Chicago HR Technology Conference in October 2005

This yearís conference was huge, with over 1700 people attending and 170 exhibitorís booths. Over a third of those attending were Directors or Senior Directors, and 18% were Vice Presidents. They represented a wide range of companies, from 30 % having more than 25 000 employees to 43% employing less than 5 000. Most did not manage the contingent workforce and had no desire to (42%), with just a few less managing it already (38%) and the remainder who would like to manage it (20%).

Many were there to decide how they were going to spend their budget this year, as they had new systems or services they wanted to use. Most said they were planning to change their HR Management Systems, though in different ways; 30% choosing to buy or implement a new system, 29% planning to upgrade their present system from the same vendor and 24% deciding to buy applications from a separate vendor and integrate them. Just under half were also intending to replace their current recruiting system this year.

The favourites for purchasing or implementing in the next twelve months were Portal or Self Service (30.4%), Electronic Recruiting (22.5) and Performance Management (22.5%) tools. Less than 9% were prepared to spend money on Workforce Analytics, Learning Management System, and Outsourced Services. The majority (65%) did not see outsourcing any part of their HR department as something new, with the all rest following the trend, by planning to outsource at least some of it during the next year.

With such a big forum, everyone will have found what they were looking for in Chicago.


Kenexa


TalentHire


Recruitusa


TheLadders


Icims


Wisdomnet


Peopleanswers


Sonicrecruit


Peopleclick


Valtera


Peoplefilter


Wetfeet


The Show


Convergys


CareerMetasearch


Runzheimer


AIU


CedarCrestone


BurningGlass


PAN


Wall Street Journal