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Many companies today are talking about the opportunities associated with “Big Data,” but what are they doing about it? This webinar provides answers through first-hand insight on practical innovation approaches to putting today’s data-rich HR environment to work. Donna Quintal, senior manager of strategic sourcing at Sears Holdings Corporation joins Glen Cathey, VP, global sourcing and talent strategy with Randstad Sourceright, to explore how companies and recruiters are exploring vast stores of human data capital, including that found on job sites, social media and other sources, to find, attract, retain, and promote best-in-class employees. 

• How companies can rethink their approach to employee and candidate intelligence?
• Is it time to “tear up the rulebook” on sourcing and recruiting?
• Tactics and strategies for discovering and engaging hidden talent that others just can’t find?
• The transformation of internal recruiting
• Moving forward: areas of opportunity and challenge

Almost everyone agrees that employee referral programs routinely produce high quality hires with longer retention rates. Unfortunately, the typical corporate referral program produces less than half of its potential hires. The reasons for this underperformance can usually be traced to elements in the referral program’s design, and fortunately, most of these design flaws can be easily remedied. In times of high recruiter workload and limited budgets, it’s important for recruiting leaders to realize that modern employee referral programs have proven that they can contribute to over 50% of all hires. Reaching that 50% goal will not only increase the quality of your hires, but by leveraging your employee’s contacts and their peer-to-peer selling ability, you can free up your recruiters and recruiting resources so that they can be focused on your firm’s high impact openings.

This interactive webinar will be led by Dr. John Sullivan, arguably the world’s leading proponent of employer referrals programs (ERP). In this webinar, he will highlight the best practices that have proven to be effective in making referral programs the dominant corporate recruiting source. Important topics that will be covered during this webinar include:

·         Demonstrating the power and effectiveness of referral programs to your executives

·         Improving the volume and the quality of your referrals

·         Factors that hurt ERP performance

·         Understanding the advanced referral approaches that distinguish great programs from average ones

·         How to integrate your social media program with your referral program

·         The benchmark firms to learn from

·         Expanding your referral program to cover college hiring

·         How referral programs can increase diversity

·         The power of proactive referrals

·         Audience questions and concerns

In this webcast, Dr. Charles Handler, president and founder of Rocket-Hire, a vendor neutral assessment consulting firm, shares his proven methodology for developing an assessment strategy and choosing the best vendor to help you execute it.

The value proposition for pre-employment assessment continues to grow as more and more vendors are creating solutions that can have an immediate impact on important business outcomes.

Unfortunately, many firms are leaving money on the table because they either decide assessment is too complicated and avoid it altogether, or because they choose vendors who do not provide a solution that is optimized for their specific needs.

Making the most of the value proposition for assessment can be hard because:

• Assessment is a complex topic and understanding it can be confusing.
• There are literally hundreds of assessment vendors and it is hard to tell which ones are good and how they differ from one another.
• Despite what your vendor may say – Not every assessment strategy is effective in every situation.

Topics covered include:

• Developing an effective assessment strategy
• Building a process instead of just slinging tests
• How to identify key parameters that will define success for your organization
• How to cut through the BS when dealing with vendors
• A methodology for assessment vendor selection
• Key resources available for understanding the assessment marketplace

Recruiting teams are leaner than ever before so what do you do when you get hit with a big, unexpected urgent hiring request? It’s a question many recruiting teams are now dealing with as companies are growing again. Join Matt Grove, Principal Consultant at Recruiting Toolbox and former Recruiting and Sourcing Leader with KPMG, as he shares his insights from years of urgent staffing in professional services.

This session will help you plan and execute a strategy for ramping up quickly without sacrificing quality, even under difficult conditions. Matt will share what he has learned from real-world experience including surprises that occurred along the way. He’ll talk about what to do, how to do it, and offer a blueprint that you can use successfully in your own organization.

Not social media, not job board advertising or writing InMails, but true market mapping, cold call headhunting. When we measure up direct sourcing (social media, job boards), agency recruiting, and executive search firm recruiting against each other, where do we get maximum return? This session aims to outline a model that graphically illustrates to the internal budget holders why they should be investing in real internal headhunters, along with a step-by-step guide to planning an internal headhunt strategy.

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As the sourcing function becomes increasingly competitive, many in the profession are looking for ways to add value to their staffing organizations. Join us on February 27, 2013 as netPolarity Sourcing Manager and MARS Head Trainer Mark Tortorici goes over the state of the sourcing function and what sourcers need to know to be on top of their game for 2013.

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Despite the economic climate over the last several years, the war for top talent continues to be highly competitive. As a result, the need to focus on candidates earlier in their academic life cycle has become increasingly important. In this webinar, Laurie Brady and Barbara Nee, two leaders within Ernst & Young’s Campus Recruiting Center of Excellence, will share their strategies on how to attract young talent prior to the internship recruiting process. Topics such as competing in the market place, driving brand awareness, building preference and developing relationships will be addressed.

