e-recruitment strategy

RCEURO - NEW IDENTITY

I talked recently about our rebuild and rebranding project following the Beta launch of Recruitment Community Europe during the Global Recruitment Conference 2009 in Amsterdam.

Well, at 2am local time on Monday, RCEURO went live.  Rather than run a couple more weeks on the development platform, we have moved everything into live production. Naturally, that means that we will still be doing some bug fixes and tweaks over the next few weeks, and I am sure that our visitors will be quick to point out any issues (Please!).  We now want to build out the community from our base of 2000 members to reach 5000 by the summer. 

We need the vendors. agencies, HR and recruitment community to come on over, register, join or start up groups and start contributing content articles and blogs.

What a year this will be.

Following my own advice

I recently presented at The Recruitment Conference, hosted by Recruitment Consultant Magazine on how companies should be using social networks to promote their business. Naturally, as in the Cobbler's Shoes story, I had not updated the Abtech Website and still have not set up my FaceBook and LinkedIn company pages.

Of course, my time has been consumed with Keith as we are preparing Version 2 design and functionality of Recruitment Community Europe, which should hit the air in the next few weeks. We have taken on board comments and suggestions from a wide range of our community on the Beta site we launched in November. We are really excited about the new look and will be really ramping up our membership drive and have a lot of great content in the can for the launch.

Meanwhile, back at Abtech, we have launched our Business Brand Social Network Consulting and Training services. Full details on the web site - or contact me directly.

Abtech provides a range of options to assist your organisation in maximising the reach of social and business networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in the UK and national specific networks such as Hyves (Holland), Xing (Germany) and Viadeo (France).

We offer ½ day and 1 day in-house workshops for those organisations who already have a basic understanding and knowledge of social media. The workshop approach will show you how to set-up the right tools, use them to maximum effect to promote your business and learning what can and cannot be done.

Technorati Tags: e-recruitment, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter, training, Recruitment Community Europe, Recruitment Community Europe

Recruitment Community Europe website launched

Well we took the covers off our RCE Beta site last week at the conclusion of Global Recruitment Conference 2008

Check out the About Us section for an introduction to our goals and aspiration to build a truly EMEA wide recruitment community, one that is for all constituents and that will take advantage of both community, user generated content and commentary, complemented by a series of physical events which bring the virtual network to a face-to-face experience.

Check us out, sign up and participate.

SlideShare on LinkedIn and other arenas.

Hi

As we prepare for the launch of Recruitment Community Europe, I am trying out different technology links and ideas.

LinkedIn has announced a wide range of new embedded applications, widgets and other tools. So, I have signed up for SlideShare, added the app to my LinkedIn profile, uploaded a presentation I made earlier this year the the Recruitment Consultant conference and, Hey Presto! there it is on both sites. Now have added the SlideShare badge to my Blog on the RCE site and it links back to the presentation.

So, next step is to see if I can put the badge on this blog.

Comments everywhere please!

Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, Global Recruitment, online matching, Recruitment Community Europe, Recruitment Community Europe

Broadbean acquired by AND

Hi all

Broadbean, a silver sponsor for Global Recruitment Conference 2008, has just made the leap into the next level of business, with the announcement of its acquisition by AND, owners of Jobsite and Conkers, among other properties.

Congratulations to Dan and Kelly and the Broadbean team. Come on out to Amsterdam and hear what the industry players thing about this move.

Al

Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, Global Recruitment, online matching, Recruitment Community Europe

GRC 2008 - Interactive Media Zone is announced

Hi again

I am really excited about this initiative we have created for the conference.

Interactive Media Zone


GRC 2008 will include a unique interactive media zone in the exhibitor/sponsor hall at the conference. This will provide delegates, speakers and sponsors the opportunity to put their opinions out on the web via their selected channels. All delegate catering and social activities take place in the exhibitor hall.


Audio Interviews


Mike Taylor of Web Based Recruitment will be conducting Audio interviews of delegates, speakers and sponsor/exhibitors throughout the event for posting to his site as well as the RCE site. Naturally available for your use as well.
As an example of Mike’s interviews, here is one he has done of conference chairman Alan Whitford this month: http://www.web-based-recruitment.com/expert-interviews.htm



Video Interviews


Bill Vick of Extreme Recruiting will be doing Video interviews of delegates, speakers and sponsor/exhibitors throughout the event for posting to his site, ERE and Fordyce in the US, our site and your site in Europe. For examples of Bill’s interviews, including Alan Whitford, visit: http://www.xtremerecruiting.tv/ 



Blogging Shack

We will have a dedicated blogging area where delegates, speakers and sponsors will have access to the Internet for posting thoughts about GRC 2008 (or any other topics) direct to RCE blogs, their own sites or any other blogging outlet. Super Bloggers from across Europe will be on hand to provide advice to neophytes as well as posting to their own sites. Bloggers will include Louise Triance and Peter Gold of UK Blogging fame.


Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, ERE, Global Recruitment, online matching, Recruitment Community Europe, SEO

GRC 2008 - Interactive Media Zone is announced

Hi again

I am really excited about this initiative we have created for the conference.

