Welcome To Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp
June 2017
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UPDATE: 4 days to go!!!
After having this idea for a few years and being a part of many recruiting conversations around Minneapolis/St Paul and the Midwest the past six months it’s time to do a conference bootcamp. And while I have had a lot of support to do this... it is this LinkedIn post in May that created a lot of positive reaction and email and when I was all in on this:
We have seen the surveys and stories that say Minneapolis/St Paul will be short 100,000 workers by 2020. Same story for other cities in the Midwest. Others say that 30% - 60% of workers (nationally) are looking for a new job. Yet… we can’t find who we are looking for and most companies talk about a shortage of talent.
So… July 31st and August 1st 2017 I will be hosting a first of its kind Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. Here is the venue with seating for 250:
10 speakers and 2 days of nuts and bolts, blocking and tackling…recruiter training. We will not be talking about trends or 30,000 foot strategic views…only how to’s. My goal is for us to have fun, be casual, engage and interact with each other and for you to leave at the end of day two tired with a fried brain and a toolbox of new things to experiment with and implement.
I have put together a speaker list of local, regional and national experts who have experience recruiting in and to the Midwest. Some have spoken at events in Minneapolis and others you have read or seen speak at ERE, SourceCon, TalentNet, Recruiting Daily and Fistful of Talent.
When:
- July 31st and August 1st
- 8 am to 4 pm
Where:
- University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management
Agenda
Monday, July 31st:
8:30 - 8:45
- Introductions
8:45 - 9:45
- Create Winning Employer Brand for Knockout Recruitment
Maren Hogan - Founder and CEO of Red Branch Media, an agency offering marketing strategy and outsourcing and thought leadership to HR and Recruiting Technology and Services organizations internationally. Maren is a consistent advocate of next generation marketing techniques with over 15 years of experience in the HR and Recruitment space. She has built successful online communities, deployed brand strategies and been a thought leader in the global recruitment and talent space.. You can read more of her work on Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and the Red Branch Media blog
9:45 – 10:45
- 10 ways to build diversity, practice inclusion and increase engagement within your organization
Caroline Karanja - Caroline Karanja is the founder of 26 Letters, a SaaS data-driven solution for employee engagement and inclusion. 26 Letters emphasizes results-driven approaches to diversity, engagement and inclusion. Caroline's mission to facilitate personal and professional growth in these topics are embedded in the 26 Letters approach, workshops and products. Caroline has guided culture and inclusion initiatives at fast-growing startups, colleges and universities and non profits. Her academic background is rooted in cultural and social studies and its application in the private sector.
10:45 – 11:15
- Networking Break
11:15 – 12:15
- Selling Minnesota: Strategies And Tools to Improve Recruiting To The Region
Nick Roseth - COO of SWAT Solutions and Founder of DocuMNtary - Nick is a passionate technology leader that works at the intersection of business, creative, and technology. Over the course of a 20 year career in digital, he has touched design, development, marketing, management, leadership, and more. With his creation of DocuMNtary and involvement in Make It MSP, Nick is a strong advocate and evangelist of the creative and technology communities in Minnesota.
12:15 – 1:30
- Lunch
1:30 – 2:30
- Attracting and Keeping Top Talent… A Legal Perspective
Teresa Thompson is the Chair of Fredrikson & Byron Non-Compete and Trade Secrets Group, and an MSBA Certified Labor and Employment Law Specialist. Teresa litigates, advises and speaks on the many issues arising from the use of technology in the workplace—including theft of trade secrets and confidential information, employee use of social media and mobile devices, monitoring, data security, and privacy.
2:30 – 2:45
- Break
2:45 – 3:45
10 Truths Of Recruiting And Why You Are Failing At Them
Tim Sackett -Tim Sackett, SHRM, SCP, SPHR is the President of HRU Technical Resources a leading IT and Engineering Staffing firm headquartered in Lansing, MI. Tim has 20 years of combined Executive HR and Talent Acquisition experience, working for Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, retail, dining and technology. Tim is a highly sought after national speaker on leadership, talent acquisition and HR execution. He also is a prolific writer in the HR and Talent space, writing for Fistful of Talent and his blog The Tim Sackett Project. Tim is married to a hall of fame wife and has three sons and one dog. In 2015, he was named one of the Top 50 Recruiting, and HR Thought Leaders to follow on Twitter by Glassdoor, which gives him mad street cred with his teenage sons. He is a lifelong workplace advocate for Diet Mt. Dew fountain machines and hugs.
