Improving economy will soon create major challenges

Recruiting 2004 Conference and Expo May 10-11 in Las Vegas To Explore Best Practices in Employer Recruiting, Retention and Future Workplace Challenges

LAS VEGAS, N.V. (March 17, 2004) ñ Corporate America is poised to hire again.

Data compiled by the editors and analysts at publisher Kennedy Informationís Executive Recruiter News and Recruiting Trends suggest the market for executive talent is improved from just one year ago. Yet while the strengthening economy will invariably boost the broader jobs market, it will also move workers whoíve stayed in unfulfilling jobs through the depressed job market of the past three years to make their next career move. Recruiting Trends has reported recently that upwards of 60% percent of U.S. workers will seriously consider changing positions when given the opportunity.

So itís easy to understand how the business of recruiting and retaining employees is once again becoming a ìfront-burnerî issue for employers nationwide.

The best practices in corporate and not-for-profit recruiting will take center stage in May when Kennedy Information, Inc., a subsidiary of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., and a publisher that has tracked the business of recruiting since 1970, holds its
Recruiting 2004 Conference and Expo, May 10-11 at The Las Vegas Hilton (www.Recruiting2004.com) . The event is sponsored in part by The Wall Street Journal and CareerJournal.com .

Featured speakers include Dr. Linda Clark-Santos, Senior Vice President of Talent and Organizational Capability at Washington Mutual, recently ranked among the nationís ìTen Most Active Hiring Organizations;î Vandana Allman, Global Practice Leader for Talent-Based Hiring at The Gallup Organization; James Paulson, Manager of Recruitment and Employment for the Northwest Region of Kaiser Permanente; and Dr. Beverly Kaye, the founder and CEO of Career Systems International, an authority on employee retention whose most recent book was nominated in January as ìBook of the Monthî by Fast Company Magazine.

ìWeíre convinced that the up-tick in executive-level hiring weíve been reporting in Executive Recruiter News is a leading indicator of the kind of broad, nationwide hiring activity we expect to see as the U.S. economy continues to gain momentum,î says Kennedy Information CEO Joseph Bremner. ìOur recruiting best practices conference will come at just the right time for corporate and non-profit recruiters who want to understand the evolving talent market, gain valuable insight from recruiting experts and take away tactics they can deploy to meet their own future hiring needs.î

The program for the Recruiting 2004 Conference and Expo has been tailored to address key issues facing recruiting, staffing, Human Resources and workforce planning and development professionals from corporate and not-for-profit organizations, including: Directors and Managers of Recruiting/Retention, Employment Managers, Vice Presidents, Managers and Directors of Human Resources; Staffing Specialists; Chief Talent Officers, Internet Recruiters and other professionals with organizational recruiting responsibilities.

Other speakers confirmed for the Recruiting 2004 Conference and Expo include:
Dr. Margaret Regan, President & CEO, The FutureWork Institute
Dr. John Sullivan, Author and Professor, San Francisco State University
Samer Hamadeh, CEO, Vault

Tony Lee, Editor in Chief/General Manager, CareerJournal.com
Susan Strayer, Assistant Director of Career Services, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Weddle, CEO, WEDDLEís Newsletters and Guides
Alex Baxter, Managing Partner, The Lucas Group
Rich Sierra, President and CEO, HealthcareRecruitment.com
Cecelia Dwyer, President, TrueCareers, a Sallie Mae Company
Scott Young, Senior Vice President/General Mgr., Revolution.net - a Viacom Company

The May conference will also include special ìHealthcare Recruitingî sessions, addressing some of the most critical issues facing recruiters from hospitals, healthcare providers, managed care organizations, healthcare systems, schools and healthcare recruiting solution providers. Healthcare recruiters can learn more about this specialized part of the conference program by visiting.