During the last decade of economic expansion, organizations have focused on finding the right talent to drive business growth. However, record-low unemployment rates and skills shortages in many technical areas has made recruiting harder.
This workshop will take you through the tools you need to leverage to develop a leading-edge recruitment strategy. Create a road map to:
Use employment brands, recruitment marketing campaigns and AI driven tools to deliver recruiting excellence
The job market has changed dramatically over the past decade, it is more democratized and digitized today, with power shifting from employers to employees. This creates a massive challenge for TA teams who lack natural sales and marketing skills.
In this exciting workshop session, you will discover how to use sales and marketing skills to improve your talent acquisition. Take away marketing strategies and tactics to segment your talent and target it more effectively. Develop a step-by-step guide to:
Build a digital strategy to market the EVP of your organization
While some candidates engage and apply directly for roles, more and more companies are realizing the best quality hires are those that were passive and not actively looking for a new role.
In this engaging workshop, you will find out what it takes to tap into passive talent. Discover how to identify, engage, and convert passive talent into new hires. Take back to the office a plan to:
Identify, engage, and convert passive talent into hires
There is a strong relationship between the employee value proposition and employer branding, yet many talent acquisition teams struggle to connect the two to create an effective employer brand.
In this workshop, you will use branding to communicate your organization’s value and learn to use it to attract the top candidates you need for roles in your organization. Source a step-by-step strategy to:
Use effective branding to communicate your organization’s value
Did you know that 80% of all Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in HR is currently used in TA? Given the complexity and size of the TA market and accelerating technological development, it is no surprise that there are a wealth of innovative ideas and solutions unfolding. You’re not alone in trying to make sense of it all as these new technologies are challenging to keep up with.
Discover how AI can help innovate and unfold solutions to TA
Discuss how AI is being used by other organizations to recruit and how it has helped in their recruitment processes. Analyze how AI is used by companies in screening and shortlisting candidates right now. Take away specific solutions to:
Identify top talent and boost employee engagement with AI
Engage with leaders in the field of talent acquisition to expand your network and gain new perspectives. Quick rotations will help you break the ice as you get to know your fellow delegates. Bring your business cards, make new connections, and build your knowledge!
Robotic Process Automation is the buzz word these days; it is all about making things a little bit faster and automating processes. Reveal real examples of companies using robots to improve TA processes and improve the candidate experience. Employ technologies to:
Evaluate robotic process automation to streamline the search for talent and save time
Personalized experiences are critical to attract top talent. While technology can make recruitment processes faster, they can also depersonalize the application process. Create a personal application experience with AI to streamline and enhance recruitment processes. Illustrate how to:
Ensure a personalized human experience with candidates while still leveraging technology
Acquire useful tools to make your lives easier and discover platforms that capture passive candidates. Assess how companies overcame difficult hiring markets (like Montreal right now) by:
Acquire useful tools to and discover platforms that capture passive candidates
With so many job boards, it is critical that you post a compelling ad that will get results fast. In this workshop-style session, you will create engaging, inclusive job ads with a human touch. Benchmark best practices against the leaders. Master the success factors to:
Create engaging, compelling and inclusive job ads with a human touch
LinkedIn is the new landscape of recruitment. Develop strategies to connect with your candidates across all platforms. Deep dive on how to:
Harness the power of LinkedIn to drive your talent acquisition strategy
Large technology pioneers are now developing advanced systems to better match candidates and positions. Amplify your hiring performance. Source new tools to:
Ensure you hire the right talent by further verifying candidate skills.
Effectively review assessment and pre-screening tools and strategies
5 roundtables - The methodology seeks to foster an environment that is good for conversations to develop. The approach gets authentic conversations started in order to encourage the sharing of ideas in a relaxed, informal and creative atmosphere. Each roundtable will have 10-20 attendees. The discussion will last for approximately 30 minutes.
The objective is that At the end of the discussion the facilitator will be asked on to the stage to share with the whole audience the 3 key takeaways from their roundtable.
