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Going Mobile

When I attended The ERE Expo Everyone was talking about mobile. Mobile recruiting is not something brand new, but it is a movement that has traction. The early adopters are having a lot of success with mobile sourcing, and candidates will benefit tremendously. Last week, I attended a webinar hosted by Jessica Miller Merrell, and Rayanne Thorn. The validated my thoughts, and feelings on this topic. Both ERE, and the webinar hit home several critical concepts.

1. Companies are launching mobile apps that will both advertise jobs, and lead applicants directly to their online application (ATS).
2. Recruiters are now holding court at public restaurants, and coffee shops, and crowd sourcing candidates through apps on their smartphone.  This is a brilliant way to advertise jobs, and a innovative, cost effective way to do on the spot interviews.
3. Because digital media, and social networks are becoming more sophisticated each day, tracking metrics is easy, and manageable.
4. Building a mobile pipeline of candidates is now possible, and as time goes on will get faster, better, and smarter.
5. Candidates benefit because they can now take advantage of mobile apps to source, and access jobs that fit their expertise.
6. Everyone wins but the job boards, because now employers don’t have to allocate as much of their budgets because social media is free.  Everyone is using it, and the ease of access is a two way street.  Candidates get access to recruiters, and thought leaders. Recruiters, and employers can pick the cream of the social media crop, and everybody wins.

On October 24, I’m attending the ERE Innovation Summit at Facebook.  I’m excited about this opportunity, and will continue sharing more information with you!

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Cameras were rolling as the live stream blasted viral over the web. Key boards were burning from the finger tips of people tweeting rapidly, both at the conference, and inside offices around the world. If you haven’t been paying attention to the feed at EREexpo-it’s not too late. Hurry. You have one more day to reel in the information that’s flowing at lightening speed. Trends were unveiled. Raw data that hasn’t yet seen the light of day was secretly divulged to an exclusive group in a select break out session. A famous football coach (from OSU) gave an inspirational speech that made every recruiter in the room open their minds and take notice. The sponsors stole the show with eye popping exhibits, and open arms. Four words come to mind to describe my first impressions; inclusiveness, encouragement, and intellectual empowerment.

The highlight of the conference for me on both a personal, and professional level, was getting face time with my mentor, Don Ramer, CEO of Arbita.  I was thrilled to see Shannon Myers of Walton Research. Elaine Orler stole the show with her information about “The Candidate Experience.”  There are no words to describe just how much I liked each of the sessions.  This year, I had a different strategy than the previous year.  I made a decision to spend time meeting the exhibitors at the Expo, and to interact with the sponsors, and vendor partners.  Far too often people go to conferences to only attend the sessions.  I found equal value in the time I invested speaking with the people who were bringing the new technology to organizations.  That’s where the value is.  That’s where the real knowledge is exchanged.  It’s the one to one interaction that made the whole experience come to life.

Whether you were new to the occupation, returning to the occupation, a trench practitioner, or an old pro-everyone had a place, everyone learned, everyone grew, and most importantly everyone had an impact. Each person brought something interesting to the conference, be it a fresh perspective, a point of view, a tip, top technical tool, or a new way to solve a problem. What stands out in my mind as memorable is how each presenter brought their own panache, clarity, passion, knowledge, and incisive wisdom.

Old friends embraced, new friends met enthusiastically, and people were gathered in twos, and threes exchanging valuable information. This is what I call a successful conference. ERE Expo would not be complete if it wasn’t for it’s charity poker game. Sure, poker is being played, people are having fun, but did you know that the proceeds of the game go directly to charities that support educational initiatives? This year (and the count isn’t final) $8,000 was raised.

Tomorrow, I’m going to discuss in great detail what I took away from each session. I will then share information about the people I met, and interviewed for this blog. Tonight, I will leave you with this message from Mr. Todd Raphael from ERE.

Your roving reporter,

@HRMargo
Social Media Recruiter
Founder of HireFriday and HFChat

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You can’t go anywhere in the recruiting industry without hearing two names uttered: Gerry Crispin and Glenn Gutmacher. Master consultants, they lead our industry with the vision of leadership. Glen and Gerry equally impressed me because of their commitment to developing our future leaders. Not just in our industry, but in many industries, Crispin and Gutmacher wave the flag of corporate responsibility.
Compassionate HR is committed to shining a light on great leaders doing great things. In the words of Gerry Crispin, Board member of ERE: “World Class Recruiters are not just people who are good at what they do, they are individuals who are doing great things in their communities.”

Tune in this evening and hear their stories. Glen was kind enough to post the following paragraph on Arbita’s website:

Beyond Job Boards on CompassionateHR Blog Talk Radio

Glenn Gutmacher
Arbita’s Glenn Gutmacher and recruiting industry guru Gerry Crispin are the guests on the next edition of the popular online radio show, Compassionate HR, hosted by Margo Rose (also known as HRMargo). The topic will be “Beyond Job Boards”, the methods behind the popular webinar developed by Glenn and Shally that help job-seekers expand their methods for finding full-time or project work by using completely free online methods. Gerry is involved because he invited Glenn to present the webinar for the alumni association of his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology (one of several universities whose alumni associations have raved about Glenn and this webinar). Together, they will talk about this innovative example of how world-class recruiting research / sourcing methods can be flipped to benefit the job-seeker community — techniques that are 100% free to job-seekers to implement — in a way that scales better than 1-on-1 career counseling (though that’s very important work, too!) and open the discussion to other ways that recruiters can give back as well.

Login on Monday, March 22 at 7:30pm US Eastern Daylight Time / 4:30pm US Pacific to listen and/or ask your questions at

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/comphr

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