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The Nation's Leading Talent Acquisition Conference

Main Conference: May 10-11 | Workshops: May 9 | Nashville, TN

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Does your recruiting program have what it takes to beat out the competition for top talent? RecruitCon 2018 will arm you with the tools and tactics you need to keep up with new trends, streamline hiring processes, sharpen interview skills, improve onboarding, and more!

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  • How you can leverage algorithms over resumes to find the best match for your organization
  • What unique benefits top companies are rolling out to attract (and keep) great talent
  • How to prepare for the legal and managerial challenges of the ‘Human Cloud’—a more temporary and mobile workforce
  • How to build a recruiting operating system that really scales
  • Which new compliance imperatives will impact your talent acquisition policies
  • How to ramp up your recruiting initiatives on a budget
  • How to integrate video interviewing to completely revolutionize your hiring process
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2018

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Thank You to Our Sponsors

With short, customized recruitment videos spotlighting career opportunities and corporate culture, Digi-Me delivers information to candidates in a way that is easy to share on social, taking opportunities viral. Our professional-quality solution includes cloud-based tracking technology for real-time reporting on candidate behavior, as well as automatic integration into your ATS. Learn More

A complete candidate sourcing solution
Build your employer brand with up-to-date careers pages. Post jobs and advertise on the best free and premium job boards. Source passive candidates faster, with Workable’s integrated sourcing tool. Learn more

Fairygodboss helps women get hard-to-ask questions answered. We help you get the inside scoop on pay, corporate culture, benefits and work flexibility. We offer company ratings, job listings, discussion boards and career advice.

Driven by a passion to help companies win the war for talent, iCIMS is proud to offer leading software solutions and tools to unify all aspects of talent acquisition. With iCIMS, companies can manage their entire talent acquisition lifecycle within a single SaaS application. Our focus on user-friendly technology and an exceptional customer experience has made us the largest standalone provider in the industry.  Learn more

Equifax is a global information solutions company that uses unique data, innovative analytics, technology and industry expertise to power organizations and individuals around the world by transforming knowledge into insights that help make more informed business and personal decisions. Learn more.

Disability Solutions at Ability Beyond is a national, non-profit consulting practice working with corporate leaders to leverage the engagement talented jobseekers with disabilities – solving a workforce challenge where everyone wins. Learn more.

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2018 Program Agenda

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May 9, 2018 | Preconference Learning Opportunities

8:30 am – 9:30 am Registration & Breakfast
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9:30 am – 12:30 pm Preconference Workshop (AM)
Growing Your Online Presence: How to Build Out Your Social Media Recruiting Strategy
  Presented by Kristin Dudley, Co-Create, LLC

Job hunting is different today than it was 20 years ago. Today, it’s less about money and more about the ‘experience’. In a study done by Better Team, 59% of job seekers chose to accept an offer based on the company’s social media presence. However, having a successful social media presence isn’t as easy as it sounds. Many recruiters make the mistake of simply posting their job openings online and check off the ‘social recruiting’ box, but there’s more to it than that.

There’s more to social media than just promoting your message, it’s a place to engage and interact with the community around you. This interactive workshop will give you the skills and strategies that you need to start building a social profile that has an impact on the community and your future employees.

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2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Preconference Workshop (PM)
Sourcing and Interviewing Do’s and Don’ts to Help You Identify Ideal Candidates While Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
  Presented by Kara E Shea, Butler Snow, LLP

Facebook currently provides a tool that allow companies to filter out certain demographics when advertising open jobs. For instance, The New York Times reported that Verizon, when recruiting for financial planning and analysis positions, recently ran a promotion targeting Facebook feeds for users between the ages of 25 and 36 who lived within a specified region. The Times reported that hundreds of millions of Facebook users, many of whom are likely over the age of 40, weren’t aware the ad existed because it hadn’t been delivered to them. The article noted, too, that companies like UPS, Target, and State Farm all have targeted their recruitment ads as part of a comprehensive recruitment strategy to cast a net across all ages. But, do such practices run afoul to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)? Your company could be at considerable risk for high-priced jury verdicts and settlements in the event you’re sued for these or other allegedly discriminatory sourcing practices. And, that’s just the tip of the iceberg because there are a host of legal issues that could arise once you call in a candidate to interview.

You must make sure you are asking the right questions to ensure that you are abiding by applicable legal requirements and that every candidate is given a fair and equal opportunity while also steering clear of questioning that oversteps and violates job candidates’ rights under the ADEA, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and other federal laws concerning equal pay and more. During this intensive workshop you’ll learn legal ways to source and interview job candidates, including what questions you can and cannot ask and which of your current sourcing practices may be exposing your company to legal risks. Plus. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in role-playing exercises and conduct mock interviews to get hands-on training on the legal do’s and don’ts of sourcing and interviewing.

