Minnesota Headhunter

Event: Terry Petra Presenting At MNTRN

This week MNTRN (Minnesota Technical Recruiters Network) is hosting Terry Petra. This will be my first time meeting Terry and I am looking forward to it. He has a great reputation as a trainer and I am going to ready to take some notes.

Event info:

“Just Do It … Right!”

Terry Petra, CPC, CTS, CIPC

This fast paced, action packed program will show you how to get top results regardless of economic uncertainties! We’ll begin by taking a look at the differences between those who succeed by making a positive difference from those who do not, while keeping in mind “The Success Question”.

Minnesota Headhunter Brown Bag Lunch With Recruiter And HR Friends

This is an idea that I have had for more than a year now and I want to float it out “there” and see what happens.

Back when I was coordinating the Minnesota Recruiters group I never had time to see friends and make new ones at events. I was busy making sure wireless microphones had batteries, slides were ready and we had enough coffee.

After an event there were always a number of email exchanged with friends with something like:

Hey I saw you, but you were busy.

Were you there? I didn’t see you.

We should get together the next week or two.

And it never happened.

Minnesota Recruiter Contract Rates Spring 2014

As recruiting gets more and more competitive in Minneapolis the number of inquiries I am receiving that sound like:

Hey Paul, you know any available IT contract recruiters?

How much is a contract recruiter going to cost me?

Do I know any available IT contract recruiters?

No. They are all working.

How much?

That depends.

I asked a bunch of friends what they are seeing for rates and it mostly jived with what I have been seeing.

I also sent an email to Adam Sprecher, Managing Director at SALO. Adam is my “go to guy” when I am looking for trends, news, salaries and in general “what is going on” in Minneapolis kind of stuff.

What I sent him is in plain text and his reply in bold:

Event: Minnesota Recruiters Spring 2014 Conference

The 20 something Minnesota Recruiters Conference is Friday, March 14th from 8 am to noon at the Mall of America.

This will be the first event since we started the group in 2007 that I have not a role in an event.

And the first time I have to pay to attend… I should have negotiated a lifetime ticket.

I am looking forward to being “just an attendee” and hope there will be a couple of Diet Mountain Dews on hand.

While speakers have not been named here is the agenda for the event:

Minnesota Recruiters Summer 2013 Conference

The next Minnesota Recruiters Conference is next week… Thursday, July 25th from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm, at the the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest (formerly the Northland Inn).

This is the 21st conference held (I think, I have lost track) since the group started 6 years ago almost to the day of this event.

Registration is open until 5 pm Monday, July 22nd.

Cost of the event is $55 and includes:

• Conference sessions and materials
• Continental breakfast and beverages
• A free professional LinkedIn profile photo (we will have a photographer on-site)
• Book signing after the event by William Arruda
• Tremendous networking opportunities with other professionals and thought leaders responsible for attracting, developing, and retaining talent in leading organizations - throughout the region.

Who should attend? Professionals interested in networking and learning about:

• Personal branding
• Online identity
• Career success
• Becoming influential in the workplace
• Mobile marketing
• Recruiting

Click Minnesota Recruiters Summer 2013 Conference to register and for the agenda.

Speakers & Session Information:

 

Minnesota Recruiters Hiring And Jobs Survey | Spring 2012

 

What follows below are the results from our 7th Minnesota Recruiters  hiring and jobs survey.

Disclaimers:

- This is not a scientific survey but it does give a good read on what is going right now by folks who are recruiting

- This is a blind survey and no one (me included) gets to know who participated or what their answers were

Observations:

- The results are nearly identical to the Fall 2011 survey

- Hiring continues to be strongest with jobs requiring a 2 or 4 year degree

Minnesota Recruiters Conference #15 | Recap

I am going to be doing a recap with information from our November 2011 event at General Mills but I need to post this now to keep the chronology correct in the archive.

Bookmark this link and come back in a couple of days.

Minnesota Recruiters Hiring And Jobs Survey | Fall 2011

I am going to post the survey results from our last fall hiring survey but I need to post this now to keep the chronology correct in the archive.

Bookmark this link and come back in a couple of days.

Minnesota Recruiters Conference #14 | Recap

I am going to be doing a recap with information from our June 2011 event at General Mills but I need to post this now to keep the chronology correct in the archive.

Bookmark this link and come back in a couple of days.

Minnesota Recruiters Conference #14 #mnrec Twitter Transcript

 

Here is the digest of (most of the) #mnrec Tweets from the June 10th, 2011 Minnesota Recruiters Conference #14 event at General Mills.

I say “most of” because I did not grab the Tweets until about 4 days later and not all of them could be found. I pieced most of them together using a couple of different sources so anything that has been omitted is not intended.

These are in reverse chronological order so scroll down to the bottom of the post and work your way up.

Here goes…

Minnesota Recruiters Conference #14 Agenda

Yes, I know I am posting this 6 days after the event but in wanting to keep a historical record and doing it now anyway…

Below is the agenda for Minnesota Recruiters Conference #14 to be held June 10th, 2011 at General Mills corporate HQ’s.

The goal of this event is to do a few "how to's" but mostly to start conversations, create ideas and find new ways to do what we do. Your questions, comments and interaction will be what makes this event a success.

Thank you to Rebecca Warren, Angie Stein and the team at General Mills for hosting us.

