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!

2010: Hope to see you in person!

First, a belated Happy New Year to you!

Quick personal update
2009 was a fantastic year. Business was amazing, I was able to work on some really interesting projects with some big global organizations and some small start ups. I got healthy. And, in late October, I accepted a phenomenal opportunity to return to a corporate leadership role as the Sr Director, Global Recruiting with Expedia.

Events in 2010
Here are some of the places I'll be in 2010. I hope to see you in person!

• I'm honored to be the MC and Chairman of the 2010 ERE recruiting conference in San Diego this March.
  
• I'll be speaking here in Seattle at the SHRM Washington State Council Annual Conference, also in March.
• I'll be hosting Kevin Wheeler's Future of Talent regional event at our Expedia headquarters in April.
  
• I'll be MCing our annual Staffing Management Association Staffing Symposium in Seattle in May.
  
• And I'll be speaking - for the first time - at SHRM's big annual conference in San Diego in late June.

Here's to a great 2010 to you and your team!

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

Join us at our 5th Annual Staffing Symposium in Seattle, June 3, Amazing Speakers

Hi - We're holding our 5th Annual Recruiting Conference on June 3 in the Seattle area. Our SHRM Staffing Management Association of Seattle (SMA Seattle) group puts on national-conference-quality events each year for <$300.

We have an amazing speaker lineup, including the heads of talent acquisition from Microsoft and Expedia. And one of the best speakers I've ever heard - Penelope Trunk, who will bring an irreverent, funny look at Gen Y.

Details and registration info: www.smaseattle.org

I'll be MC'ing again this year.

Some of our distinguished speakers include:

* Scott Pitasky, Microsoft Corp VP, Talent & Org Capability. Every recruiting leader (and recruiter!) wants to know what the head of global microsoft recruiting is thinking! He's very smart, and an incredible presenter. (He was also a keynote speaker at ERE in March)

* Penelope Trunk, Boston Globe Columnist, Brazen Careerist, Avid Blogger. Take an entertaining and engaging trip with Penelope into the world of Gen Y. She's hilarious, irreverent, very smart, and very, very direct; prepare to be challenged. (One of the best speakers I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot)

* Eddie Pate, Consultant and former Director of Diversity at Starbucks and Microsoft.

* Janel Canepa, Consultant and former HR and Recruiting Leader at i2, Ariba and Cisco Systems. Learn how to stay relevant and engaged in a changing recruiting landscape from someone who has built unbelievably effective recruiting machines in Silicon Valley.

* Kristin Graham, Expedia Sr. Director, Recruiting / Communications. Kristin brings a true product marketing and branding orientation to the way she thinks about recruiting and social media.

Hope to see you there!

John Vlastelica
Co-Founder, Past President, and Strategic Advisor
SHRM's Staffing Management Association of Seattle

Spring Conferences

The 2009 Spring (starts Mar 30) ere conference agenda was just published.

I'll be presenting again this year, including a half day session on leading consultative recruiting teams with my colleague Jeremy Eskenazi, and a solo session on how we can make our hiring managers successful.

Details at http://www.ere.net/events/2009/spring/ataglance.asp

I'll write more about ere in the coming months.

Hope to see you there!

Just Added - Pre conference workshop with Shally

We just added a pre-conference workshop to our SMA Seattle June Conference. Join sourcing guru, Shally Steckerl, on June 10th, for an intense 3 hour advanced sourcing techniques workshop.
Where? Bellevue, Washington
How much? Only $199.
Learn more here: http://www.emaseattle.org/shallyworkshop.shtml

Hope to see you there!

John Vlastelica
SMA Seattle - Past President, Strategic Advisor, 2008 Staffing Symposium Master of Ceremonies

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!

Are you going to the ERE conference this Spring?

I'll be speaking down at the big ERE conference in San Diego again this year. Let me know if you plan to attend. And if you haven't registered yet, but you plan to, email me. As a speaker, I'm given the opportunity to save my colleagues some money on registration.

March 31-April 2, 2008
San Diego

john [at] recruitingtoolbox [dot] com