Spring Brings a Slew of Social Media Recruiting Conferences
You can always tell when a new idea or technology starts to become mainstream. It seems that organizations and conferences seem to pop up ever where you look. This is certainly true with social media recruiting.
In the next eight weeks, there will be five major social media recruiting conferences held in the U.S. and U.K. This time last year, there may have been one. If you are a recruiter interested in social recruiting at any level, attending one of these events may be beneficial. You don’t have to be an expert. The topics covered at these events go from establishing a social recruiting strategy to best practices with individual social media platforms. Here is a look at what each event offers.
ERE Expo Spring 2010 – March 15-17, 2010 in San Diego, California
The ERE (Electronic Recruiting Exchange) Expo has been around for many years. This semi-annual event is not a 100% social media recruiting only event, but much of the content is social media geared. Some highlights of the expo include “Using Social Media to Attract and Engage Passive Candidates” presented by Starbuck’s Kat Drum, “Talent Attraction Successes at AT&T” and “Convert Your Corporate Recruiters into Darwinian Headhunters” with Lou Adler.
You can get more information about this event at – http://www.ereexpo.com/2010spring/location/ or on Twitter at #ere.
Social Media for Recruiting in Government and Defense – April 12-15, 2010 in Washington, DC
ALI Conferences, who puts on many government focused conferences, hosts this event for federal government recruiters. Some of the topics being covered include: building a social recruiting strategy, maximizing your social recruiting activities, empowering federal employees to use their social conversations into recruiting conversations, and shortening the length of the recruiting cycle with social media tools.
More information for this event can be seen at – http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_recruit0410/index.htm
TRU USA – April 19-20, 2010 in Madison, WI
More info can be found at – http://thetruconferences.com/tru-usa/
SOCRA’s #Recruitcamp – April 21-22, 2010 in Durham, North Carolina
This is the second #recruitcamp to be held. The spring event is being held at the Quintiles Corporate headquarters in Durham, NC. #recruitcamp bills itself as the local, unconference where social recruiters can get together to share best practices. Highlighted speakers include Punk Rock HR’s Laurie Ruettimann and is partnering with sponsor RecruitingBlogs.com and Jobs2Web.
Follow the unconference at – @recruitcamp, #recruitcamp, Facebook.com/socialrecruiting and Recruitcamp.com.
Social Media in Recruitment Conference – April 22, 2010 in London, England
Following up on the success of last summer’s SM in Recruitment conference, the Brits are at it again in April. This conference is geared toward recruiters, ad agencies and job board operators as an educational how-to type conference with workshops on using LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Also there is a success stories break out to see some best practices amongst UK recruiters strong in social media.
Link to the conference at – http://www.socialmediainrecruitment.com/category/2010-conference/
Social Recruiting Summit – May 17, 2010 in Minneapolis, MN
Come to the Best Buy headquarters in Minnesota for the second installment of the #socialrecruiting summit. This is likely the biggest and most well known U.S. social media recruitment conference. This spring’s event will cover topics like: social integration, engaging versus broadcasting using Twitter, and the use of SMS in recruiting.
Get hooked up with this event at – http://socialrecruitingsummit.com/mn2010/ or follow on Twitter at #socialrecruiting.
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Hi
I have been involved in some amount of Social Recruiting + have written some guest posts on the same available at: http://karishmadaswani.com/karishmadaswani/index.php/guest-content/
Thought to share! If there is some way i can help would be glad to 