The AIRS/Yahoo! HotJobs 2005 Sourcing Summit Series

WILDER, VTó AIRS, providerin recruitment training and information announces the final agenda for the AIRS/Yahoo!HotJobs Sourcing Summit Series that will be visiting 13 cities this fall. This high-impact professional development series for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals will include the following 4 learning tracks: The Latest From AIRS Labs - Cutting Edge Tools & Ideas For Sourcing íGame Changingí Passive Candidates; Trends In Sourcing: A Look Inside Americaís Best Corporations, presented by The Newman Group; Supercharging Your Employee Referral Program, presented by Dr. John Sullivan & Associates; and Your Job Market - Competitive Intelligence Briefing, based on extensive research from AIRS & Corzen



Last yearís Sourcing Summits attracted over 850 of the top recruiting and HR professionals. The 2005 Summits provide a completely new, half-day format, an extended 13-city schedule, and a networking lunch open to all attendees. The Summit Series will visit: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Princeton, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC.

Topics to be covered include:

The Latest From AIRS Labs - Cutting Edge Tools & Ideas For Sourcing íGame Changingí Passive Candidates

In the last 12 months, the world of Internet sourcing has changed...again! The big search engines are moving in new and interesting directions and scores of great sites have appeared that offer new and innovative ways to source outstanding passive candidates. Join AIRS for this breakaway session of cutting-edge ideas and íout of the boxí Internet sourcing methodologies that will absolutely supercharge you and your recruiting team!

Trends In Sourcing: A Look Inside Americaís Best Corporations

Built from over 200 surveys and interviews, this groundbreaking íbest practicesí research takes you inside Americaís leading sourcing organizations to learn what works, what doesnít, and how you can truly unleash the power of your own recruiting team. Presented & developed by The Newman Group -- Americaís premier recruitment consulting company.

Supercharging Your Employee Referral Program

There is no doubt that employee referral programs are quickly becoming the top source of great hires in organizations around the globe. However, most referral programs as implemented today achieve only a small fraction of what they are capable of. A supercharged employee referral program can make the results of an average program seem paltry in comparison. Learn what program characteristics differentiate a supercharged program from an average one, and how when implemented properly, an employee referral program can drive not only recruiting, but employee retention and motivation as well.

Your Job Market - Competitive Intelligence Briefing

Learn whoís hiring, who isnít, and where companies are spending their employment-advertising budget -- just in time for 2006 budgeting. Walk away with an in-depth competitive intelligence briefing on the state of employment advertising and job boards in your local market!

All Summit attendees receive:

100-page AIRS Sourcing Summit Guide packed with the presentations, forms, and tools used in every session, panel, and workshop.
Access to the AIRS Alumni Network - the most dynamic online recruiting community on the Web.
Unlimited access to the AIRS Sourcing Portal - the password protected site packed with the most up to date tools and G2 on sourcing tactics and strategies

Attendees are also invited to a networking lunch after the sessions to further discuss their sourcing successes with and learn from fellow colleagues and expert speakers.

ìUnlike traditional conferences that reheat old ideas and pundits, the AIRS Sourcing Summits are the only national conference that focuses exclusively on candidate sourcing. The Summits are built to bring the best thinkers, research, and real world ideas together into a workshop meant to inspire and empower the transformation of an organizationís sourcing and recruiting programs,î said Forman. ìFrom the latest concepts in Internet sourcing to new ways to leverage employee referrals and affinity groups - the AIRS Sourcing Summit Series is built around interactive discussions between peers and expert practitioners from some of the countryís leading Fortune 500 companies to unlocks the tools and ideas recruiters need to ensure their organization is on the path to truly strategic recruiting.î

Past attendees of the Sourcing Summit include:

AT&T Wireless, Bank of America, Bank One, Biogen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cendant Corporation, Citicorp Credit Services Inc, Dell, Direct TV, Disney Consumer Products, Dominoís Pizza, eBay, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Ernst & Young, ETRADE Bank, Farmers Insurance, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Express, Ford, Gallup Organization, Gillette, Hallmark Cards, Hershey Foods, Hewlett Packard, Hilton Hotels Corporation, JCPenney, JP Morgan Chase, Liberty Mutual, MassMutual, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, NBC, Nestle Waters. Nike, Nissan North America, Inc., Oracle, Panasonic, Peopleís Bank, Pier 1, Raytheon, Reynolds & Reynolds, Safco, Safeway, Spherion, Staples, Starbucks, Sun Life, Sun Microsystems, The Limited, Inc, The New York Times, TJX Companies, T-Mobile, Tufts, US Airforce, US Department of State, Verizon, WalGreens, Wal-Mart, Washington Mutual, Whirlpool and, Wyndham International.

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