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May 10, 2018 | Conference Day 1

7:00 am – 8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:05 am Opening Remarks
8:05 am – 9:05 am Opening Keynote: If They Don’t Trust You They Won’t Give You the Time of Day: Steps to Unleash Your Influence and Engage Those Who Matter to You
  Presented by John Hall, Influence & Co.

It’s vital to differentiate your brand within your space. John Hall, author of “Top of Mind,” will discuss the ways you can naturally build trust with your audience, as well as the steps for ensuring that your influence is long lasting. After all, to attract the best talent in a competitive world, you need to do everything you can to be top of mind at the right moments.

9:15 am – 10:15 am General Session
Outlook on the 2025 Workplace: How to Attract the Next Generation of Talent by Effectively Recruiting Millennials and Gen Z
  Presented by Susan Vitale, iCIMS

Millennials and Gen Z’ers have a reputation for being complicated and needy. Whether this is true or not, by the year 2025, Millennials will make up 55% of the workforce and Gen Z will have been in the workforce for nearly 7 years! Recruiters and talent acquisition teams need to be more in tune with how to attract and retain these key demographics. Packed with case studies of enterprise employers from around the globe and research conducted by iCIMS, this session will give insight into the newest tactics for attracting millennials and Gen Z’ers to your company, keeping them, improving your employer brand, and increasing your employee referrals.

10:15 am Exhibits Open
10:15 am – 10:30 am Networking, Exhibits & Refreshment Break
10:30 am – 12:30 pm Intensive Workshop
How to Effectively Use Photos and Videos to Create Visual Job Postings with the ‘Wow Factor’ to Attract Talent
  Presented by Elena Valentine, Skill Scout, Inc.

Visualize your current job postings for a second. Are they long text documents listing the 20 or 30 beneficial traits or skills you want in a candidate? Maybe you’ve got a few paragraphs, some bullet points, and some required EEOC language. But, there’s a better way! Learn a step-by-step process on how to bring your job post to the next level to attract talent in the competitive market! Using photos and video to upgrade your job postings, you can improve your company’s image and entice qualified candidates who will be eager to work with you—and this intensive workshop will show you how.

12:30 am – 1:30 pm Lunch & Learn Sponsored by: Fairygodboss
Answering the Question on Every Female Jobseeker’s Mind
Presented by: Karen Eisengruber, Fairygodboss

Most employers today understand the importance of diversity, yet many still struggle to attract and retain women in their workforces. Fairygodboss — a career marketplace and community of millions of professional, ambitious women — is in a unique position to identify the differences between how men and women search for their next job. Join Fairygodboss Head of Customer Success Karen Eisengruber for a Lunch & Learn to help your company identify how to retain women in the workforce, understand how prospective female employees are looking for their next job, and, most importantly, how that impacts your bottom line.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

Workshop | The Rise of Remote—How to Attract, Retain, Engage, and Manage the Distributed Teleworkforce Social Media and Mobile Recruiting: New Trends Every Employer Should be Leveraging

Presented by Paul Slezak, RecruitLoop

The war for talent has reached new heights. The economy is back up, there are jobs to be filled, but it seems as though there’s no one around to fill them. The realization that hiring managers and talent acquisition teams need to come to is that the best talent may not be willing or able to come to their offices. Fortunately, with the advances in technology, the best talent potentially can be found anywhere in the world. This session will walk you through how to find, attract, retain, engage and manage a remote and distributed workforce.

Presented by Lindsay Stanton, DigiMe

With so much online clutter these days, it’s a challenge to find top talent, and for hard-to-fill roles, it’s nearly impossible. Social media is a cost-effective solution that not only gives your recruiters the potency to go viral, but also gives them the ability to target demographics such as location and industry focus. Video on social media has now overrun traditional static content, and worldwide marketing professionals agree that video is the type of content with the best ROI. Digital technology also offers the ability to track your efforts, so you know how and where to target your audience. HR can now see exactly where their job postings are receiving the most attention, and whether that attention is converting well into applications. With social media, mobile devices, video and tracking, you are no longer looking for a needle in a haystack. You have a bow and arrow that is aiming for bullseye.

