Join us Sept 23rd in Seattle for our 6th Annual Recruiting Conference

6th Annual SMA Seattle Staffing Symposium

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 • 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Meydenbauer Center – Bellevue, WA

We hand-pick our favorite speakers from all the national recruitment and staffing conferences, bring them to you locally (Seattle/Bellevue) for a full day, and offer the entire program to you for a FRACTION of what you’d pay at ERE, SHRM, and other national conferences. You can bring your entire staffing team for the price of sending 1 person to Kennedy/Onrec!

• You’ll hear top rated, national conference speakers share best practices for the real world.
• You’ll connect and reconnect with hundreds of local and regional colleagues.
• You’ll have the opportunity to speak to vendors who will help make you look good.
• And you’ll have fun.

All of our speakers promise to be enlightening, real world, sometimes-challenging or edgy, and fun. Our distinguished speaker line-up includes:

• Carol Mahoney, former VP Talent Acquisition at Yahoo!, Opening Keynote “Relevant Leadership: Influencing the Future of Talent in Your Organization”
• Scott Pitasky, Corporate VP of Microsoft’s Talent & Org Capability, “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste”
• Eric Jaquith, Recruiting Operations Consultant, “Productivity Tips, Tools and Strategies to Add an Hour Back to your Day”
• Steve Lowisz, Author, International Speaker and CEO of Qualigence, Inc., "Conference Room or Cubicle – What Type of Recruiter do You Want to Be?"
• Elaine Orler, Talent Management Strategist, Consultant and Trainer, "Top 10 Talent Technologies of Tomorrow - Available Today!"
• Laurie Ruettimann, highly entertaining Chief Blogger on Punk Rock HR, Closing Keynote “Recruiters, Recession, and Recovery: You Define the Market”
• John Vlastelica, Sr. Director, Global Talent Acquisition at Expedia, Master of Ceremonies

Pricing:

• SMA Seattle Primary or Secondary Chapter Members = $249
• SHRM Members (and not SMA Seattle Chapter Members) = $279
• Non SHRM Members = $299

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: www.smaseattle.org!

Hope to see you there!

Free Recruiting Trends Webinar - prepare for the economic turnaround

Join Kevin Wheeler and I on October 21st at 10am PT/1pm ET as we explore the critical issues you need to consider as you prepare for 2010 and the (assumed) economic turnaround. This facilitated panel discussion will focus on the key questions you need to answer to prepare for the recruiting work ahead. We'll discuss possible answers to questions like...

• How to prepare your departments and hiring managers for 2010
• How to drive the right workforce planning conversations
• How to engage the candidate communities you recruit from ahead of the need
  

Learn more and register (free!) at Kennedy's RecruitingTrends.com site.

Learn Best Practices for College Recruiting: NACE Web Conference

College Recruiting Best Practices: Online Conference, Aug 11-13, 2009

I'll be presenting at my first NACE conference in a few weeks. My topic will be How to Leverage Your Hiring Managers. We'll discuss how to lead, how to set managers up for college recruiting success, what tools they need to effectively interview, select, and sell candidates, how to engage and reward managers, and how to leverage SLA conversations to set and manage expectations. I'll also be part of the opening keynote session on The Future of Recruiting.

I'm excited to hear great speakers like Kevin Wheeler, Gerry Crispin, and Steve Lowisz talk about social networking, the future of recruitment, metrics, and more.

Details are at: http://www.naceweb.org/education/2009recruiter/default.htm

The 4th Annual Seattle Staffing Symposium

Hi - Staffing Management Association of Seattle (formerly EMA Seattle) is proud to announce the details for our 4th Annual Staffing Symposium. We've got a great lineup of national-conference-quality speakers packed into a single, recruiting and retention focused day on June 11th.

• Michael McNeal, Vice President of Talent Strategy and Acquisition, Intuit, Inc. His team just won the corporate recruiting department of the year award down at ERE.
• Laura Stoker, Senior Director of Training, AIRS. She's an amazing web sourcing trainer and popular return speaker for us.
  
• Shally Steckerl, Talent Acquisition Consultant and Strategist, JobMachine. Shally's the definitive sourcing guru, and he's back to share advanced techniques.
  
• Steve Lowisz, President and CEO, Qualigence. This speaker knows how to work passive candidates.
  
• Brian Krueger, Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition, Amazon. Brian's been at Amazon for 6 months or so, and will share a great, low cost idea for growing your employment brand awareness.
  
• Sharon Jordan Evans, Consultant and Popular Author. Sharon wrote the book - literally - on employee retention.
• Jason Warner, Recruiting, Training, and Development Leader, Google. Jason - our Seattle native - is returning to speak on what he sees that's wrong with our industry, and what we can do to make it right.
  

Learn more and register early. We had 300 people attend last year from all over the West. At under $300, it's a phenomenal value. See you June 11th!