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Conference Overview

Recruiting. Talent management. Process improvement. The incomparable recruiting conference that delivers it all.

ERE Expo 2008 Fall is heating up Hollywood Beach! The popular ERE Expo returns to the powdery beaches of South Florida on October 28, 2008, for two overflowing days of action-packed networking and learning.

Join us as we explore a broad range of the most recent and relevant issues affecting the global recruiting industry. This year's conference will address the evolution of the many sectors of recruiting -- the new business models and technologies characterizing the recruiting space, and the social, political, and economic factors driving change in our industry. All this and much more at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa, a hotel experience truly in a class all its own.

Hear Expert Speakers, Cruise the Tradeshow Floor, and Network with Your Peers

If you're not in Hollywood Beach, Florida, you're not on top of today's most pressing issues that affect the global recruiting industry. Come prepared to learn strategic talent-management techniques at the Expo's game-changing educational workshops and lively breakout sessions. Absorb the latest trends on managing relationships with hiring managers, aggressive recruiting, recruitment process outsourcing, and onboarding. Soak up the knowledge and trusted insights from today's leading visionaries.

Roam the lively exhibitor floor that packs the widest array of booths of any industry conference. This exciting and informative conference will showcase market-leading products and solutions on a tradeshow floor brimming with the most innovative tools, newest technologies, and of course, all the latest industry buzz. Take home tangible skills and a renewed enthusiasm for impacting your company's bottom line.

Energy to Burn at the Flagship Recruiting Event of the Year

This unparalleled event lets you:

• Exchange ideas and best practices with hundreds of recruitment professionals
• Refine tools and techniques from other companies from across the globe
• Explore new technology solutions and other recruiting products and services
• Network with recruiting leaders from Fortune 500 corporations
• Expand recruitment leadership and strategy
• Trade knowledge with top experts and practitioners in the field of recruiting

With all of these networking opportunities, tradeshow surprises, and first-rate events, don't be the one industry "insider" who gets stuck outside of the action. To add even more value, sign up for one of ERE's amazing pre-conference workshops and increase the return on your investment. Register today to join the best in global recruiting at the ERE Expo 2008 Fall! The Expo starts October 28, 2008 - you simply can't miss it!

Featured Speakers

ERE Expo 2008 Fall sets the industry standard, featuring top corporate practitioners and exciting keynote presenters. These talent visionaries deliver the level of expertise and depth of experience that conference attendees have come to expect from the ERE conference series.

The ERE Expo speakers share the secrets of today's largest corporations and offer first-hand accounts of what these corporations are doing to stay ahead of the recruiting curve. Select from more than 20 cutting-edge sessions and workshops to keep your recruiting skills sharp:

• "Connecting with Candidates: How to Get Them to Talk, How to Listen, How to Click" is an interactive preconference session focused on the critical first minutes of the interview and how to connect with candidates during the interview and beyond. Through a series of exercises, explore strategies for clicking with students, older candidates, senior executives, re-entries, and transitioners.
• "Sourcing Great Candidates: Quick and Effective Tactics for Improving Your Candidate Pipeline" will reveal tactics to help recruiters optimize employee referrals, reach deeper into the labor market to generate leads, conduct initial outreach to these identified leads, and scale the outreach through strategic partnerships with hiring managers and other key constituents.
• "Innovative Staffing Using Cutting-edge Technology" will explain how Web 2.0 applications (i.e., Second Life, LinkedIn, Facebook) are little more than cool toys without the right people putting them to use. However, in the hands of forward-thinking recruiters and hiring managers, these applications become truly useful tools of the trade. This panel of practitioners from well-known firms will share their innovative staffing programs and separate the hype from the reality.
• "Business Intelligence: How Well Do You Know Your Company?" is a dynamic panel discussion that explores why it is valuable for recruiters to know their company inside and out and how to go about it.
• "True Confessions: The Five Smartest and Five Dumbest Things I've Done as a Recruiting Leader" is a spirited session on the best ideas and biggest flops from a leader who orchestrated four recruiting makeovers in the last 10 years. If you are a recruiting leader, hope to be one, or at least work for one, you're sure to have a chuckle or two and leave with real-world tips. Maybe you'll even shift your leadership paradigm a bit.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal to speak at future ERE Expo conferences, please contact Kate Bruener at kate@ere.net.

Who Should Attend

Where else can you spend two days sharing best practices and overcoming challenges with recruiting and HR leaders from around the world? Acquire the secrets to transforming your organization into a world-class, industry-leading employer. Join hundreds of other leaders who share the same goals, including:

• Staffing directors and VPs
• Recruitment managers and senior recruiters
• HR leaders
• Talent management and acquisition professionals
• Directors of diversity, college recruiting, employee referrals, and other talent-related corporate programs
• Technology decision-makers
• Third-party recruiters and staffing professionals
• Sourcing and competitive intelligence specialists

Register Today

The Expo's highly regarded reputation has been built on presenting outstanding speakers, a world-class agenda, and outstanding networking opportunities for recruitment and HR executives from global corporations -- everything you want and need from a recruitment conference.

Help your organization master the hiring challenges it will face in 2009 and beyond! For the price of just a few job postings, you and your coworkers will:

• Meet and learn from leading experts in the field of talent management.
• Network with other top recruiting and HR leaders.
• Discover the latest in recruiting technology and other talent management services.
• Energize your recruiting organization, and help transform your company into a best-of-breed employer!

Register today and join hundreds of recruiting and HR leaders from top corporations in Hollywood Beach, Florida, from October 28 to October 30, 2008.