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recruitDC Spring 2015 Event – May 21, 2015

April 8, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

Join us for the next full day recruitDC conference at the Artisphere in Arlington on Thursday May 21st. This action and content filled day will sharpen your skills and reengerize your career along with expanding your network of recruiting professionals in the Washington DC area. This is a “not to be missed” event!
Tickets: http://bit.ly/1NOhJk9

Opening Keynote Presentation – How the Pursuit of the Sophisticated Job Seeker Can Re-enegerize Your Recruiting Career, JT O’Donnell, Founder & CEO of CAREEREALISM and CareerHMO.

In this session, J.T. O’Donnell will share how the emerging “sophisticated job seeker” can actually help recruiters feel more inspired in their jobs. Today’s top talent is approaching their careers differently – and that’s good news for recruiters who are feeling burnt out by the current process. Learn tips for engaging these candidates in ways that will excite you and remind you just how important (and fun!) your job can be. Good chats among defense recruiters

Morning Break Out Sessions: Choose from one of three sessions.

Employee Referral Programs: What Pays Off?  

Most companies rely on employee referrals as a primary source of quality hires.  Innovative and progressive companies are changing the referral game by adopting two top trends in referral programs. These trends were uncovered in the 2014 Meritage Talent Solutions’ Referral Trends Report.  In this session, you will learn about these top trends, the technologies available in the marketplace that can help you implement these trends, and the future of referral programs.   You will also receive valuable program benchmarking data.

Presenter: Kara Yarnot, President and Founder, Meritage Talent Solutions

OR

Wax On, Wax Off – Finding Balance as a Recruiter and a Real Person

Daniel LaRusso didn’t become the 1984 All Valley Karate Champion without learning a few lessons from Mr. Miyagi along the way.  The most important of those lessons was finding balance – in his training, school and with his relationships.   Sourcing, interviewing, scheduling, dealing with hiring managers, compliance reporting, spin class, book club, soccer practice and piano lessons for the kids…maybe even some sanity time for yourself.  Fitting it all into a week and finding balance as a recruiter can be a challenge.  This interactive panel will include tips, tricks and daily hacks to  increase efficiency in your work day, leaving more time to find balance in your relationships, for yourself, and outside interests.  Bonzai!

Moderator: Ian Jones, President and Senior Recruiter, Fluidhire

OR

How To Develop a Sourcing Playbook (and Execute It Effectively)

In this interactive session, you will learn the following: Step-by-step instructions for building your own custom sourcing playbook; key lessons, best practices and fundamentals for sourcing the open web; uncover market research and competitive intelligence utilizing a variety of sources; find hidden passive talent scouring search engines, blogs and online groups; drive more traffic to your job postings; build a search library to reuse over and over again; see a long list of emerging sites and niche communities to add to your sourcing arsenal and find anyone online in minutes.

Presenter: Geoff Peterson, Chief Sourcer, Sourcing SupplyRecruitDC_Web (29 of 60)

 Lunch Keynote Personal Branding: Connecting the Dots Between Your Brand and Theirs, Nando Rodriguez, Head of Employment Branding & Candidate Experience, Horizon Media

Nando Rodriguez will dive into keeping the authentic voice of the recruiter while in alignment with their company’s message in a fun and dynamic session.  He will explore how you can have fun and make your brand pop while still aligning yourself with your company’s brand.

Nando was formally at Ogilvy & Mather infusing his creative work style into their talent brand but just recently made the move over to Horizon Media the largest privately held media agency with $4.7 billion in client investments – where he’ll rock his style amplifying their employer brand through the use of digital and social platforms making Horizon Media “pop” among competitors

Afternoon Break Out Sessions : Choose from one of three sessions

Bring Your Employer Brand to Life — Globally, Locally & Individually -The spotlight on employer brand is getting brighter and brighter. But would it surprise you to hear that 60% of CEOs feel they are accountable for their company’s employer brand? Whereas 60% of HR leaders feel they are accountable? Now is the time to position yourself for driving and supporting your organization’s employer brand efforts.
In this session, Jessica and Shannon will share with you the employer brand big picture–what it is and why it’s important. Based on their extensive work at CEB, GEICO, and Marriott International, these experienced EB pros will provide you with guidance on how to develop your employment value proposition and start your employer brand journey. They will share with you strategies and tactics for bringing your employer brand to life, through global and local campaigns, as well as the actions of your leaders, recruiters, and brand ambassadors. Whether you have dedicated employer brand resources or are just starting to figure things out, this informative and engaging session will provide you with mindful strategies and actionable ideas.

