Minnesota Recruiters events will be held 3 times in 2010 along with webinars and informal brown bag lunches. We will also be supporting the Social Recruiting Summit and Future of Talent sessions.

Who should attend this event:

Corporate Recruiters
HR VPs/Directors/Managers
Staffing Specialists/Managers
HR Recruiters
Workforce Planning Professionals
Researchers/Sourcers
Search Firm Professionals

Recruiting: The Candidate Experience

Jim D'Amico - Recruiting leader, professional comedian and Buckeye's fan.  Jim's expertise is in building, implementing and leading best in class recruiting teams focused on adding value and improving performance through increased efficiency, quality, and utilizing metrics driven quantitative and causal analysis. 

Exploring the good, the bad and the ugly, based on exhaustive personal research.  This presentation will discuss the bottom line importance of provide a quality candidate experience, and discuss the practical aspects of creating positive a positive recruiting process for the candidate.

Online Recruiting: What Are We Thinking?

Jason Buss, VP – Talent Acquisition & Diversity at Ameriprise Financial, and the founder of The Talent Buzz recruiting blog. 

Job boards, aggregator sites, search engines, social media; the list goes on. With hundreds of thousands of sites containing millions of pages worth of content, we wonder why we’re getting an average of 220 applicants per requisition, with low quality and conversion, and disregard for both candidates and companies? In this session, Jason Buss will discuss the online recruiting disaster that’s unfolding, why it’s happening, and what we can do about it.

Transforming Talent Needs at Deluxe: Identifying the Opportunity to Build and Engage in Talent Community

Steve Lewis, Executive Director, Talent Acquisition

Stacy Van Meter, Talent Community Manager 

Deluxe, on a burning platform as their traditional check business is in decline, is transforming to be the "growth engine for small businesses and financial institutions. Wow, talk about needing a whole new breed of talent. From printing and checks to online marketing, social networking, SEM and web hosting/services.  Steve will talk about the transformation that recruiting has had to make, with an emphasis on their "online channel strategy" development and the realization that Talent Community was an important ingredient in making this happen.  Stacy will discuss her new role and how she is integrating into the business and the recruiting function.

Many thanks to our sponsors and volunteers without whom these events would not be possible:

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Paul DeBettignies
Minnesota Recruiters
Co-Founder and Coordinator
paul@mnheadhunter.com