8:15 – 9:00 AM PDT
Coffee Talk: Meet and Greet in the Lounge
Kickstart your day with live networking in the Lounge!
9:15 –9:55 AM PDT
Moneyball for Talent: Building Complimentary Teams on a Budget (Read More)
Losing the war on talent means losing everything. This session will change the paradigm on how we look at talent to put us back in the game. Attendees will learn a new toolset for evaluating current talent and how to open up alternate avenues for new talent.
9:55 –10:00 AM PDT
Coffee Break
10:00 –10:30 AM PDT
10:30 –10:45 AM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
10:45 –11:15 AM PDT
TikTok For Recruiting: The Next Frontier (Read More)
The popularity of TikTok has dramatically shaped how a whole generation perceives the world - including careers. Chances are, your company, products and jobs are already on TikTok in one form or another. So the question is,how do we as Talent Acquisition professionals participate?
What can we learn from TikTok trends that enable people to see an authentic view of what we do at our companies, and increase our connection to the community and boost hiring efforts?
If TikTok boggles your mind- have no fear. There are principles for designing your content for success and reaching a whole new demographic of candidates.
Listen, learn, and watch from Alexander Lamburini, Skill Scout Film’s Creative Director on the power and punch of TikTok for Recruiting. In this session you will:
11:15 –11:20 AM PDT
Coffee Break
11:20 –11:50 AM PDT
TA Transformation at MGM Resorts
12:00 –12:30 PM PDT
Networking Break
12:30 –1:00 PM PDT
Internal Mobility: Leveraging Internal Talent through Upskilling and Mobility (Read More)
The key take away from this session will include:
1:00 –1:05 PM PDT
Coffee Break
1:05 –1:35 PM PDT
1:35 –1:50 PM PDT
Afternoon Networking Break
1:50 –2:20 PM PDT
Jack of All Trades... How Specialization Can Optimize Your Talent Acquisition Function (Read More)
We've all heard the saying "jack of all trades, master of none"... this session will focus on how having "jack of all trades" recruiters can be a deterrent to truly optimizing the experience of your candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters. This session will highlight a case study on how we've specialized aspects of our recruiting process at PwC and the outcomes we've had as a result. TA practitioners will leave with tangible steps they can take to diagnosis bottlenecks in their recruiting process and implement specialization to increase their value to the organization and improve the outcomes for their stakeholders.
2:20 –3:00 PM PDT
Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy (Read More)
Now more than ever, talent engagement is key to a company’s success and, quite possibly, to its competitive advantage. To enable execution of any business strategy, leaders must develop a comprehensive talent strategy customized to enable business strategy execution for the future. To achieve effective recruitment, retention, and staff development, leaders must develop a comprehensive talent strategy to address the company’s current and future needs. Join this engaging panel discussion to identify key practices for developing a talent strategy.
3:00 –3:30 PM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
Grab a drink and connect with someone new. Cocktails optional!
8:15 –9:00 AM PDT
Showcase Showdown
Join us for this energy-packed pitchfest to learn about our sponsor platforms and tools. This brand-new TA Week sponsor highlight series is all about helping you connect and learn in a fast-paced fun experience! Jump into the Networking Lounge afterwards for morning coffee to meet and greet fellow attendees.
9:15 –9:55 AM PDT
The Bottom Line of Employer Branding (Read More)
Building and maintaining relationships with candidates and employees requires constant attention, resources, and investment. Just like consumer branding and marketing, you have to attract, maintain, and build ambassadors for your brand. In an era where candidates have access to an exceptional amount of information and opportunities for employment, it’s more important than ever to show the value, cost savings, and bottom-line impact of branding and marketing the entirety of the employment experience.
In this session, Susan will take you through four top-line examples of the cost impact of employer brand so you can demonstrate to your leaders the importance of your work.
9:45 –10:00 AM PDT
Coffee Break
10:30 -10:45 AM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
11:20 –11:50 AM PDT
Building Executive and Leadership Support for an EVP in Days (not Months)
12:00 –12:30 PM PDT
Networking Break
12:30 –1:00 PM PDT
How to Effectively Manage a Social Media Page for an Employer Brand (Read More)
In this session, attendees will go through real-life examples to grasp how social media theory comes to life through helpful case studies. Attendees will learn about:
1:00 –1:05 PM PDT
Coffee Break
1:05 –1:35 PM PDT
Attract, Engage, & Nurture Top-Tier Job Seekers with the Power of Video (Read More)
Many sources tout the power of video over written content, citing video as 1,200% more successful than other types of content. They not only allow content to be consumed quicker but also allow employers to showcase their employer brand and candidate experience in a meaningful way. However, many organizations struggle with the challenges and complexities of storytelling, as well as capturing and editing video content — but times are changing!
