Onrec.com have organised an online recruitment conference to take place in Sydney at the Sydney Marriott Hotel.
 9.00-9.15
David Hurst | Publisher | Onrec.comSydney conference organiser and chair David Hurst started Online recruitment magazine and Onrec.com in February 2000. Both publications are well known in the UK and his knowledge of the online recruitment market in both Europe and the States is wide-ranging. His interest in the market has positioned him at the forefront of the industry. |
 9.15
- 9.45 Paul Bassat | CEO | Seek Communications Online
recruitment strategyPaul is the CEO and co-founder of SEEK. SEEK operates seek.com.au and seek.co.nz, Australia and New Zealand’s leading online employment sites. SEEK has rapidly established itself as the destination of choice for employment advertisers and jobseekers. Since its inception in 1997, SEEK has been recognised as one of the fastest growing businesses in the Asia Pacific Region as well as one of the "Best Employers to work for in Australia". |
 9.45
- 10.30 Todd Wheatland | Regional Director APAC,
Marketing| Kelly ServicesOnline employer branding and the next phase for online recruitment The rise of employer branding, combined with demographic, technology and metrics trends, is having a profound impact on the nature of online recruitment. Todd looks at the next generation of solutions that are already transforming the industry. Kelly Services is a Fortune 500 global leader in staffing services. Kelly serves 200,000 customers through 2,500 offices across 27 countries. Todd Wheatland is a ten-year veteran in human resources and marketing. The Founding Editor of industry portal hrmanager.com, he maintains an active interest in the issues and in particular the technological changes that are shaping the new HR. In his role with Kelly, Todd has been responsible for the development
of online recruitment systems managing over a million online applications
per year. He is currently responsible for the strategic redesign
of Kelly’s 150+ global websites. Todd is the past recipient
of an AMI National Award for Marketing Excellence. |
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 11.00
- 11.30 Fiona Brady | Director | FB NetworkUnderstanding the Jobseeker perspective With over Eighteen years in Recruitment and more recently Online Recruitment, Fiona continues to “Make a Difference”, through sharing knowledge and innovating Recruitment solutions. Having returned to Australia last year upon successfully selling her HR Online Recruitment business, Fiona has identified an opportunity for a specialist Fin/Banking jobsite in Australia to deliver dual jobseekers from the UK. |
 11.30
- 12.00 John Benson | CEO| eFinancialCareers.comThe Global Niche Perspective As online recruitment gathers pace, global brands will emerge for online recruitment in industries that require diverse and international talent; one such industry is finance. John Benson will look at how the search for skills and talent within the financial markets in Europe and the U.S. is becoming increasingly global and how the online recruitment industry is responding. John Benson is founder and CEO of eFinancialCareers.com, the web’s
largest network of jobsites dedicated to the finance industry. eFinancialCareers
has sites in the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland
and partners with leading financial brands such as Bloomberg, Thomson
Financial, Financial News and Institutional Investor. |
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 13.00
- 13.40 Graeme Rowe| GM - Business Development |
RECRUITadvantageOnline recruitment - Outcomes, Trends and Pitfalls Using aggregated data from millions of online job applications, Graeme will review the results, trends and pitfalls encountered by companies undertaking online recruitment in Australia today. RECRUITadvantage is the largest provider of online recruitment solutions in the Asia-Pacific region, processing more than 2 million online applications annually. Their innovative solutions power corporate careers sites, integrate with job boards and build talent pools. Graeme Rowe has extensive experience in the development of internet and ecommerce services. He has introduced some of the first broadband services in Australasia and hosted application services in both Australia and New Zealand. Graeme heads the RECRUITadvantage sales and marketing operations and is a key interface between customer need and product development strategy. Prior to joining RECRUITadvantage Graeme built a strong career in technology-related Business Development and Marketing roles, most recently as Product Director for SEEK. Graeme previously held senior marketing positions in Telecom NZ and AAPT and was the Australasian Marketing Director for esolutions, a joint venture between EDS, Microsoft and Telecom NZ. |
 13.40
- 14.20 Davor Miskulin | MD | ResumoCandidate Screening and Assessment - effective use of Technology in the early stages of the recruitment process Davor formed Resumo Pty Ltd in 2002 with the purpose to actively develop and promote advanced leading-edge candidate evaluation and resume screening systems. In the same year Resumo has made strategic alliance with the Burning Glass Technologies from USA, developer of worlds most advanced and effective artificial intelligence solutions for resume processing, screening and search. Resumo Inc. is now based in Toronto, Canada with activities spreading as far as UK, USA and Australia in promotion as well as consulting on the design of effective web-based recruiting strategies, resume processing and screening tools, and employment websites. Previously, Davor spent five years as Head of IT for the Slade Group (formerly Lyncroft Consulting), one of the largest recruitment agencies in Australia. While at Slade, Davor was instrumental in the introduction of its web-enabled job and candidate application system as well as in architecting the integration of Slade's recruitment, accounting, and payroll systems. Davor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Zagreb, Croatia as well as a Graduate Diploma
in Applied Information Systems and Master of Business in IT from
the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. |
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 14.50
- 15.20 Mike Giuffrida | MD | NGA.netMethodologies and lessons learned and statistics from the Australia Post online recruitment case study Australia Post employs over 35,000 full-time and part-time staff and is one of Australia’s most reputable organizations. Every day, millions of Australians have a personal experience of Post through their contact with one of its staff. Learn how over the last 18 months recruitment process has been transitioned online to handle recruitment of entry level staff. Whole process has been streamlined including pre-qualification of applicants. This has created measurable bottom-line savings as well as shorten the time taken to make recruitment decision. Key vendor in the project was NGA.net from Melbourne. |
 15.20
- 16.00 Andrew Banks | Managing Director | talentpartners
Trends in Human Capital Management and where on-line fits
into “best practise"Andrew Banks came to Australia from the UK in the early 1970s and commenced his career as an actor with The Old Tote Theatre Company, including the Macbeth production at The Opera House. To supplement his income as a fledgling actor, he was a partner in a successful Sydney restaurant business. He then “cut his hair and got a normal job”, and completed six successful years in the international corporate sector as a human resources professional working in the UK, Norway and the USA, before returning to Australia to join the Executive Recruitment Industry in its early years of development. Andrew, together with Geoff Morgan, founded Morgan & Banks in early 1985, and grew the company to become the dominant recruitment force in Australia and Asia. The company went public in 1995 and sales grew to over $700 million, before it was acquired by TMP/Monster.com in 1999, a US listed company on the NASDAQ. Andrew spent the last three years of his time with TMP in New York as Global Director responsible for over 30 acquisitions, and 4,500 staff operating in 32 countries around the world. Together with Geoff Morgan, Andrew has authored four books on recruiting, and he works in their investment company, Morgan & Banks Investments, which has a wide range of interests including property development and operating businesses, as well as being a major shareholder and director of Talent2 International (TWO), a publicly traded company on the ASX, which focuses on Executive Search & Selection, Workforce Management and Human Capital Outsourcing. In 2004, Geoff and Andrew were the recipients of the Ernst; Young
Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award given for sustained success
in business. |
10.30-11.00
- Coffee break and networking