden decision maker” when recruiting, and what he has done to not let recruits slip away after they’ve accepted. He’ll talk about the challenges of recruiting for a relatively obscure organization and what he has done to overcome those challenges and compete with big-name schools.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and mingle with fellow attendees during this networking break between sessions.

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A glimpse into the transformation journey of the PepsiCo talent acquisition function and a view into the future plans.

Enjoy a buffet lunch in the exhibit hall – mingle with other attendees, chat with speakers, and check out the latest and greatest from the recruiting industry’s leading vendors.

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Essential to today’s talent acquisition strategy is an effective employee referral program. Sjoerd Gehring will provide a detailed overview of Accenture’s employee referral program, which has been honored multiple times at the ERE Recruiting Excellence Awards. He will discuss the foundation of the program as well as some of its recent enhancements, including LinkedIn Referral Engine and the employee referral mobile app.

Within 10 years human resources as we know it today will no longer exist. All the core disciplines of HR will be merged into other company departments or will be outsourced — all except for one: talent management. Talent management — the art of recruiting great talent and retaining a driven workforce to keep the company competitive — will evolve into a more strategic role for the company. What does this mean for the recruiters of today? How will you refine your role during this transition and prove your value? How will internal and external recruiters differ? What new skills do I need to acquire? Learn from the unique insight of Dan Kaplan.

“Innovation” is the current buzzword in business, but how much does anyone in staffing pay attention to it? Innovation is for products and services, isn’t it? Not necessarily. Not enough companies are thinking about talent management innovation, leaving that kind of forward-thinking change to the business. It’s time that we begin to change the heart and minds of talent management, starting with ourselves, to move our companies forward as leaders of innovation from the inside out. As the war for talent begins again, this is the kind of differentiator that will bring top talent to your company.

In this session, you’ll learn about how innovation in staffing can transform the culture of a company, and can change the way we think about talent attraction, development, and engagement. You’ll hear about Talent Connection, Cisco’s internal hiring program, as an example of this kind of change, as well as some hands-on methodology for bringing innovation capabillity and process into your staffing organization.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and mingle with fellow attendees during this networking break between sessions.

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Competition for top talent in Silicon Valley is about as tough as it gets—and in such a hot market, positioning your company as an employer of choice is essential. In this session, Steve Cadigan, Vice President of People Operations at LinkedIn, will share how his team doubled LinkedIn’s employee base in 2010 by making talent a #1 priority company-wide and building a compelling value proposition to attract top talent. You’ll take away strategies for making great talent an integral part of your culture, building an authentic employment brand from the ground up, and engaging hiring managers in the process.

Recruiting is more than a transaction at Deloitte. It’s about building relationships over time. In this session, you’ll hear about how the company gets to know students earlier in their academic careers, offering them the opportunity to “experience” Deloitte through interactive programs. Hear how Deloitte maintains strong ties to more than 300 colleges and universities in 49 states through its university relations program, which connects Deloitte’s professionals, university faculty, students, and the community at large. Find out how this relationship-based recruiting approach has enhanced Deloitte’s brand and led to some strong results, including increased student interest, unparalleled quality of hire, enhanced faculty relationships, and business development opportunities.

If you’re interested in learning more about job candidates — and especially how to learn more about job candidates, you’ll like this session moderated by Kevin Wheeler. We’ll have experts on the stage to each share a tool or tip for learning more about candidates. Then, we’ll throw it open for questions. Jeff Dickey-Chasins will briefly talk about using surveys to learn more about your job candidates. Shannon Myers will talk about learning more about where your job candidates hang out online, and what language they use when doing searches. Wendell Williams will talk about the psychology of job candidates.

Wind down the day with drinks and appetizers in the exhibit hall — a great opportunity to see what fellow attendees learned that day. Don’t miss out on this chance to engage your colleagues in discussions about the challenges facing our industry.

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The Conference Chair recaps yesterday’s sessions and highlights today’s discussions.