Reimagine how your TA team can produce videos, all without the fancy equipment and added expenses. Join Recruit Rooster’s Heather Hoffman, Drew Palmer and Ruth Toombs to explore how companies are simplifying the video-making process. You’ll learn how to create employee testimonials and culture highlight videos for your career ecosystem that further supplements recruitment marketing efforts and drives real, proven results.
1:35 –1:40 PM PDT
Coffee Break
1:50 –2:20 PM PDT
Creative Resources for High Volume Positions (Read More)
In this conversation we will deep dive into becoming the talent strategist when it comes to identifying creative ways to find quality candidates for your high volume roles.
2:20 –3:00 PM PDT
How to Research and Create Talent Personas to Drive Recruitment Marketing (Read More)
Candidate personas need to be based on actual data, not assumptions. Research should account for current employees, any major stakeholders in the hiring process and candidates. Creating a good candidate persona describes the target candidate’s background and work experience, their motivations, personality traits, and career goals.
Join us for this engaging and insightful panel discussion with leaders in EB to identify tips and examples to successfully creating talent personas to drive your recruitment marketing strategy.
3:00 –3:30 PM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
Grab a drink and connect with someone new. Cocktails optional!
8:15 – 9:00 AM
Showcase Showdown
Join us for this energy-packed pitchfest to learn about our sponsor platforms and tools. This brand-new TA Week sponsor highlight series is all about helping you connect and learn in a fast-paced fun experience! Jump into the Networking Lounge afterwards for morning coffee to meet and greet fellow attendees.
9:15 –9:45 AM PDT
How to Use ChatGPT for Sourcing and Recruiting (Read More)
ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, when used correctly and with the right guidance, can positively transform TA pros to be far more productive and efficient. Join us for this opening keynote session to kickstart your day with data, knowledge, and practical use-cases for sourcers and recruiters.
In this session, Mike "Batman" Cohen will explore in-depth automation, new (free) tools, and how ChatGPT can actually help you do your job (not do it for you).
9:45 –10:00 AM PDT
Coffee Break
10:00 –10:30 AM PDT
10:30 –10:45 AM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
10:45 –11:15 AM PDT
Creative Sourcing Strategies for Pipeline Building During Hiring Slowdown (Read More)
Purpose and Objective: Presentation will cover topics on creative sourcing strategies with examples and anecdotal data for successful pipeline building and recruiting during a downturn.
Takeaways: The audience will learn about unique and proven ways to source, engage and recruit highly skilled talent in an ever-changing labor market when hiring is slow. They will learn to utilize social media to find and network with potential candidates for hard to fill tech roles.
11:15 –11:20 AM PDT
Coffee Break
11:20 –11:50 AM PDT
Employee Powered Hiring (Read More)
Employee referrals are an unparalleled source when it comes to recruiting top quality candidates for your organization. In this engaging session, Matt will share how he set the bold goal of bringing in 50% hires from employee referrals and how he has worked to empower employees to meet that goal. He will discuss:
12:00 –12:30 PM PDT
Networking Break
12:30 –1:00 PM PDT
Sourcing Fundamentals: How to Leverage Google, Boolean, and Natural Language Search (Read More)
In this session, Brian Fink, Talent Acquisition Partner at McAfee, will teach the latest and most effective techniques for talent sourcing on search engines and social sites, including the most efficient ways to collect, organize, and manage your searching efforts.
Takeaways:
Go beyond AND, OR, and NOT.
Learn critical keyword driven extensions to find unclaimed resources
Update your Chrome extensions that take the guesswork out of organizing.
Harness the power of Natural Language Search.
Find hidden resumes in the cloud.
1:00 –1:05 PM PDT
Coffee Break
1:05 –1:35 PM PDT
1:35 –1:40 PM PDT
Coffee Break
2:20 –3:00 PM PDT
Tips and Tricks for Sourcing and Building Diverse Candidate Pools (Read More)
To achieve your DEI goals, the first step is building a more diverse talent pipeline that will feed into the workforce and provide more opportunities for people from underrepresented groups. Join this interactive and engaging panel discussion about how to attract diverse talent, set goals for sourcing diverse talent, proactively source candidates to build your diversity talent pipeline, update job descriptions to make them more inclusive, and look internally to drive diversity hiring initiatives and curb potential bias in the recruiting process. Bring your questions!
