Agenda at a Glance

• The Superiority of Boolean NOTs and ORs Over LinkedIn’s Search Options
• Discovering Hidden Gems Beyond LinkedIn with Google X-Ray Searches
• Advanced Search Techniques That Enhance LinkedIn Recruiter and Lite
• Navigating the Advantages and Challenges of LinkedIn's AI Integration

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RippleMatch regularly conducts research on the next generation of talent and is excited to share its latest insights with the talent acquisition community. Join us as we share the latest data on what Gen Z candidates want from their workplace, how they are tackling their job search, what they expect from their candidate experience, and how leaders should respond. Attendees can expect to leave this session more knowledgeable about the youngest entrants to the workforce, as well as how their peers in recruitment are strategizing to connect with them.

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Have you ever had a job you consider hard to fill? The thing is, hard to fill doesn't always mean the same thing for everyone. Come join us to hear industry veteran Carrie Corbin, as she chats with an expert who has navigated some of the harder to fill roles in our space from global STEM roles to niche skilled trade with some high-volume thrown in for fun! Carrie will host a fireside chat discussion with Max Darby, Talent Attraction Manager for Hilti. 

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Join Craig Fisher as he shows you all the coolest tools and hacks to recruit via social media and the innovative use of technology in talent acquisition. This session is designed for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals who are eager to harness the power of social media platforms, posting, advertising, influencer marketing, and the latest recruitment technologies to attract, engage, and secure top talent.

You'll get expert insights on optimizing your recruitment strategies through effective social media campaigns, engaging content, and some perhaps unconventional tech tools that enhance your talent attraction, sourcing, and candidate experience. We'll look at TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Threads, even Pinterest and more platforms that can boost your brand and attract the right candidates.

What You Will Learn:

• Strategic Social Media Utilization: Discover techniques for maximizing the impact of social media in recruitment, including choosing the right platforms, crafting compelling content, and engaging with potential candidates effectively.

• Tech-Enhanced Recruitment: Learn about the latest tools and technologies that can streamline recruitment processes, from AI-driven analytics to advanced CRM systems, and how to integrate them seamlessly into your recruitment strategy.

• Building an Online Brand Presence: Understand how to develop and maintain a strong employer brand on social media that attracts candidates and fosters a community of potential recruits.

• Interactive and Targeted Campaigns: Explore how to create interactive recruitment campaigns that capture the attention of passive and active job seekers and effectively convert them into applicants.

• Analytics and Optimization: Gain insights into using data analytics to track the effectiveness of your social media recruitment strategies, optimize campaigns, and improve ROI.

Craig's session promises a deep dive into the practical applications of social media and technology in recruitment, providing you with the tools and knowledge to enhance your talent acquisition efforts and stay ahead in the competitive job market.

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Jump into the Networking Lounge to meet and greet fellow attendees.

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In this session, Darrian Mikell explores the untapped potential of candidate voice in the recruitment process. With the talent market becoming increasingly competitive, Mikell emphasizes the need for recruiters to leverage innovative approaches to engage top candidates effectively.

Mikell discusses the limitations of traditional phone interviews and the importance of reevaluating existing practices to meet the evolving needs of candidates and hiring managers. He shares insights from his experience at Qualify, highlighting the transformative impact of audio-based interviews on candidate experience and recruitment efficiency.

Mikell provides practical guidance on incorporating candidate voice into recruitment strategies, including setting clear expectations, adopting structured interview practices, and embracing technological advancements. Attendees will learn how to enhance candidate engagement, streamline recruitment workflows, and secure top talent more efficiently.

Throughout the session, Mikell underscores the value of candidate voice in driving recruitment success, emphasizing its role in creating meaningful connections with candidates and improving overall hiring outcomes.

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In this session, Michael will share the story of building out his Sourcing Center of Excellence – how it started and how its going.  He will also share what it took as well as the cool tool they built and their sourcing scorecard.  This will be great for any Recruiting or Sourcing Lead or Leader but all are welcome.

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This engaging panel discussion focuses on current trends facing talent attraction today. From AI and high-volume hiring to skills-based recruiting, industry leaders share their insights on top trends for 2024. Join the conversation with heads of TA to identify where to focus your energy to develop a framework for successful recruiting within your organization. 

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AI is revolutionizing recruitment, but understanding where to begin can be daunting. This session will demystify AI by exploring real-world use cases tailored for Recruiters and Talent Sourcers just like you. We'll dive into practical AI solutions that you can implement immediately to enhance your recruitment strategies. Join me to discover how AI can streamline your processes and provide you with effective, tangible takeaways that will elevate your recruiting game. Don't miss out on harnessing the full potential of AI to find and engage top talent more efficiently!

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Even in today’s modern job market, recruiters and candidates still face several challenges throughout the hiring process. 

All that can be transformed with the help of AI. 

Talent acquisition is well-positioned to benefit from new technologies that automate manual tasks — like candidate sourcing, scheduling, feedback cycles, and more — while recruiters focus on finding the best-fit talent for their organizations. 

In this session, we’ll discuss AI’s full potential to transform the recruiting process for enhancing candidate experiences to empowering recruiters.

