This audio conference was recorded on Friday - January 30, 2009

Credits:

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification.

Description:

Ready to find cream-of-the-crop candidates for your job openings? In today’s ultra-competitive market, you’ll have to move beyond newspaper classifieds and job fairs as you search for the best applicants, as more companies begin posting positions and working the listings on major social networking sites such as MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Millions of Americans – from newly minted college graduates to baby boomers and seniors with lengthy resumes – have logged into these popular websites, creating personal profiles, posting their resumes and job experience, and sharing their networks of colleagues and friends. If you learn the rules (both spoken and unspoken) for navigating these sites, you can locate extremely qualified candidates for your workforce and position your organization as a welcoming place for jobseekers.

During this practical 90-minute audio conference recording, you’ll learn the best practices for recruiting using the leading Internet social networks. Our expert will explain how these sites work and how you can search them to find the best job candidates. Also, you’ll discover the most successful ways to approach possible applicants and check them out without violating social networking rules (or state and federal discrimination laws). Plus, you’ll gain tips for using social networking to reduce your recruiting costs and streamline your hiring decisions.

Speaker(s):

Anne Nimke is co-founder and executive consultant of Pinstripe, Inc., a leading human resources and recruitment outsourcing company. Pinstripe designs, builds, and manages large-scale talent acquisition solutions for clients in a wide variety of industries, from financial services and healthcare to technology and telecommunications. With thirty years of experience in human resources and staffing, Nimke is a recognized national expert in the recruiting arena. In prior roles, she has served on the executive teams at several of the country’s leading HR and staffing firms. She speaks frequently at HR and recruiting industry events and conferences. Nimke currently serves as vice chair of the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association, and she has worked as president of Metropolitan Milwaukee SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) and as state conference chair for Wisconsin SHRM. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Marquette University.

Robin McMahon is a senior recruiter at Pinstripe. With almost 20 years of experience encompassing a variety of industries and positions, she advises employers in many different direct and indirect recruiting methods, as well as Internet recruiting, recruitment advertising, applicant tracking technologies, and behaviorally based interviewing. She is an expert in many types of recruitment technologies, and she has been involved in implementing and contributing to key design elements of ATS functionality for several systems. McMahon has helped clients automate and report key metrics of diversity, cycle time, and cost pe hire that have been critical in facilitating key workforce planning decisions.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• How the leading online social networks (LinkedIn, MySpace, and Facebook) work – from the perspectives of both HR professionals and potential employees
• The initial steps you should take to create a presence on these sites and search for possible job candidates
• The most effective ways to make initial contact with candidates you’ve found on online networks
• Why your current employees can become your best ambassadors on these sites to attract new hires
• How you can use social networks to review resume details and check references (without running into trouble)
• The biggest mistakes made by employers to recruit workers via these sites – and how you can avoid repeating them