The SHRM conference is over. Mark and I drove back to NJ from DC today, after Mark's last presentation- only to find that the water here in NJ is as much a problem as it was in Washington.

 

Several loose ends to tie up. Among them:

 

- After a bit of debate (37 sites initially surfaced as "outstanding" based on our criteria) Mark and I agreed on the 25 sites whose staffing pages (among the Fortune 500 Company list) offer the best candidate experience (i.e. Target, Engage, Inform and Respect) and presented them on Monday in my session on Talent Pipelines..

 

The top company sites we congratulate for their effort and accomplishment are: Agilent, Bank of America, Bell South, C. H. Robinson, Capital One, Federated, Ford, GE, General Mills, Goldman Sachs, HCA, Intel, Kodak, Lilly, Merck, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Proctor & Gamble, Sherwin Williams, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Target, Texas Instruments, Whirlpool, and Xerox.

 

- I also discussed during Monday's presentation the details about how our 2006 mystery shoppers were received by the Fortune 100 Best Companies in America to Work For. Peter Clayton, landed.fm, interviewed me about the project just last week and published a podcast about the mystery shoppers at http://www.landed.fm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=88. Unfortunately, it will be at least a month before I can realistically finish the whitepaper..just too much data to integrate.

 

- Coincidentally, Dr. Peter Cappelli, a well known speaker in the staffing space and a Wharton professor,  was writen up in the Conference Daily on Tuesday. Apparently with SHRM, Peter invited the heads of HR for the Fortune 100 Best companies in America to Work For list to come to the conference and share during an all day meeting their best practices on recruiting and retention with Peter facilitating the discussion. That was one session I wish I were a fly on the wall.

 

- SHRM also announced and honored another list at the conference - the 50 Best Small Companies to Work For. I may have to find a way to include them even after the fact. 

 

- Tomorrow I'll finish scanning in the cards of the folks I've met over the last week and hopefully get out a few notes before moving on. It looks like a busy Summer.

 

 

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