You’ll learn how:

• AI empowers recruiters to overcome common obstacles, such as outdated employee profiles and cumbersome ATS systems.
• Talent intelligence streamlines hiring, enabling recruiters to efficiently create qualified pipelines and consistently track candidates' progress.
• Technology can provide more personalized candidate experiences tailored to candidates’ skills and potential.
• AI automates repetitive tasks — including screening and scheduling — reducing administrative burden for recruiters and giving candidates smoother application processes.
• To balance internal and external hiring — making the best possible build, buy, or borrow decisions for talent.
• Real-time market data can inform hiring strategies down to a skills level.

Join us to discover how AI can revolutionize talent acquisition.

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In this session you will learn the Sourcing lifecycle, what each step means and the info you will get as well as tools to help you gather that info. This will include research, sourcing, and enhancing.

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In this fun and interactive session you will learn how to build creative messages that attract talent to your company. You will learn how to highlight your value proposition, how to customize your outreach to reach the right talent, and automation techniques to help you save time on engagement.

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Unlock the power of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and gain a competitive edge in talent acquisition. In this dynamic conference session, Shally will dive deep into the art and science of ethically sourcing, analyzing, and applying actionable intelligence about key stakeholders. Stay ahead of the curve by mastering the latest OSINT tools and techniques tailored specifically for corporate recruiters.

Session Highlights:

• Understand the critical distinction between primary and secondary intelligence and how to leverage each effectively in your recruitment strategy.
• Explore cutting-edge OSINT tools such as Maltego, GHDB, Ceepy, and more to enhance your sourcing capabilities and uncover hidden talent pools.
• Uncover unconventional sources of OSINT, including archive.org, social media updates, journals, articles, and magazines, to gain valuable insights into candidate profiles.
• Harness the power of online discussions, conferences, trade shows, natural language processing, and peer regression searches to extract actionable intelligence.

Join us for an immersive journey into the world of OSINT and revolutionize your recruitment game like never before!

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• The critical role of job descriptions in automating hiring (and why you can’t just guess any more)

• Know what you should (and definitely shouldn't) use generative AI for when it comes to job post creation 
• Tactical, practical ways you can make your job stand out in a sea of sameness without being a professional writer 
• How to make your job postings more inclusive
• And more!

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Join in this engaging conversation with talent attraction pros to identify ways to utilize AI to create talent pools, identify the most relevant candidates, and personalize emails to engage candidates. Learn what works - and what doesn't - for sourcing with AI. 

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Join this session to learn about Marriott’s People Brand.  Simply put this is the ‘Be Brand’ showcasing and representing the culture at Marriott. Learn how it came to be, what made it successful, and how you can put something like this into place no matter where you are at on this journey or what size company you are marketing.

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Your organization is very likely somewhere within its cloud transformation journey. Talent acquisition professionals often struggle to recruit adequate numbers of job-ready candidates to support this strategic and sizable organizational investment. Even when they do, it often comes at a hefty price tag – as there are many more open roles than qualified candidates for these roles today. Meanwhile, additional technological advances are expected to significantly disrupt the talent landscape at organizations, by marginalizing or even eliminating many roles in the near future. How can Talent Acquisition practitioners and leaders partner with HR and business stakeholders to thrive in this dynamic talent environment? Hear from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, on how it is helping its millions of customers in this critical area of talent.

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How can AI elevate your employer brand beyond the competition? Join Lori Sylvia, Founder and CEO of Rally, to discover how to incorporate the transformative power of generative AI in the creation of your human-centered employer brand strategy. Learn how leveraging AI will provide you with a competitive edge and ensure your talent brand stands out in a crowded recruiting market. Lori will guide you through the practical steps of using AI to analyze your talent competitors, craft inclusive messages and enhance your brand's appeal to attract your target candidate personas.

You'll learn how to use AI to:

• Conduct Talent Competitor Analysis: Create a talent competitor landscape and uncover how to carve out a unique position.
• Evaluate Employee Sentiment and Reviews: Use AI to synthesize employee reviews to gain a clearer picture of your brand’s perception and areas for improvement.
• Analyze Your EVP’s Effectiveness: Measure the impact of your employee value proposition, enabling data-driven decisions to validate or refresh your EVP.
• Create Inclusive and Bias-Free Messaging: Analyze and optimize your communication, ensuring you’re speaking effectively to a diverse audience without unconscious bias.
• Identify Differentiation Opportunities: Uncover how AI can spotlight innovative ways to set your employer brand strategy apart.

Get ready to take lots of notes and walk away energized to unlock the power of AI in building a unique and compelling employer brand!

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Join Shannon Smedstad (exaqueo) and Jenny Bean (Walmart) for an engaging conversation on talent personas. During this session, you’ll hear how the largest company in the world (by revenue) uses people insights to understand key talent segments. If you’ve ever wondered what personas are, why companies use them, or how personas improve recruitment—this is for you.

Together, Shannon and Jenny have more than 50 years of recruitment and employer brand experience! They encourage you to bring your questions—there will be ample Q&A time to get what you want out of the session.