LinkedIn | @TimSackett | The Tim Sackett Project | Fistful of Talent
3:45 – 4:00
- Wrap up
4:00 – 5:00
- We have the room to mingle around and chat if we want to
Tuesday, August 1st:
8:30 - 8:45
- Announcements
8:45 - 9:45
- In OR out? Creative Sourcing Techniques to Find Your Candidates OUTside the box
Shannon Pritchett - Editor of SourceCon - As a lifelong student in the recruitment industry, Shannon is passionate about improving it. Shannon has a diverse background in training, sourcing, international recruitment, full desk recruiting, coaching, and journalism. Shannon got her start in the recruitment industry at Vanderbilt University and later worked as a Senior Recruiter for Internal Data Resources and Community Health Systems, Social Media Recruitment Ambassador for T-Mobile USA, Director of Recruiting for Moxy, Trainer with AIRS, and last as a Manager of Global Sourcing and Training for ManpowerGroup Solutions RPO.
9:45 – 10:45
- 8 Mistakes You're Making: The New Rules Of LinkedIn
Jim Durbin - Founder of SourcingWorklab.com - As a marketer and recruiter, he's been placing people since 1999. In the last decade, he's been known as the Social Media Headhunter, where he's trained over 9,000 recruiters on digital tools. He runs a B2B marketing firm, develops startups in the AI and recruiting space, and takes as many full desk searches as he can get his hands on. He predicted the demise of LinkedIn in 3 years, quit Twitter in 2016, and writes regularly in industry publications and on his blog
10:45 - 11:15
- Networking Break
11:15 – 12:15
- Live Interviewing of Candidates
Yes… live interviewing. A couple of our speakers will show their interview strategies.
12:15 – 1:30
- Lunch
1:30 – 2:30
- Talent Without Borders
Raleigh Miller has 12 years of experience in HR, the last 8 years focusing on talent acquisition, talent management and culture. Over the 12 years of experience in HR, immigration has been a core function of her responsibilities. Raleigh’s work is focused on finding the best people for the best job in the best way possible. Through innovation and championing efforts like sponsorship, Raleigh believes that people are what differentiates companies from good to great, they are the true competitive advantage.
Rajkumar Vyas is a Carlson MBA Alum from the recently graduated Class of 2017. Raaj, as he likes to call himself, comes from the state of Gujarat in Western India. Before coming to the US, he spent four years in the tech industry working on software implementations. His passion for startups took him to work for the tech transfer office at the UofM where he helped commercialize university technologies. He was part of a technology startup that won the student division of Minnesota cup last year. His interest in sitting at the intersection of business and technology took him to Digital River, where he is currently working as a Technical Product Manager. Raaj likes to spend time on creating digital content and learning new skills.
2:30 – 2:45
- Break
2:45 – 3:45
- Create and Grow Your Recruiter Brand
Paul DeBettignies - Better known online as Minnesota Headhunter. He is a Minnesota Recruiter, Evangelist and Advisor who builds teams with startups and tech companies, creates recruiting strategies for Fortune 500 clients and is the author of Minnesota Headhunter, the longest running regional recruiter blog. He is a frequent local and national speaker, trainer and subject matter expert on recruiter, HR, career, networking and social media topics. Activities include presentations at Twin Cities Startup Week, Google for Entrepreneurs, Michigan Recruiters Conference, MN HR Tech Expo, Social Media Breakfast, University of Minnesota, Target, CHS, MinneBar and ERE and interviews with NPR, WCCO AM (CBS) Radio & TV, KARE TV (NBC), MSP Business Journal, Minneapolis StarTribune and Dice.com Paul is involved in the Minneapolis and St Paul technology, marketing and social media communities as a sponsor of Twin Cities Startup Week, MinneBar & MinneDemo and DocuMNtary, an advisor to The Iron Yard and Make It MSP, mentor to recruiters and technologists and is the founder of Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp.
3:45 – 4:00
- Wrap up
4:00 – 5:00
We have the room to mingle around and chat if we want to
Slide decks:
- Sent after the event
WiFi:
- Available and free… bring your devices
Food and beverage:
- Light breakfast
- Lunch
- Afternoon snack break
- Caffeine and water
Cost:
- Event Pass: $399
- NOTE: tickets are NON refundable but they are transferable
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Event hashtag:
- #MWRecCamp
Who should attend:
- Corporate Recruiters
- HR Generalists
- Search Firm & Consulting Firm Recruiters
- Staffing Specialists
- Workforce Planning Professionals
- Researchers/Sourcers
- Recruiting Managers
- Hiring Managers
- Startup CEO’s
More who should attend (examples)… anyone who is recruiting and/or sourcing:
- For a startup in the North Loop of Minneapolis
- For a Fortune 500 company in the Midwest
- For a manufacturing company in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
- For a non profit needing FTE’s, volunteers and/or an advisory board
- As search firm recruiter in Des Moines, Iowa
- Not in a major population area and trying to recruit to your region
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Don’t you think it is time to amp up your game?
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