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Minnesota Recruiters Conference 11 | Summer 2010 | Recap

 

On July 30^th, 2010 the 11^th Minnesota Recruiters Conference brought 200 Recruiter and HR professionals to a new location and a new format.

Thanks to Rebecca Warren, General Mills Recruiting Manager, and their team for hosting us. I was a bit nervous as after doing 10 of these at Best Buy (where we will be doing more events at) as there are always those things that are specific to a location.

Minnesota Recruiters On KARE 11 TV Give Job Seekers Advice

Last week during our Minnesota Recruiters Conference we were visited by Scott Goldberg @ScottGoldberg of KARE 11 TV (local NBC affiliate) who was curious about our event and how we could get some information out to job seekers about the job search and some additional tools they could be using.

That was easy enough after all we had 200 of us at the event and many companies who are doing some really cool things to better interact with candidates.

Interviewed:

Steve Lewis, Executive Director, Talent Acquisition at Deluxe Corporation

Kevin Gunn, Director Talent Acquisition & Development at ev3

Rebecca Warren, Recruiting Manager at General Mills

And me.

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 11 #mnrec Twitter Stream

 

What follows is an unedited digest of the Tweets from the July 30th, 2010 Minnesota Recruiters Conference 11 (including the days leading up to and a couple after it) as picked up from What The Hashtag?! using #mnrec

It looks like they picked up most if not all of the Tweets from the event.

NOTE: the time stamp is +5 hours. In other words a Tweet at 4 PM was done at 11 AM

Here goes…

July 26, 2010

7:12 pm
MNOnlineGuy:
RT @steffenson: RT @Minnesotakevin: Employee Referral Programs: Take your ERP to the ER! #mnrec

7:17 pm
steffenson:
RT @Minnesotakevin: Employee Referral Programs: You down with ERP? Yeah you know me! #mnrec

7:18 pm
steffenson:
RT @Minnesotakevin: Employee Referral Programs: The ABCs of our ERP. #mnrec

7:50 pm
catsone:
#mnrec 11 update: Minnesota Recruiters Conference 11 is now 70% full: http://minnesotarecruiterssummer2010.eventbrite.com

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 11 | Summer 2010 Invite

The 11^th Minnesota Recruiters Conference will be held July 30^th, 2010 at General Mills Corporate Headquarters.

We are getting back to our original idea with this event and holding a structured unconference.

Our first couple of events had 125 or so in attendance and it was a lot easier to have conversations with the presenters. As demand and space grew we went in the direction of a more traditional event of speakers and attendees.

For this event we will start with a recruiter panel and then move into 3 sessions that are 45 minutes in length. We will have 4 sessions going at a time.

Attendees are encourage to participate, ask questions, engage with the session leaders.

Minnesota Recruiters FAQ’s

UPDATED: August 2010

 

I get a lot of questions about how this informal group was started and included the following information in an email as an introduction as our colleagues would join the group site or LinkedIn group.

But it has become rather long so a blog post is needed and will point them here.

 

Minnesota Recruiters FAQ’s

Web site:

Minnesota Recruiters

LinkedIn group (Minnesota Recruiter and HR professionals):

Minnesota Recruiters LinkedIn Group

Newsletter:

1^st and 3^rd week of the month

LinkUp.com Hosts Social Recruiting Summit TweetUp

 
Minneapolis based LinkUp.com hosted a TweetUp (for the non Twitter folks think Happy Hour or reception) May 16th, 2010 for those attending the Social Recruiting Summit and some Minnesota Recruiters.

 
I wrote about LinkUp in the post announcing the TweetUp LinkUp.com Sponsors Social Recruiting Summit Happy Hour 

I would have to guess but there had to be at least 100 attendees and was held at Crave Restaurant at the Mall of America.

It was a great evening. For me (personally) it was an opportunity to meet friends in person who I have been following online, swapping email with and having phone chats with for years.

Nothing, NOTHING is better than finally being able to shake hands, give a hug and sit down and chat face to face. I know that may sound odd but while online networks are awesome nothing takes the place of seeing a friend in person.

LinkUp.com Sponsors Social Recruiting Summit Happy Hour

Minneapolis based LinkUp.com (and good friends of mine and the local Recruiter and HR community) are hosting a social gathering on the eve of the Social Recruiting Summit.

Details of the event:

LinkUp's Social Recruiting Summit TweetUp

Sunday, May 16th • 6:00 - 9:00pm

CRAVE Restaurant
Mall of America • Park Side Patio
368 South Avenue • Bloomington, MN 55425
(3rd Floor across from Macy's)

For more information and to RSVP click LinkUp Rocks

Minneapolis Hosts ERE And Social Recruiting Summit

Tomorrow (May 17, 2010) Minnesota will host 300 attendees for the 3^rd edition of the Social Recruiting Summit.

Previous summits were held at Google headquarters and in the Big Apple, New York City.

The Minnesota event will be held at Best Buy headquarters in Richfield, MN (a suburb of Minneapolis).

You can catch a live stream of many of the sessions by clicking www.ere.net

Some folks have asked how the heck did Minneapolis land such a big event?

Well, I am not going to be shy about it but a few of us did a lot of lobbying. I think my first email was about 30 minutes after the event at Google ended.

Minnesota Recruiters Hiring And Jobs Survey | Spring 2010

Leading up to Minnesota Recruiters Conference 10 held April 30^th, 2010 at Best Buy Headquarters I sent out a Survey Monkey link to gauge what hiring looked like during Q1 of 2010 along with expectations of Q2 and 2010 in general, what jobs and skill sets were most an least in demand and how Recruiters and HR professionals felt about their own job security.

This is not a scientific survey. The survey link was sent multiple times to the Minnesota Recruiters email list of 1900 Recruiter and HR professionals with a 10% response rate.

While not scientific the results do show what most in the Recruiter and HR community have been seeing and talking about over the past weeks and points of conversation during the conference.

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 10 | Spring 2010 | Recap

Wow, we made it to 10 events in less than 3 years. There are days when it feels like 1 and days when it is like 100.

The constant about the events is that feedback is always very positive with a few critiques along the way on how to make things better, more engaging or new topics to cover.

Something I only spoke with a few people over the past year was that these events were starting to take a toll on me. I liked having them be free as we had sponsors who were willing to support the events and the group.

The issue was as the group was growing (now 2,000 on the email list) and planning an event was taking about a full week to do.

So with the support of the co founders, sponsors and asking some people from the group I chose to start charging $25 for each event.

Some suggested the fee be $40 and others $50 but all agreed something was in order.

Funny thing, after all the conversations and my worrying about it, turned out to be not such a big deal.