Bonus Takeaways:

1. Candidate Personas: Hiring Through Hearts and Minds
2. Hear more on personas from Emily Fritz, Managing Director - Employer Brand, exaqueo

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Employee advocacy often refers to digital programs where people share company-provided content. And that's something, but it's 2024. It's time to redefine employee advocacy, and rebuild experiences that create true advocates. This talk will cover the need for a redefinition, and how we can look to Legos to inspire the next generation of advocates (or, plainly stated, happy employees). Learn how to implement this mindset shift at your company.

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As Employer Brand professionals most of us have experienced a slow down of recruiting in favor of retention. This session will focus on the “other faces” of Employer Brand, internal communications and employee experience. Learn tips and creative ideas on how to “pull the EB thread” through to these areas.

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1. How to build an inbound talent marketing strategy and pairing it with your outbound sourcing efforts
2. Engaging and nurturing your community
3. Sourcing Sprints to build quick pools of talent for upcoming needs, leveraging social media and your CRM

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Actionable tips from leading employer branding and recruitment marketing industry practitioners on how to showcase your employer brand.

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In this session, we’ll explore how to:

• Construct quantitative models of job roles so you really know where/how to source and recruit and can measure whether you’re getting the right candidates
• Assess all the great-looking (on paper) candidates to score and rank their ability to actually do the jobs, in a fair and unbiased manner
• Develop interview guides and perform structured interviews with unbiased, comparable ratings so you maximize new-hire quality and diversity

Hear how Fortune 50 enterprises think about talent data in ways that are applicable to companies of all sizes.

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In this interactive session about measurement, you will learn why demonstrating employer brand results is essential for several reasons. Host Jörgen Sundberg of Link Humans will have a virtual fireside chat with Debbie Celado, VP, Global Talent Marketing at CBRE.

They will discuss how to get started, what metrics matter to leadership, how to report your progress, and to whom. The panel aims to keep things actionable and equip you with valuable takeaways. Debbie and Jörgen will be available for a Q&A at the end of the session.

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This session will delve into the sophisticated relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Resources (HR), as exemplified by Mahima Sharma's tenure at industry giants like Netflix and Cigna. Sharma's successful blend of data-driven strategies and human-centric values in fostering talent and culture offers a blueprint for AI's potential in enriching HR practices.

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Learner will gain skills to utilize data-driven strategies and foster strong relationships, enhancing recruitment outcomes and streamlining data delivery for business impact.

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• Types of job simulators: Email, business, behavioral. 
• Theory: Why do simulations work? How? 
• Scoring: Both soft and hard skill scoring in a simulation. 
• Cost/benefit: Comparisons across simulation types. 

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This session will focus on current regulations affecting talent attraction professionals today. Attendees will learn how to remain compliant with the latest updates on new laws that affect the use of AI, disclosure requirements, auditing, bias, wages and pay equity. Topics covered include: 

• Artificial Intelligence

• Wages and Pay Equity

• Workforce Performance

This session is designed for employers, recruiters, sourcers, and all those involved in talent attraction and employment.

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Unconscious bias, often unintentional and deeply ingrained, can significantly impact recruitment processes, leading to biased decision-making and hindering diversity and inclusion efforts within organizations.  In this session, Alicia Rivera will discuss the challenges of bias in the hiring process and strategies to implement to mitigate bias such as bias awareness training, structured interviewing techniques, diverse interview panels, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement. 

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In today's competitive talent landscape, organizations must transcend traditional Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives to embrace innovative strategies that foster neuroinclusion. This case study takes a brief look at how leading companies like Microsoft, New Western, EY, and Southwest Airlines are redefining their hiring practices, employer branding, and recruitment marketing to attract and retain neurodiverse talent.

The significance of neuroinclusion lies in its potential to unlock unique perspectives, enhance problem-solving capabilities, and drive innovation within organizations. By creating environments where neurodiverse individuals can thrive, companies can leverage diverse cognitive abilities to achieve competitive advantages.

This 30-minute session aims to achieve the following learning objectives:

1. Understand Advanced Neuroinclusion Strategies (What it is): Gain insights into the specific practices and policies implemented by companies like Microsoft, New Western, EY, and Southwest Airlines to support neurodiverse employees.
2. Recognize the Benefits and Challenges (Why it Matters): Explore the tangible benefits of neuroinclusion for organizational performance and innovation, as well as the challenges and solutions encountered in implementation.
3. Identify Best Practices for Talent Acquisition (Where to Start): Review actionable strategies for attracting and retaining neurodiverse talent through effective recruitment marketing and inclusive employer branding.

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We all know by now that a diverse and inclusive workforce benefits businesses and organizations. An inclusive interview process is critical since the interview is often the first face-to-face interaction candidates have with your business. Join this session for practical tips on how to make the experience more equitable and welcoming for everyone, so you can increase your chances of attracting a truly diverse team.

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Diversity — through the lenses of race, ethnicity, ability, gender, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, and beyond — can help to strengthen organizations. But how do you as a TA pro put DEIB initiatives into action when sourcing and recruiting candidates? In this open and insightful dialogue, panelists will provide actionable tips for steps you can take to further advance underrepresented talent in your organization.

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