Presenters: Jessica Lee, Senior Director, Global Employer Brand and Communications, Marriott International and Shannon Smedstad, Employment Brand Director, CEB. 

OR

Hardball! Recruiter and Hiring Manager Partnering Lessons

Ever find yourself in a new relationship with a difficult hiring manager? What can you do to transform this into a successful relationship? Let’s open up this topic and hear from seasoned recruiters and how they transformed the relationship from challenging into a true partnership. We will bring behind the scene insight from the hiring manager’s prospective and lessons learned so you can learn to avoid some of the common mistakes and implement a few tricks immediately to help reduce tension to your hiring process. This point- counterpoint discussion will address the situation through shared best practices from seasoned professionals who have hired 100’s of employees into various environments.

Moderator: Dina Flynn, CEO 10Fold Solutions

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Making Yourself Indispensable

Everyone wants to work hard and be valuable to their employer.  But with today’s job security uncertainty, working hard just isn’t enough – you need to be so valuable that you are invaluable.  This is especially true in Human Resources and Recruiting where you can sometimes be viewed as ‘as good as your last placement’.  In this session, Chris Scalia and his guest, Tonia Patt will share their evolution into a trusted advisor and executive, communicate strategies that can assist you in your career growth, and answer questions about becoming invaluable. Regardless of your tenure in the field or tenure at your company, this session will give you excellent insight to help you move the needle and turn ideas into action.

Moderator: Chris Scalia, Vice President, Sector Talent Acquisition Director at Leidos

Closing Keynote You Got This! Tools and Inspiration for the Modern Recruiter Carmen Hudson, Co-Founder, Talent42 and Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox

Google the words “recruiters are”.  Go ahead. Did the autofill results shock you?  Probably not.  We’re not in the most celebrated profession. Ever the optimist, Carmen is convinced that recruiters can turn this around. We have an important job, and for many, our work is the difference between a thriving, successful company and a company in the grips of a deathly downward spiral.  Carmen will spend some time to convince you, cajole you, challenge you, celebrate you and catapult you toward recruiting excellence.  She’ll show you some tools that will help you be more productive, and some best practices and strategies that might make you reconsider how you recruit.

And of course, you will want to make time for the After Party at the Continental Lounge!

Thanks to our Sponsors for making recruitDC possible!

2015 Logo Image Tickets: http://bit.ly/1NOhJk9

 

Filed Under: recruitDC Events Tagged With: Conference, recruitDC, recruiting, sourcing

The Week In Recruiting – March 15

March 16, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

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We’re bringing you the best recruiting and sourcing content on a weekly basis. Not seeing something from your favorite site? Suggest a site in the comments, and we’ll check it out!

Fixing The Black Hole: What You Can Do To Improve Your Candidate Experience Right Now
(via RecruitingTrends)

Don’t Ask Me How I Know: Life Lessons Learned From A Life In Recruiting 
(via Recruiting Daily)

Everyone In HR Sucks At JD Ads
(via Tim Sackett Project)

Sourcing, Analytics, Branding: 3 Roads Diverged In A Career 
(via SourceCon)

How To: Reject A Job Applicant (Without Making An Enemy)
(via SocialTalent)

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: analytics, Hiring, recruiting, sourcing, Week In Recruiting

RecruitingToolbox In DC Area For Tech Sourcing Lab

February 27, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

Looking for a way to get your sourcing team some additional training, without the cost of travel? RecruitingToolbox, founded by John Vlastelica, will be coming to 25in Reston, VA for a two day training. Carmen Hudson will be the on-site trainer for this event.