3:00 –3:30 PM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
Grab a drink and connect with someone new. Cocktails optional!
8:15 – 9:00 AM PDT
Showcase Showdown
Join us for this energy-packed pitchfest to learn about our sponsor platforms and tools. This brand-new TA Week sponsor highlight series is all about helping you connect and learn in a fast-paced fun experience! Jump into the Networking Lounge afterwards for morning coffee to meet and greet fellow attendees.
9:00 –9:15 PM PDT
Day 4 Opening Remarks
9:15 –9:45 AM PDT
3 Ways to Put DEIB at the Center of Your Recruiting Strategy
9:45 –10:00 AM PDT
Coffee Break
10:00 –10:30 AM PDT
Recruiting Essentials for a Diverse Talent Pipeline (Read More)
In this webinar, we’ll help you kick start your diversity outreach and save you valuable time by providing you with the “must-have” resources that are essential to any recruiter’s outreach strategy. We’ll show you the variety of options that you have – from government workforce agencies to non-government community-based organizations – who are present in every major city across the country who provide job placement, career search, job training, and job coaching services to individuals with disabilities, veterans, minorities, women, the LGBTQIA+ population, older workers, and other protected classes, that you can partner with to refer qualified candidates to you and amplify your diversity recruiting efforts. We’ll also discuss little-known workforce programs to incentivize employers to hire targeted populations, and help you secure buy-in from your management team.
Discussion Topics:
10:30 –10:45 AM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
10:45 –11:15 AM PDT
Sourcing with Standard LinkedIn (Read More)
In this session, Blair Fambro will explain how to use LinkedIn for sourcing — the right way — and some common missteps to avoid if you want to find the best candidates and make the best impression on prospective talent. Don't miss this engaging and insightful session full of tips and tricks!
11:15 –11:20 AM PDT
Coffee Break
11:20 –11:50 AM PDT
Reducing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting and Sourcing Process (Read More)
This session highlights TA pros can recognize, understand and manage hidden biases that can lead to poor decision making and undermine DEI initiatives and goals.
12:00 –12:30 PM PDT
Networking Break
12:30 –1:00 PM PDT
Hiring and Retaining Disabled and Neurodiverse Talent
1:00 –1:05 PM PDT
Coffee Break
1:05 –1:35 PM PDT
1:35 –1:40 PM PDT
Coffee Break
2:20 –3:00 PM PDT
Recruiting Strategies and Accommodations for Neurodivergent Talent (Read More)
Actionable steps to help organizations fine-tune your hiring strategies for neurodivergent talent. Role out accommodations with traditional hiring process:
3:00 –3:30 PM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
Grab a drink and connect with someone new. Cocktails optional!
8:15 –9:00 AM PDT
Showcase Showdown
Join us for this energy-packed pitchfest to learn about our sponsor platforms and tools. This brand-new TA Week sponsor highlight series is all about helping you connect and learn in a fast-paced fun experience! Jump into the Networking Lounge afterwards for morning coffee to meet and greet fellow attendees.
9:00 –9:15 AM PDT
Day 5 Opening Remarks
9:15 –9:55 AM PDT
Bringing the Data to the Edge
9:55 –10:00 AM PDT
Coffee Break
10:00 –10:30 AM PDT
10:30 –10:45 AM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
10:45 –11:15 AM PDT
How to Recruit and Convert More Accurate Candidates
11:15 –11:20 AM PDT
Coffee Break
11:20 –11:50 AM PDT
How To Write A Job Posting (Read More)
Join this session to learn the steps to write a more accurate job description.
In this session, Katrina will show attendees how to rewrite your job step-by-step to successfully receive more qualified applicants than ever. Let's find the tools to teach your team to write job postings that deliver results.
12:00 –12:30 PM PDT
Networking Break
12:30 –1:00 PM PDT
Candidate Experience: How to Improve Talent Acquisition to Drive Business Performance
1:00 –1:05 PM PDT
Coffee Break
1:05 –1:35 PM PDT
1:35 –1:50 PM PDT
Networking Break
1:50 –2:30 PM PDT
Analytics that Matter to Better Position TA (Read More)
Talent acquisition should be viewed as more than an investment — it’s a revenue generator. Join us for this session to learn how to leverage strategic talent acquisition partnerships and utilize data analytics to demonstrate the value of TA.
2:30 –3:00 PM PDT
Networking in the Lounge
Grab a drink and connect with someone new. Cocktails optional!