Onrec and Kennedy Information are joining forces this fall to put on one big conference.
Onrec and Kennedy’s Recruiting Conference and Expo will take place November 3 and 4 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago. The conference, which combines two of the industries most acclaimed companies, could be the must-attend event of the fall. Onrec will bring strong recruiting technological acumen and analytical savvy, while Kennedy will contribute its tactical recruiting expertise and industry insight.
The conference will bring together a unique mix of online recruitment leading thinkers and commentators, as well as human resources practitioners and leading industry suppliers. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear various thoughts on the development growth of the adoption of online recruitment and implementation in the U.S. and globally.
The conference has a long list of speakers lined up, and topics will range in everything from Career Fairs 2.0 to Lessons from the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Utilizing Mobile Communication to Reach Candidates and Engage Employees to Recruiter Attention Deficit Disorder. There also will be two post-conference workshops: Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad and Reference Check 2.0.
The conference will further include The Onrec Awards 2009, which will recognize the best online career Web site, most innovative online recruiters, most innovative college recruiting campaign, most innovative employee referral program and game changing recruiting technology.
Click here to register for the conference.
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July 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Onrec and Kennedy’s recruiting conferences are bound to fail in the long run. These conferences are totally dominated by self-interested vendors and observers of the recruiting and staffing function, not actual practitioners or people who have actually have had to leverage the processes, systems, strategies, that are being discussed. Conferences that are produced primarily as as a medium for vendors and exhibitors to access “selling” to buyers (such as Onrec and Kennedy) will be in the decline. Conferences that are content focused, and are produced with the participant in mind (such as professional organizations, and high-end conference producers like Linkage, CEB, etc.) are gaining in credibility when in comes to the ultimate buyer (corporate HR and recruiting professionals) spending on these costs. As a practitioner, I can tell you that my own circle of professionals in this space have clearly recognized that our limited budgets will no longer support these multiples of conferences…and when it does come to actually going to a conference: content will be king. Having a conference agenda, so totally dominated by people who want to sell to me (selling from the platform is a no-no), will be receiving the thumbs down from me. In the end… watch for further consolidation! PS: ERE…watch out… if your content is so focused speakers who have big brand name companies (google, Microsoft, etc.) even though those speakers are not good presenters or their content is crap…you are at risk too from losing audience.