Who should attend this event:

Corporate Recruiters

HR VPs/Directors/Managers

Staffing Specialists/Managers

HR Recruiters

Workforce Planning Professionals

Researchers/Sourcers

Search Firm Professionals

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 13 | Recap

 

On April 15th, 2011 we held the 13th Minnesota Recruiters Conference at Best Buy HQ’s. We had around 200 in attendance that day.

The night before the event sponsors, speakers and volunteers were invited to Oberon (group sponsor) to help celebrate their 5th Anniversary

  

This gave me some time to finally meet in person someone who I have called friend for 5+ years, Jim Durbin (Blog - Twitter - LinkedIn - Facebook). I met Jim online shortly after I started this blog when he was working as a recruiter in St. Louis.

For our event we brought Jim and his business partner Craig Fisher (Blog - Twitter - LinkedIn) to present to the group.

Minnesota Recruiters Hiring And Jobs Survey | Spring 2011

 

What follows below are the results from our 4th Minnesota Recruiters hiring and jobs survey.

Let me get the disclaimers and details out of the way out of the way:

- This is not a scientific survey but it does give a good read on what is going on

- This is a blind survey and no one (me included) gets to know who participated or what their answers were

- The survey was open from April 1st to 20th

- We had fewer replies than previous surveys and I believe most of that is due to me not sending as many reminders about it.

Minnesota Recruiters Conference #13 | Invite

What follows is the invite that was sent to the Minnesota Recruiters group leading up to Minnesota Recruiters Conference #13

Friends and Colleagues,

Below is the agenda for Minnesota Recruiters Conference #13.

Thank you to Jeremy Phillips, Joshua Kahn and the team at Best Buy for hosting us.

When:

April 15, 2010

Where:

Best Buy Corporate HQ’s

Who should attend this event:

Corporate Recruiters

HR VPs/Directors/Managers

Staffing Specialists/Managers

HR Recruiters

Workforce Planning Professionals

Researchers/Sourcers

Search Firm Professionals

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 | Recap

I am going to be doing a repost with information from our December 2010 event at General Mills but I need to post this now to keep the chronology correct in the archive.

Bookmark this link and come back in a couple of days.

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 #mnrec Twitter Stream

Here is the digest of #mnrec Tweets from the December 3rd, 2010 Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 event at General Mills (including a day leading up to and after it).

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

Here goes…

December 2, 2010

1:46 am
MNHeadhunter:
Looking forward to my friend speaking at #mnrec --> RT @joegerstandt: Its minneapolis or bust tomorrow. #roadtrip

1:51 am
joegerstandt:
Whoops, I left out that hashtag! RT @MNHeadhunter #mnrec --> RT @joegerstandt: Its minneapolis or bust tomorrow. #roadtrip

3:55 am
joegerstandt:
Looking forward to talking about social capital! RT @MNHeadhunter: Looking forward to my friend speaking at #mnrec

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 | Fall 2010 Invite

Plans are set for our 12th Minnesota Recruiters event and many thanks to the team at General Mills for hosting us.

To register for this event click Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12

Who should attend this event:

Corporate Recruiters
HR VPs/Directors/Managers
Staffing Specialists/Managers
HR Recruiters
Workforce Planning Professionals
Researchers/Sourcers
Search Firm Professionals

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 | Fall 2010 | Save The Date

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 | Fall 2010 will be held December 3, 2010 from 8 AM to Noon at General Mills Headquarters

For this event we will have a 3 speaker format similar to previous events. For those curious about why not the small group discussions there were a number of attendees who suggested alternating between the two formats.

I asked, they spoke and I heard. We will do small group sessions at our next event

November 15th I will send out the formal invite and registration link.

Between now and the event we will be scheduling webinars in November with sessions from previous events.

Thanks to our Minnesota Recruiters 2010 Sponsors (click logo for company web site):

Minnesota Recruiters Hiring And Jobs Survey | Fall 2010

 

We just completed our 3^rd Minnesota Recruiters hiring survey and little did I know when I started doing these surveys how much more of an education I would get regarding employment, hiring and job creation leading into and coming out of a recession.

I have followed these kinds of statistics for my 13 years and being able to see this in “real time” is fascinating.

Let me get the disclaimers and details out of the way out of the way:

- This is not a scientific survey but it does give a good read on what is going on

- This is a blind survey and no one (me included) gets to know who participated and what their answers are

- 2,100 were sent the survey link and about 10% replied

- The survey was open from Oct 5^th to the 15^th

Between events, conferences, conversation and client feedback the survey results match what I have been seeing which is this:

The Great Recession put us into ICU. We have been upgraded to Critical, Serious and now Fair condition. I doubt we see Good condition until Q2 2011 and we may still be in the hospital much of 2011.

That while there are pockets of strength in hiring and the number of jobs open (and opening) will continue to grow it will do so at an anemic pace.

Free Webinar: Optimizing Your Job Postings

 

Minnesota Recruiters and Monster.com are hosting a free webinar tomorrow, August 31^st from 1-2 PM Central time titled “Optimizing Your Job Postings”.

You do not need to be a member of Minnesota Recruiters and heck, if you are outside of Minnesota and reading this join in on the session.

To register click --> Optimizing Your Job Postings

Webinar Information:

What do job seekers look for in a job posting? 

How do they search, when do they search, and what turns a job seeker into a potential candidate? 

By exploring seeker insights and best practices, we’ll answer all of these questions and more as we use best practices and data from Monster’s unique audience examine how to optimize your job postings to attract the best people.