In this webinar you will learn:

• Why early identification is critical to success
• How to garner leadership support for early identification initiatives
• How to build an early identification program
• How early identification can increase your market leadership position

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This webinar will focus on building successful high volume recruitment processes for sales hiring. By taking advantage of the best practices developed by one of the nation’s premier sales recruiting firms, attendees will gain valuable knowledge on how to hire better sales talent faster.

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• Are you an HR or Recruiting Manager looking to hire a corporate recruiter?
• Are you a corporate recruiter looking for insights to help you nail that interview for a better job?

Join John Vlastelica, Managing Director at Recruiting Toolbox and former Recruiting Director with Amazon and Expedia, as he shares some best practice techniques for interviewing and selecting great corporate recruiters.

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In 2012, if you haven’t established a social media presence, it’s a given that you will fall behind your competitors. However, it can be a challenge to decide which tools and strategies will work best for your social enterprise. Ultimately, tools are just a means to an end and it’s about the people.

Join us for this informative webinar with George LeBrun as we take a close look at social media and how it effects your organization. From developing a brand, to recruiting, to establishing social learning and community efforts, social media can be incorporated into every aspect of your business.

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Have you heard the nasty rumor that the good old days of recruitment namely cold calling, role-playing and posting to job boards to garner candidates is a thing of the past? Well it is true and social media is the present and the future. Do you know that every time you post a job that you are not just representing your company- you represent a brand. That brand is most often your company’s brand, but what about your personal value proposition as a recruiter? Who are you as a recruiter and why should candidates line up to work with you? That’s where your “Recruiter Brand” comes in.

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Join Chris Havrilla and Ben Gotkin, Principal Consultants at Recruiting Toolbox and former Recruiting Leaders at organizations including Hitachi, Marriott, and McGladrey, as they outline the 3 biggest mistakes organizations make when trying to make recruiting technology work, and then walk through specific techniques for avoiding these mistakes and pulling off a successful evaluation and implementation.

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Hired and fired! It’s the revolving door of hiring salespeople and firing them 90 days later for poor performance. It’s as if there is an affliction turning rock star sellers into bumbling fools during their first three months with companies.

You loved them in the interview, but somehow they flopped on your team. Many sales leaders and business executives point their fingers at the sales people for failing to deliver on expectations. However, those fingers should be pointed at the executives if a structured salesperson onboarding program is not in place.

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Everyone thinks Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn when we say “social media,” completely forgetting that user groups have not only been around a lot longer than these communities, but that they are more useful than ever to recruiters, especially when sourcing for very specialized skillsets.

While recruiters still use these online communities in their search efforts, many don’t go beyond hope and pray — post requirements and pray for replies — with disappointing results.

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A Nucleus Research analytics study found that business analytics applications returned $10 for every $1 spent. Can your analytics show this much ROI? Are you even making your decisions based on solid data, or are you guessing and leaving money on the table?

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According to the latest industry report from TrainingMag.com, total expenditures in training are on the rise. The amount spent on training jumped about 13% from 2010, including increases in overall training budgets and payroll, and spending on outside products and services.

With organizations spending more toward training, it only makes sense they will want to know how to create more engagement and learning retention (aka “value”) within training programs. And an important and exciting emerging component is social learning.

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Mark and Gerry plan to share their data from earlier this year and their thoughts about the last 10 years they’ve been asking a biased sample of companies for their data. A little story-telling, a little learning and a few recommendations on how you can improve what you do in the future (unvarnished by any hidden agenda). We’ll leave plenty of time for open debate, critical questions and differences of opinion. Join us for a great hour. Bring it on.

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In this session, Brenan German, Managing Principal, Bright Talent Resources, Inc., a boutique Talent Acquisition Advisory and Recruiting Services firm, will discuss the basic principles of Workforce Planning and demonstrate tactical exercises to develop a Workforce Plan. A former Fortune 500 Talent Acquisition leader with nearly 20 years of experience, Brenan will share what he learned from his corporate experiences and consulting projects.

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Baseball is like recruiting. Every seasoned expert knows how to achieve success and can easily spot the obvious traits of great performers. Or do they? Moneyball, the Michael Lewis bestseller and Brad Pitt film, shows that the experts do get it wrong – or, at least, there are better, more reliable ways to learn and understand the secrets of success. Put most simply: look at the facts.

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How can a successful onboarding program improve productivity? What do organizations need to consider in order to build and to sustain this program? This webinar, based on research conducted in March and April 2012, will shed light on these critical questions and help organizations start to think strategically about linking onboarding to ongoing organizational performance.

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