For more information, and to register, please RecruitingToolbox

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: recruiting, sourcers, sourcing, Training

The Week In Recruiting – February 22nd

February 24, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

We’re trying something new at recruitDC this week – providing you with a quick recap of some of the best recruiting articles from the last week. Grab a cup of coffee and catch up on recruiting news from around the web!
Tell us what you think!

I’ve Worked With Hundreds Of Recruiters – Here’s What I Learned
By:Peter Kazanjy, Founder TalentBin (FirstRound.com)

How To Reject Job Applicants Without Making Enemies
(The Undercover Recruiter)

Here’s Why You Should Never Be Rude To Strangers On Public Transport
(Buzzfeed)

Dear (Fake) LinkedIn 
(RecruitingInferno)

How To Prove You’re A Real Recruiter
(RecruitingDaily)

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: recruiting, sourcing

How To Find Direct Contact Info On Websites

November 6, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Mike Chuidian
The World Wide Web is a beautiful thing. We as sourcers and recruiters don’t even begin to scratch the surface when it comes to mining data/information on the great WWW. But we have some hope for getting a lot of that data, right? You know the saying….The one with the most information wins.  If you source on LinkedIn or any of the many social media platforms (i.e. Github, StackOverflow, FB, Twitter, Behance, etc.) we utilize, often times it’s hard to come by good contact information.

I particularly love IT dudes/dudettes that have their own websites. Why? Because it can be a wealth of information.  Whether that be their interests, the kind of work they do, or maybe if you’re lucky, some contact info….Not. So. Much. In this post, I’ll show you how to glean those 2 ever so important pieces of information….the phone number and email. Heck sometimes we can get the home address!

Usually, personal websites are either stumbled upon or on people’s Social Media bios. There are tons of personal websites out there, but very few reveal their contact info. So how do we glean that information? Let’s get started….

Step1.  First we check out a personal website….Looks pretty good to me!

Whois1Step 2.  I then click on “Contact”. But……..it’s the dreaded “Fill out the form”.  Boooo!! What a buzz kill for such an assumed highly qualified candidate!  Whois2Step 3.  OK…..Challenge accepted! I like to use Whois.com. This site basically allows you to enter in the websites’ URL to gain information on the owner of the website.Whois3Step 4.  Hit “Search”…….and VOILA!! You get this information…..Whois4Now as you can see, there’s all kinds of goodies on this page…..Phone#, email address, and even the home address! Exactly what I need to engage with this individual. But how do I know it’s the contact info of the person I intend to contact? Call them!!! DUH!! This one happened to check out.

There is a caveat to this obviously….Not all website owners will leave their website registrar public and will put privacy filters up. You can usually tell which registrars have been made private. But for the most part, a lot of these personal websites have public registrars.

So have fun with it! It’s another trick up your sourcing sleeve that is sure to be very helpful. I want to give a big shout out to Steve Levy for putting me on to this a while back. Dude is a sourcing genius!

Mike Chuidian is a Sr. IT Recruiting Consultant with Deloitte, and has worked with growing companies such as SAI and Comcast. He’s also an epic connoisseur of sneakers.  Keep in touch with Mike on LinkedIn or Twitter

Ed Note: This post was originally posted on Rad Recruiter, and republished with the Author’s consent. 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Hiring, mike chuidian, recruiting, Social Media, sourcing

Join Us For The Next recruitDC Event – December 11th!

October 20, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

Join us for the next recruitDC! Our upcoming half day conference will be hosted at the USAToday/Gannett building in McLean on Thursday, December 11th from 7:30am to 12:30pm.
We have an exciting line-up for this half day conference, starting off with Talent Advisors: The Next Frontier from Dion Love, Senior Director at CEB.

Following this session, we will host roundtable discussions to share and learn best practices on topics such as: Boolean Search Strings, Veteran Hiring Best Practices and Managing Recruiters & Building Effective Teams.

You will then have a choice between two breakout sessions: Engaging Talent or Recruiting Leadership. Panelists and presenters come from many different companies in our community including The MotleyFool, Bozzuto, Leidos, Rosetta Stone, CEB, Triple Canopy, to name a few!