Choose one roundtable:
Roundtable 1: Candidate ghosting: how to attract and engage from source to hire
Ghosting is where candidates don’t show up to interviews or don’t call back when you give them an offer. Find out how to attract and engage from source to hire by:
Evaluate how to stop Ghosting in its tracks
Amar Grewal, Global Director Talent Acquisition, Scotiabank
Roundtable 2: Diversity around talent
Recruiters often look at just the candidate’s skills and not the cultural fit, which is equally as important. Find out how diversity and inclusion play a role in recruitment by:
Find out how diversity and inclusion play a role in recruitment
Farah Zafar, Global Talent Acquisition Manager, CSA Group
Roundtable 3: Enhance your digital platforms to improve your candidate experience and journey
In digital talent acquisition, user experience and candidate experience have become synonymous. Determine how candidates interact with your organization across digital channels to improve your candidate experience. Develop a plan to:
Determine how candidates interact with your organization across digital channels to improve your candidate experience
Dr Wade Larson, Chief Human Resources Officer, Wagstaff US
Roundtable 4: Talent analytics – establish which KPIs you care about
This session will deep dive into the candidate experience and will help those in the talent space understand various touch points with candidates. When hiring, it is crucial you provide the optimal candidate experience while selecting and hiring the right people to fit within your corporate culture. Leverage analytics to better understand your hiring process and your hiring team, as well as:
Leverage analytics to better understand your hiring process and your hiring team
Aamna Contractor, Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, Cineplex Entertainment
Roundtable 5: Talent acquisition at a global scale
Some of being a global company and having an array of positions to fill globally, is the ability to reach out to the networks, gain market intelligence for that specific geography, branding in an area where you might not be well known and knowing where to and how to attract the right talent. Take away specific solutions to:
Become better at attraction at a global scale and how to effectively do that
David Barlaam, Director of People Attraction Operations, T-ROC
Recruiters are gaining candidates’ interest by using twitter and Instagram. But how do you pull candidates in and optimize the effectiveness of social recruiting? Develop strategies to connect with your candidates across all platforms. Walk away with an action plan on how to:
How to effectively use social media for recruiting
Employer branding has moved beyond a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’. Compete for the best talent with an engaging brand which reflects your organizations values. Discover how to develop your employer brand and market your brand/jobs digitally. Take back to the office a step-by-step plan to:
Leverage employer branding as a tool to secure the best and brightest talent
Candidate experience is critical in a technological day and age, where the use of tools can create a disconnected experience for potential new hires. Implement tools like Phenom People and data analytics can improve a candidate’s application experience and attract top talent to your company. Take back to the office strategies to:
Leverage big data, AI and analytics to improve the candidate experience, your brand and the quality of talent attracted
When it comes to our preoccupation with applying emerging technology, data insights, automation, candidate experience, internal mobility, full transparency and talent communities to our toughest challenges, can we still ignore the unanticipated consequences many of these solutions are surfacing? Take a closer look at whether business leaders will ever agree to fully support a 21st century response to an 18th century model of recruiting. Establish ways to discover:
Establish whether business leaders will ever agree to fully support a 21st century response to an 18th century model of recruiting
Today, candidates expect to complete their entire job search and application process on their mobile phone. Understand which mobile first approaches work, and how you can adopt a mobile first strategy to enhance your digital talent acquisition. Master the success factors to:
Maximize your digital talent acquisition by creating the best mobile experience
Over the last few years, enterprises have put the ‘user experience’ and ‘candidate experience’ to the top of their priority list when looking to improve their recruitment process. Clarify how candidates interact with your organization across channels and conduct journey mapping to improve your user experience. Adopt a plan to:
Maximize your digital candidate experience to improve your candidate journey
AI is being used for resume screening, video interviewing, and interview scheduling. Streamline your recruitment processes with automation. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:
Harness the power of AI to reduce your time to hire
Digital technologies have increased the pace of the war for talent. Prepare your organization for the future and ensure you are prepared for the newest trends in talent acquisition. Adopt best practices to:
Ensure your organization is prepared for the newest trends in talent acquisition
Trailblazers are using podcasts to give job seekers insight into their work environment and company culture. Go beyond specific job openings to provide potential candidates with insight into the future possibilities of the role. Get new ideas to:
Create a podcast to showcase your organization’s work environment to candidates
While traditional applicant tracking systems (ATS) have been viewed as laborious in the past, their value can be extremely powerful when implemented correctly and used efficiently. Uncover the value of new ATS tools, boosted by AI, to improve the candidate-company relationship. Explore ways to:
Uncover the value of new ATS tools, boosted by AI, to improve the candidate-company relationship
Staffing leaders are required to be responsive to the ever-changing hiring needs of their business units. Implement a data-driven HR and recruiting strategy to improve how you allocate team resources and transform decision-making across the business. Master the success factors to:
Unlock the power of digital TA to influence the greater strategic role of HR in your organization
This case discusses how to transform and become a digital content producer, an aggregator and international multiplatform distributor of a new generation of learning media resources. The key to an organization's success is its diverse talent, recruited from a global pool of creative and innovative experts. Attendees will gain:
Use Global Talent Stream visa to add more Senior and Diverse tech talent to your teams
It is estimated that 75% of the workforce will be comprised of Millennials within the next ten years. Develop a strategy to recruit and retain young talent to ensure your organization gets the best candidates. Get new ideas to:
Adapt your hiring practices to technology and demographic trends.