ERE Expo Fall 2008, Hollywood Florida October 28th - 30th

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.

Tuesday, October 28th 10:00AM - 1:00PM

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B
Passive Candidates for Busy Recruiters

Shally Steckerl
Founder
JOBMACHINE

Glenn Gutmacher
Sr. Researcher
MICROSOFT

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

Critical-sourcing survival skills will be demonstrated by two of the industry’s pre-eminent Internet recruiters in this two-part event (sign up for either or both). Successful recruiters can hardly make time to data-mine the Internet for leads, much less spend hours on end digging through hundreds of search results. With all of today’s online resources and tactics, it has become even more difficult just to navigate what’s available to you and figure out where to start. As time demands grow and competition stiffens, recruiters need to increase efficiency in their daily activities to remain competitive. To ensure your job is not outsourced, learn how to best use sourcing technology and productivity tools to get the most out of your day. Free up your time to close candidates and add value.

Passive Candidates for Busy Recruiters:

In this half-day lab, you’ll see how to easily source passive candidates for your open requisitions in just 10 minutes per search. Stop wasting time with complex Internet search techniques that take months to master and days to execute. Bring your toughest requisitions and your laptop and we’ll get online together to solve real-life challenges you’re facing and build a pipeline of leads in class. During this practical hands-on lab, busy recruiters will learn where to start and how to apply the quickest sourcing methods for any kind of requirement. Become an expert in several techniques you can use to generate leads daily without disrupting your busy day including:

• Easy-to-use search engine commands that quickly reveal hidden leads
• Source from dozens of Web 2.0 and "new media" resources
• Get results from LinkedIn in ways you never even thought possible
• Let your research work for you with simple automation techniques

Tuesday, October 28th 2:00PM - 5:00PM

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP E
Master Level Sourcing

Shally Steckerl
Founder
JOBMACHINE

Glenn Gutmacher
Sr. Researcher
MICROSOFT

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

Critical-sourcing survival skills will be demonstrated by two of the industry’s pre-eminent Internet recruiters in this two-part event (sign up for either or both). Successful recruiters can hardly make time to data-mine the Internet for leads, much less spend hours on end digging through hundreds of search results. With all of today’s online resources and tactics, it has become even more difficult just to navigate what’s available to you and figure out where to start. As time demands grow and competition stiffens, recruiters need to increase efficiency in their daily activities to remain competitive. To ensure your job is not outsourced, learn how to best use sourcing technology and productivity tools to get the most out of your day. Free up your time to close candidates and add value.

Master Level Sourcing

Ready to be blown away? Join Glenn and Shally to elevate your sourcing skills to new heights. If you think you have mastered sourcing with nothing left to learn, you will be shocked and amazed at how much more these two experts will reveal. In this course, designed for the seasoned professional researcher, you’ll learn techniques that will allow you to penetrate traditional sources deeper and faster than ever before. Join Glenn and Shally as they explore the new frontiers of Internet research including:

• Using regular expressions with search engines like Exalead and Google Scholar
• New search engines that revive search commands like NEAR and linkdomain: in ways you have never seen before
• Elegant yet simple negative search terms to remove the spam and garbage from search engine results
• Master the art of search-jutsu with little understood, yet easily applied, field search syntax
• Multi-window bookmarklets that bring up search-specific results from various channels in just a few keystrokes to ensure you don’t skip relevant sources.   

Wednesday, October 29th 2:15 PM  - 3:30PM

Effective Sourcing Tactics for Latin America

Shally Steckerl
Founder
JOBMACHINE

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

The world is shrinking. To stay competitive, recruiters must be able to recruit globally as well as they do domestically, but few “standard” techniques apply successfully overseas. Learn to engage people in Latin American countries where the Internet may not be widely used, and where traditional approaches are not as effective. Explore different approaches used to solve the unique problems presented by Internet recruiting, sourcing, and research for Latin Americans:

• Apply modern sourcing techniques to Latin American recruitment
• Leverage Top Level Domains, ISPs and Country Codes
• Find “currículum vitaes” only from Latin American countries
• Get only local results from search engines
• Quickly translate pages written in Spanish and Portuguese for free
• Avoid cross-cultural sensitivity issues and learn how local customs and idiosyncrasies greatly impact your strategy
• Assess your current global staffing structure and develop recruiting strategies for each of the Latin American regions

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