4th October 2012 - London
This year the focus of the online recruitment conference will be ‘How to harness the power of online recruitment, and the latest thinking in how to make full use of the UK’s online recruitment opportunities’.
Speakers from HR will be providing an insight as to how their organisation has adapted to online recruitment and advice from industry experts. The one day conference will include top speakers, who will offer their professional insight into the world of online recruitment and the latest developments in the sector.
The exhibition will also offer a platform for suppliers to the industry to showcase their products and services to HR professionals, job boards, recruitment advertising execs, and all those involved in the online recruitment industry.
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker: Nicky Ivory-Chapman, Reputation & Resourcing Manager, McDonald’s UK
Session: The Perspective of Online Recruitment from one of the UK's largest employers
Nicky is the Reputation and Resourcing Manager for McDonald’s UK, responsible for Recruitment, Employer Brand, Uniforms and the employee lifestyle and learning website across 1200 UK restaurants. Nicky has spent all her adult life at McDonald’s. Joining as a part-time employee in 1993 and spending the first 10 years in Restaurant Operations managing various restaurants in the West End of London. Following a 3 year secondment in HR Operations, and with the arrival of David Fairhurst as the new HRD, Nicky was selected to join the newly formed Reputation team in 2006 and took on a new dual role of resourcing and employer reputation.
In her current role Nicky manages the resourcing team, who develop and implement recruitment processes and manage the careers website for 1200 restaurants across the UK. The McDonald’s careers site currently receives over 2000 applications per day and recruits for roles from Work Experience to professional hires. Recently the team were involved in ensuring the 4 flagship restaurants on the Olympic Park were staffed with the best 2,000 employees from around the UK and that all impacted restaurants had a strong supply of candidates. The employee lifestyle and learning website ‘ourlounge.co.uk’ is visited daily by most of the 87,500 UK employees and is the primary communication tool to provide news, schedules, online learning and recognition programmes. Its success has led to versions being created for other McDonald’s markets in Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Finland and Russia with the UK sharing their platform and experiences to help colleagues engage digitally with their employees.
Nicky is also responsible for the various employer branding projects of recent years, which set about redefining perceptions of McDonald’s as an employer. These projects range from disruptive recruitment advertising campaigns, new uniforms created by fashion designer Wayne Hemingway and managing the external recognition programmes and submissions.
Who Should Attend?
Tickets for the Onrec Conference and Exhibition are £350+VAT. Email stuart@onrec.com for more information or to book your place
