Onrec Session: Quality of Hire – the Next Talent Management Frontier

Aug. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- William Uranga, Director of Talent Acquisition of TiVo, will be joining Yves Lermusi, CEO of Checkster at the onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2010, to be held at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center, in Chicago from September 14-16, 2010.

As thought leaders and practitioners, William and Yves have come together to focus on Quality of Hire and how we really measure recruiting successes and or its failures. At onrec Expo 2010 they will be discussing their findings in their session: Quality of Hire – the Next Talent Management Frontier. William and Yves will join a notable line-up of over 30 expert speakers at this year’s Recruiting Conference.

onrec Expo 2010 provides a thriving network exposition hall packed with the latest tools and services to help your organization hire the best, and is highly regarded as the “must attend” recruitment event of 2010 where corporate recruiting practitioners and thought leaders will educate hundreds of attendees with cutting edge training (HRCI Credit pending) on innovative sourcing, screening and recruiting techniques and technologies.

onrec Expo 2010 will bring together global delegates and exhibitors involved in recruitment to share their common interests, provide a business driven networking environment, and stimulate discussions, debates, and beneficial partnerships.

Session Description:

The Talent Management department has the potential to become the killer application of any organization. In order to achieve success, you will need to go beyond the traditional management of cost, reviews, brand, and legal issues.

A talent management leader will need to focus and deliver one thing: top performing employees.

In this session you will learn how to become truly strategic by measuring quality of hire, and see how this measure can direct all your initiatives. This presentation is divided in two parts. First, you will learn the limitations of the traditional measurement methods and offered a best measurement of approach. Second, you will learn a practical way to implement these methods, and the impact they will have on your organization - making you the strategic leader that you deserve to be.

After this program, participants will be better able to:
•   Understand how to best measure quality of hire
•   Quantify the financial impact of bad hiring
•   Implement the methods you will be learning
•   Compare the different methods of measurements
•   Understand why and how social media is a surprising contribution

Speaker Bio:

William is a dry-humored director with over 15 years in talent acquisition in the Silicon Valley. Quoted places like HR Magazine, Workforce, CNN Money and Talent Management, William’s focus is on what moving an organization forward through improved client engagement, resource flexibility and candidate experience. An instructor for the Human Resource Management Certificate Program at the University of California Extension in Silicon Valley, William teaches working professionals how to think differently when recruiting talent in today’s economy. Uranga co-founded and leads a local group of his peers in the Recruiting Leadership Forum.

Mr. Lermusi founded Checkster after seven years at Taleo (TLEO) as President of Taleo Research. Prior to Taleo, Mr. Lermusi founded iLogos (acquired by Taleo) and held several positions in research and consulting organizations in Europe. Mr. Lermusi was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the Recruiting Industry” and his blog has been recognized as the best third party blog.

About TiVo

Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. developed the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). TiVo offers the TiVo service and TiVo DVRs directly to consumers online at www.tivo.com  and through third-party retailers. TiVo also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite, and broadcasting companies. Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into the ultimate single solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities with the ability to aggregate, search, and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable, and broadcast content directly to the television. An economical, one-stop-shop for in-home entertainment, TiVo's intuitive functionality and ease of use puts viewers in control by enabling them to effortlessly navigate the best digital entertainment content available through one box, with one remote, and one user interface, delivering the most dynamic user experience on the market today. For more information visit, www.tivo.com.

About Checkster

Checkster is revolutionizing the way companies organize their reference checking by offering state of the art automated reference checking technology. From now on playing phone tag, unprofessional reference reports with feedback from 2-3 people are history. The state of the art technology takes only 2 minutes to launch and yields at least twice as many responses, and compiles all the data in a professional report. From now on, fuss about corporate policies that prohibit employees from giving feedback is a thing of the past since Checkster’s technology takes care of that as well. The same way Checkster is revolutionizing reference checks, it also revolutionizes and democratizes 360 feedback technologies.

About onrec Expo:

onrec Expo is Onrec.com’s annual international recruitment conference featuring a wide range of over 25 industry specific topics from more than 40 of the top thought leaders and industry experts - and with the 2009 acquisition of Kennedy Information's Recruiting Conference and RecruitingTrends.com, onrec Expo has effectively become the must attend recruitment conference of the year.

A division of the Tarsus Group - an international B2B media company creating industry-leading events, publications and online media since 1998 - Onrec.com is the world's leading information resource for Human Resource and Recruiting professionals, and is the accompanying website to Online Recruitment Magazine, which takes an in-depth look into recruitment and industry suppliers - helping corporate recruiters, recruitment agencies, and suppliers find the best resources available through a range of media and services. A growing portfolio supported by Tarsus Online Media, features educational and networking products in the talent management, HR and recruiting sector including; TalentManagementTech.com, RetentionInstitute.com, TheRecruitingConference.com, RecruitingTrends.com, and Onrec.com.

Start onrec Expo 2010 by joining our great line-up of leading experts on online sourcing. Expand your understanding of the proven tools, techniques, and strategies to deepen your talent pool and optimize your sourcing channels, by attending the preconference Sourcing Summit: http://www.Onrec.com/conferenceusa/pages/sourcing_summit1

For an overview of all Onrec session topics visit: http://www.Onrec.com/conferenceusa/pages/session_descript...

For more information on all of the speakers participating at this event visit: http://www.Onrec.com/conferenceusa/pages/speakers

For more information on the Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2010, contact Anna Brekka at anna@Onrec.com or go to www.Onrec.com/conferenceusa

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