2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Networking, Exhibits & Refreshment Break
2:50 pm – 3:50 pm Concurrent Sessions

Workshop | Experience is Everything: How to Treat Candidates Like Customers to Close the Deal Conflict vs. Collaboration: How to Smooth the Waters Between HR and Marketing
Presented by Leslie Mason and Gail Houston, Intuit

“Candidate Experience”—two words that are ingrained into every recruiter’s brain. But, if you really take a deep look into your organization’s candidate experience, can you say with complete confidence you’ve made it the best you can?  The individual aspects of candidate experience are really very simple but it’s your take on them and how you make them work together that will bring it from a B to an A+! This session will show you how to develop a top-notch candidate experience model that will have the rock-stars knocking on your door.

Presented by Pamela J Green, The HR Coaching and Career Institute, Inc.

At first glance, you may think that the talent acquisition team only has to get along with the hiring managers. However, an intricate part of the hiring process comes from the marketing department. Unfortunately, all too often there is a standoff between marketing and recruiting. This session will show you how to work with marketing to make your job posting more effective, and to make sure it’s seen by all great candidates.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm General Session
Tech Talk: Case Study on How to Master Machines for Next-Level Recruiting
  Presented by: Rob Long, Workable

The latest technologies, such as machine learning can augment a recruiter’s function. Understanding how this works is key for strategic HR professionals. It’s also crucial for companies that want to remain at the cutting edge and maintain high performing, competitive, recruitment strategies.

Come and find out how Workable uses data science, machine learning, and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) expertise to train the world’s best recruiters. Machines can free up recruitment and HR teams to focus on the most important part of their jobs—people to people interactions—and this session will show you how.

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Networking Reception

May 11, 2018 | Conference Day 2

7:00 am – 8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
7:15 am – 7:30 am Breakfast & Learn: Interactive Demo of Award-Winning BLR Solutions
8:00 am – 9:00 am Opening Keynote: You DON’T Have an Engagement Issue, You Have a HIRING Problem
Presented by Bob Kelleher, Employee Engagement Group

Companies and managers tend to hire based on education, experience, or skill, but they often overlook the more important behaviors and traits that define an organizational culture. The end result is often voluntary turnover and a disconnect between hiring systems and long-term employee engagement. Day 2 opens with Bob Kelleher, best-selling author and global speaker, revealing the importance of building your employer value proposition (EVP) by connecting your hiring practices to your culture. After all, engagement comes from hiring employees who will thrive in an organization’s unique environment.

You’ll learn:

  • How best to link the organization’s interview and selection process to your unique culture
  • Steps to shift to a behavioral-based interview process that can yield tremendous results
  • How to hire for your organization’s culture
  • The benefits of expanding key job competencies to include unique behaviors and traits that define the culture
  • How to evaluate your current hiring practices to determine whether they’re helping or hurting your chances of long-term employee engagement success
9:10 am – 10:10 am Concurrent Sessions
 

 

 

 

Recruit Like a Private Investigator: Using Social Profiles and Other Tools to Track Down the Most Valuable Candidate Information College Recruiting: Best Practices for Establishing Partnerships with University Career Services and Recruiting New Grads
Presented by Mark Tortorici, Transform Talent Acquisition

Have you ever been in a situation where you find a snippet of someone’s profile on a job board or LinkedIn so think they’re PERFECT for the job? You’ve found the elusive Purple Squirrel! But wait, their contact information is blacked out, or you need X-ray vision to see anything helpful on that LinkedIn profile—most likely because they are not actively looking for a new opportunity. This session will show you tools and strategies to finding the valuable information you need about a person armed with only a name and Internet access so you can actually make contact.

Presented by Chris Fitzpatrick, Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Did you know that every spring your potential pool of candidates grows by 1.8 million people? Recent college graduates’ eagerness to learn gives you the opportunity to help them develop into high-quality employees who are in it for the long haul. This session will help you design strategies to reach the best and brightest candidates just coming into the job market.

10:10 am – 10:35 am Networking, Exhibits & Refreshments Break
10:35 am – 11:35 am General Session
Artificial Intelligence Is Not a Threat to Your Job: How to Harness the Power of Evolving Technology to Make Your Recruiting Life Way Easier
  Presented by: Chris Comrie, Recruiting Leaders Academy 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here and in full force. Some may worry that “artificial assistants” will take recruiters’ jobs, but the fact is recruiters shouldn’t fear this form of constantly evolving intelligent technology—they should embrace it!  This session will focus on common misconceptions about how AI threatens a recruiter’s job as we know it –and how AI can really be used to a recruiter’s strategic advantage. You’ll get actionable tips on how AI can enhance your contributions, turning them into even more valuable assets for your company or your clients. Plus, you’ll gain insight into cutting-edge tools that the best recruiters, sourcers, talent acquisition professionals, consultants, and CHROs use on a daily basis, and how to determine which AI tools are right for you. This “must-see” talk is practical and fun for the newest recruiters and seasoned professionals alike.

