ERE - Spring 2017

What will next year look like for work, recruiting, technology, and corporate life?

Futurist Kevin Wheeler will explore a number of key trends including:

• The power of AI as it permeates everything recruiters do
• The impact of global talent supply chains
• Emerging collaborations of workers
• The continued growth of the gig economy, and its impact on recruiting

He will discuss the rise of megacities and share insights as to what that means for work, and how predictive analytics offers great promise and peril.

You will not want to miss this fascinating and eye-opening discussion in which you will leave better prepared for what's to come.

The universe is working against us every day, trying to lower our hiring bar, as we have new people hiring new people, and desperate hiring managers trying to get their roles filled quickly.

John Vlastelica is a former recruiting director turned consultant and trainer who will walk attendees through three approaches companies are taking to set and maintain a high hiring bar.

Who should attend?

All-in-one Recruiters, Recruiting team leaders, directors and above.

What will be covered

1. Learn the mechanisms and processes companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber, and others are using. 
2. Learn how to drive alignment with programs like hiring committees (vs. hiring managers), bar raisers, and pipeline interviewing models to drive consistently high quality hiring. 
3. The new programs and processes you might consider as you play a talent advisor role with your business leaders and recommend new ways to keep the bar high.

What this is NOT

This is not a session on behavioral interviewing or competency-based interviewing.

Quite often, long time-to-fill can be traced to problems in the selection process.

Speeding up selection requires tackling all of these problems, including changing the mindsets of everyone involved in hiring.

What to expect

Join Scott Wintrip, author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant, as he explores the underlying issues that slow down fast hiring.

He’ll highlight the latest data including how hiring delays are impacting key metrics. Then, he’ll share the counterproductive mindsets that are undermining the selection process.

You’ll leave this session with key insights and concrete steps on how to counter these mindsets in your own organization.

In a global study by LinkedIn and Imperative, recruiting was identified as the profession for which “purpose” is the most closely tied to job satisfaction. Aaron Hurst, author of the Purpose Economy and founder of Imperative and the Taproot Foundation, shares why purpose is so critical to success for people working in recruiting and how to approach our work to maximize our fulfillment and success.

The way people want to work is changing.

They’re socially connected, mobile, and expect the same “on demand” access they have in their personal life at work. Most HR departments and TA functions aren’t equipped to handle that – Cisco’s certainly wasn’t.  But HR teams have to adapt in order to attract and retain the workforce of tomorrow.  And many of them have to do it within the reality of a shrinking HR budget.

What to expect

Kevin Blair from Cisco will share how Cisco was able to reimagine and rebuild its approach to Talent Acquisition by shifting from simply filling requisitions to taking a strategic and high touch direction.

Be sure to attend this session and learn the changes that took place, the lessons learned, and the outcome of the new approach at Cisco.

Who should attend

TA leaders and managers who want to change and adopt to the new way people want to work.

First, get a glimpse at ERE’s proprietary research about the current state of the TA field. Then, Brenan German, president of Bright Talent Resources and a former Fortune 500 HR Leader, moderates an all-star panel that'll give you specific takeaways to improve your own company’s department. Included: Rob McIntosh, who has led talent acquisition at McKesson and elsewhere; Amazon North American Retail TA leader Kelly Cartwright; Takeda (a very large Japanese pharma) leader Mike Demirjian; and Nate Ollestad, of the hot Austin company Duo Security.