Interactive Media Zone


GRC 2008 will include a unique interactive media zone in the exhibitor/sponsor hall at the conference. This will provide delegates, speakers and sponsors the opportunity to put their opinions out on the web via their selected channels. All delegate catering and social activities take place in the exhibitor hall.


Audio Interviews

Mike Taylor of Web Based Recruitment will be conducting Audio interviews of delegates, speakers and sponsor/exhibitors throughout the event for posting to his site as well as the RCE site. Naturally available for your use as well.
As an example of Mike’s interviews, here is one he has done of conference chairman Alan Whitford this month: http://www.web-based-recruitment.com/expert-interviews.htm



Video Interviews

Bill Vick of Extreme Recruiting will be doing Video interviews of delegates, speakers and sponsor/exhibitors throughout the event for posting to his site, ERE and Fordyce in the US, our site and your site in Europe. For examples of Bill’s interviews, including Alan Whitford, visit: http://www.xtremerecruiting.tv/ 



Blogging Shack

We will have a dedicated blogging area where delegates, speakers and sponsors will have access to the Internet for posting thoughts about GRC 2008 (or any other topics) direct to RCE blogs, their own sites or any other blogging outlet. Super Bloggers from across Europe will be on hand to provide advice to neophytes as well as posting to their own sites. Bloggers will include Louise Triance and Peter Gold of UK Blogging fame.


Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, ERE, Global Recruitment, online matching, Recruitment Community Europe, SEO

Mike Taylor - Audio Interview

Hi again

My interview with Mike Taylor of Web Based Recruitment is now up on his site and on his blog:

Web Based Recruitment: Expert Interviews

You can listen to a number of the Leading Lights of the UK recruitment industry here - and even download the interviews for your listening pleasure on your iPod or at home in the evening :-)

Blog: Online Recruitment Blog

Mike will be performing this service for us at GRC 2008, interviewing speakers, delegates and sponsors for posting to the RCE site and for other media outlets from our Interactive Village.

Come on over and join us.

Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, Global Recruitment, online matching, Recruitment Community Europe

Bill Vick Video Interview

Hi all

Bill Vick, Recruitment Pioneer and business mind extaordinaire, has kindly interview me this week in his series on Extreme Recruiting TV The interview is also available on the ERE Fordyce Newsletter.

Bill will be providing a similar service for us at Global Recruitment Conference 2008 in Amsterdam on 11-13 November, interviewing speakers, delegates and vendors at our Interactive Village.

Check out Bill's collection of interviews and head on over to our event.

Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, Global Recruitment, online matching, Recruitment Community Europe

Global Recruitment Conference 2008

Well, after a very long absence from the blogosphere, I thought I had better come on back.

And what better reason than to promote an event that Keith Robinson and I have been working on for the past year. We are launching Recruitment Community Europe this fall, with our signature event (which we have worked on the past 3 years with David Manaster of ERE, before taking it on directly this year.)

Here is a description for your information.

Global Recruitment Conference 2008 (Amsterdam, 11-13 November) will help corporations from around the globe develop and sustain world-class, industry-leading recruitment and staffing functions. Join this unique and elite group of corporate recruiting leaders to learn and share best practices.

Global Recruitment Conference 2008 will explore the issues that local, continental and global recruiters see as key challenges for today and into the future, including:

• Building and managing a global hiring team
• Employee and corporate branding
• Social and business networking as a recruitment solution
• Building a world class career site
• Maximising the power of Google as a recruitment partner

Add to your learning with the interactive experience of the pre-Conference workshops, which include:

• CyberSleuthing
• Performance Based Recruitment Solutions
• Employment Branding
• Talent Futures
• Psychological Testing – Help or hindrance? 


SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Kevin Wheeler

Global thought leader in pioneering the optimisation of recruitment functions and Talent Management

An De Jonghe 

CEO Ulysses Consulting, author and thought leader on social networking

John Nurthen

Randstad Holdings

Luke McKend

Industry Head, Careers, Google UK

Register today, and meet the challenges of recruiting in 2008 and beyond head-on! It takes just a few simple steps to register for Global Recruitment Conference 2008 by visiting the event website: www.globalrecruitmentconference.com


WORKSHOPS

Join us on 11 November for an outstanding series of interactive workshops, led by industry experts in such diverse fields as employee branding, talent management, deep web searching and psychometrics. Amongst our workshop leaders are:

Simon Barrow
People in Business
Building the Employee Brand

Kevin Wheeler
Global Learning Resources
The Future of Talent

David Mendoza
Six Degrees From Dave/Job Machine)
CyberSleuthing - How do you find those hard to reach candidates?

Roger Holdsworth
Founder/CEO Talent Q. Previously founder of SHL. The guru in the use of psychometrics in recruitment and employee assessment.


Join us 11-13 November 2008 in Amsterdam for:

GLOBAL RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE 2008



The recruiting conference that delivers it all on a global level.




Technorati Tags: Candidate attraction, e-recruitment, ERE, Global Recruitment, Recruitment Community Europe