You’ll learn:

  • How AI is being used to identify the best candidate prospects, streamline the communication process during the application cycle, and much more
  • Examples of how emerging AI-based tools can be used to free up recruiters from mundane, transactional tasks—so you can better focus on closing the deal
  • How the AI recruiting tools of today may impact your recruiting strategy of tomorrow
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

Workshop
Creating Compelling Candidate Communications to Double Your Candidate Email Response Rates
Candidate Poaching: When It’s Smart—and Legal—and When to Steer Clear
Presented by Angie Verros, Vaia Talent

Have you ever wondered why candidates ignore your emails? Why you send out over 100 emails a day to potential candidates only to get responses like, “Not interested” or “Take me off your list.” And, that’s not including the 95 (or so) percent of recipients who delete without reading at all. With higher demand and advances in technology, we’ve seemed to leave out the personal touch of recruiting. This session will give you the hands-on practice you need to create compelling messages that get the types of responses you’re looking for in the first place.

Presented by David L. Johnson, Butler Snow, LLP

By now we all know that the best candidates aren’t necessarily “in the job market.” In fact, only 12 percent are actively looking for a new job. However, according to a Talent Trends study by LinkedIn, 73 percent of your candidate pool is currently employed but open to hearing about new opportunities., You still must proceed with caution because most passive candidates are hard to get ahold of, and when you finally do make contact, you’ve got one chance to make your elevator pitch—and it had better be a good one.  This session will discuss the do’s and don’ts of candidate poaching and strategies for implementing this effective sourcing technique. This session will discuss the do’s and don’ts of candidate poaching and strategies to mitigate the risk of litigation.

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

Workshop
Employer Branding: 8 Secrets to Crafting a Powerful Company Message for Recruiting and Retention
Making Diversity a Top Priority: Why Hiring a Diverse Workforce Can Help Make Your Business and Teams More Successful—and How to Do It
Presented by James Ellis, Host of The Talent Cast

Employer branding is one of those hot topics that’s been buzzing around for the last couple of years. And with good reason, especially at hiring is getting harder and harder. As with anything, however, a good brand message is only effective if people know about it. This workshop will teach you the latest technologies and social trends to spread word of your stellar employer brand to the right people.

Presented by Marlin Smith, Mandrake HR Consulting

American entrepreneur Malcolm Forbes once said, “Diversity [is the] art of thinking independently together.” Businesses and teams are most successful when multiple ideas and strategies are brought to the table. As social pressures drive companies to create a more inclusive workforce, many companies set high expectations for diversity recruitment but fail due to execute it properly. From creating job postings that are strategically designed to attract a diverse pool of applicants to recognizing your personal unconscious biases, this session will guide you through best practices for creating a successful recruiting plan that addresses diversity and inclusion.

2:50 pm – 3:50 pm General Session
We’re All in This Together: How to Win Over Your Hiring Managers
  Presented by Mack Munro, Boss Builders

Recruiting is all about relationships – your relationships with candidates and especially your relationships with your hiring managers, which can make or break your recruiting success. RecruitCon 2018 closes with an eye-opening look at how to earn your hiring managers’ respect and successfully team up to create an open stream of communication that helps you change their perception of recruiters as “order takers” for their talent wish lists.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Drill down to reveal what the hiring manager is really looking for in a candidate
  • Work together to fill positions with smart communication tactics to get the job done
  • Set deadlines to keep the hiring process going smoothly
  • Help a hiring manager make a decision
  • Work through interpersonal issues with a difficult hiring manager so you can meet your overall goals
3:50 pm – 3:55 pm Closing Remarks
3:55 pm Conference Adjourns

Venue and Accommodations

Venue Details

Hilton Nashville Downtown
121 Fourth Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37201
615-620-1000

Due to high-demand, the Hilton Nashville Downtown rooms have sold out. However, we have reserved a room block at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown and only 0.2 miles from our host venue, please see booking page for details.

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The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

BLR is a recognized provider of recertification credits.  HR Certification Institute® pre-approved this program for up to 13.0 HR (General) credit towards aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification (and up to 18.5 general credit hours if you attend two pre-conference workshops). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.

Business & Legal Resources (BLR) is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 13.0 PDCs (18.5 hours total if you attend two pre-cons) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the SHRM Certification website at www.shrm.org/certification

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