Remember to register early, as tickets will go fast! https://fall2014recruitdc.eventbrite.com

Filed Under: recruitDC Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: networking, recruitDC, Recruiters, recruiting, sourcing

It's All In Magellan

September 30, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Derek Zeller
When I first started in recruiting there were significant differences than in today’s environment. It seems that the first thing we do is run to a job board, LinkedIn, or just post and pray. What happened to that database that you have? I mean there are agencies and companies that have been accumulating resume of candidates for years. Yet when it comes time to find that elusive purple squirrel we search on every website know in existence with Boolean strings that would make Shakespeare shake his head. Why? What are we so afraid of? I don’t know but I am going to break it down to why the first place you want to go IS your database. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ATS, Derek Zeller, recruiting, sourcing

The Candidate Experience – Each Candidate Is Different

September 5, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Kathleen Smith
Thanks to several programs and general awareness a focus in recruiting now is the candidate experience. While this is all good, we have to remember that not all candidates are created equal. 

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Candidate Experience, employment branding, Kathleen Smith, recruiting, Social Media, sourcing

Social Media Recruiting in the Defense and Intelligence Community

August 28, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Kathleen Smith
The buzz concerning social media for recruiting and employer branding has reached a ball-142738_1280fever pitch. What was once thought impossible, namely access to social media sites, and is now permitted. But now that the gates have opened many are in a quandary as to how to implement social media. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Government Contracting, intelligence community, Kathleen Smith, networking, Recruiters, recruiting, Social Media, sourcing

Resume Reviews: Quantity vs. Quality

August 13, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Pete Radloff
“We are overstretched and understaffed as a recruiting team.”

Does this sound familiar? Likely. It’s a common feeling across many teams. Many times this has a direct impact on the “resume black hole” that candidates and “thought leaders” so often reference. But here’s a question to ponder: why are we so inundated if we only spend an average of 6 seconds on each resume? 

Here’s the alleged “magic math”:

There are 1800 seconds in 30 minutes. At six seconds per resume, that allows for 300 resumes. Now of course, we need to include some time for loading and closing files. We’ll call it 5 minutes, which is 300 seconds.  We’re now down to 1500, giving you the chance to review 250 resumes. Time saved! Whew, easy!

Nonsense. Much like the business model of the Ladders, it’s a nice theory, but in reality the application is severely flawed. So maybe it’s time to approach how to manage the flow with a different mindset. Maybe we’re focused on numbers too much. Maybe it’s not about “Can I get through a specific amount of resumes”? Maybe it’s about conducting resume reviews as quality reviews versus quantity reviews.

I know we’re all busy, but the reality of it is that we need to challenge ourselves to find 30 minutes a day to review the resumes we’ve got waiting in our ATS. We’ve already seen and tested the claims that you can manage all of your social media in 10 minutes a day, so what about resumes, in say… 30 minutes? Wait, 30 minutes a day for reviewing resumes? Yes, seriously.  You see, in reality, there are certainly resumes we’ll barely spend 4 seconds on…..let alone 6 (for me, it’s resumes that are bolded every 3rd word), but inevitably we’ll have resumes that intrigue us enough to even (gasp!) read the cover letter. Averages like the ones offered in these “magic bullet” theories are nice, but they don’t tell the whole story. Maybe we don’t get through 250 each day. Maybe it’s only 50-60. But that’s progress toward shrinking the number of folks feeling like they just tossed their resume into a black hole. And it’s dedicated time set aside to seeking winners in the pile, not slashing through stacks. Plus, what a nice, quiet way to spend that first cup of coffee.

But we must each challenge ourselves (and conventional wisdom) to carve out some period of time each day to review some of resumes we’ve got in front of us. We may not get to them all. But when they pile up unattended, quantity is about all you are left with.

We owe it to ourselves, and to our candidates. Even if we do give some people only six seconds.

Pete Radloff is a member of the recruitDC Board of Directors, and a recruitment consultant with comScore and exaqueo. You can connect with Pete on LinkedIn and on Twitter

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Candidate Experience, Hiring, Pete Radloff, recruiting, resumes, sourcing

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