A U.S. Navy leader tells you how it delivered its highest-quality applicant year yet, and how it tackled branding, social media, referrals, and diversity challenges — not to mention recruiting while multiple wars are going on simultaneously.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and mingle with fellow attendees during this networking break between sessions.

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact kevin@ere.net or danielle@ere.net.

This is your chance to hear from recruitment ad agencies and corporate recruiters who’ve run award-winning recruitment ad campaigns. This panel will give you concrete take-aways when it comes to:

—What’s working and what’s not with social media recruiting
—Communications with internal employees aimed at retention or internal mobility
—Global and international advertising
—The use of smart phones/mobile devices in recruiting
—Recruiting campaigns aimed at college students
—Messages showcasing corporate diversity

Panelists will include winners of the Creative Excellence Awards, awarded for the most creative recruitment advertising campaigns.

No set presenter. No set topic. Just get in line and bring up challenges you’d like to address, opinions you’d like to share, or something you’d like to get off your chest. Hundreds of the smartest recruiting professionals we know will give their feedback and try to help. It can involve advice dealing with candidates, vendors, recruiters — or anything else. Just no advertising/promotion.

Enjoy a buffet lunch in the exhibit hall – mingle with other attendees, chat with speakers, and check out the latest and greatest from the recruiting industry’s leading vendors.

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact kevin@ere.net or danielle@ere.net.

Recruitment Process Optimization (not to be confused with Recruitment Process Outsourcing) is, in its simplest form, aligning an organization’s recruitment and hiring processes with its core mission. In order to achieve this, RPOptimization focuses on the core values of the CEO, president, and executive management team and then creates a recruiting and hiring strategy that implements those values so they permeate through every aspect of the process, from search through onboarding and retention. As with anything that is new and ultimately successful, the entire organization needs to be bought in to achieve the desired goals and this ultimately begins with the organization’s leaders.

In this session, executive advisor and talent strategy expert Carol Schultz of Vertical Elevation will provide an overview of the components necessary for a successful implementation of Recruitment Process Optimization. This is a great opportunity to learn about RPOptimization, a new paradigm within talent.

Effective sourcing is critical to recruiting success — but many organizations struggle to achieve high ROI on sourcing efforts. Carmen Hudson, a Yahoo and Starbucks alum, will discuss how companies that “get it” integrate sourcing into the recruiting workflow. She will share how high-performing sourcing teams get results. What are the best practices of successful sourcing teams and sourcing leaders? How are they structured? How do they manage communication and hand-offs? How should sourcing teams be measured? What must be in place to ensure sourcing results, and how can you determine if your sourcing team is set up to be successful? You’ll get answers.

A general rundown of what’s effective, what’s not, and how a job ad IS NOT a job description. In this interactive session, we’ll transform a mediocre ad into something compelling.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and mingle with fellow attendees during this networking break between sessions.

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact kevin@ere.net or danielle@ere.net.

In this interactive session, Matt Lowney will explain why having a vision is vital to the recruiting function. He will work through the creation of your recruiting department’s vision statement, and then show you how to build a plan that sets this vision into action. During this strategy session, he’ll touch upon several aspects of your recruiting plan, including: branding, recruiter competency models, social media, sourcing, scorecards, metrics, candidate experience, and partnership with your operational teams.

Even if you don’t have a strategic approach to social media, you know it is happening in your organization. Pieces are being done without a strategic plan or direction, so develop one now. This session will go through easy steps to develop the plan or redefine the plan you already have to target the talent community through social media. We’ll talk about metrics you can use to judge the success of the program. There’ll be plenty of time to discuss your specific questions around building talent communities through social media.

Sometimes no matter how hard you try, conventional recruiting tactics just don’t produce the results you need them to in the time that business needs allow. For some organizations the result is missed deadlines, astronomical business impact, and growing time-to-hire. In others, the results are wild and wacky solutions that defy convention and produce the results needed. In this informative session with Dr. John Sullivan, you will hear about some of the wild and wacky global solutions to emerge in the last few years and learn why they worked.

ERE Expo Fall 2011 Conference Chair will lead an open discussion session to highlight the conference takeaways before we all head back to our desks!