#FIRMday 'Resourcing Strategy - Insight & Innovation'

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The FIRM is delighted to bring you a new #FIRMday conference for London. This conference will give you the opportunity to gain insights into innovative resourcing strategies spanning attraction, selection and onboarding. Plus some practical 'how to' advice as well as the usual peer to peer networking opportunities. Open to in-house recruiters only it will be held on Thursday 15th May 2014 in Central London

Using the same double-stream model that has proved so popular and successful we are again structuring the day with a range of plenary sessions, two streams of practical syndicate sessions and the ever popular and useful round table discussion. This will give you the opportunity and the flexibility to choose which of the syndicate sessions/workshops you would most like to attend.

The day will give you the opportunity to gain insights into good practice and some practical 'how to' advice in some of the recruiting essentials that we often take for granted.

Doors will open for coffee, registration and a chance to meet up with friends and colleagues at 0800

The conference will kick off at 0900.

Sessions will include

Ben Jackson, Director at GradWeb "Digital Natives versus the ATS Dinosaurs"

Today’s Future Talent recruitment challenges are dominated by the need to truly engage with a new generation of Digital Natives. This wave of young people, sometimes referred to as Generation Z, is the first to grow up entirely during the digital revolution.

• Understand Digital Natives characteristics
• Does recruitment technology today meet the expectations of Digital Natives?
• What impact will Digital Natives have on recruitment technology
• How to use recruitment technology to engage Digital Natives

Kevin Keegan, Recruitment Manager and Nick Halder L&D Manager at Fidessa in conjunction with Cornerstone OnDemand "Talent Pipeline & Internal Capability"

• Why a strategy for identifying internal talent is key to building capability within an organisation
• Easy and efficient ways for everyone in the organisation to explore their networks for talent
• Building a robust succession plan by building an internal pipeline

Amanda Davies of ISV Skills Testing and David Barrett from Cut-e "Using Testing to Identify Top Talent" - Talent sourcing and development is always high on the agenda but in candidate heavy marketplace how do you find the ideal candidate to fit not just your job spec but your culture too? You need to pinpoint quickly who the more competent candidates are. But what do you need to consider when testing candidates and what are the biggest pitfalls to avoid?

• Hear from 2 of the most popular skills testing and behavioural profiling companies
• Learn what’s changed and what’s new in candidate testing and benchmarking
• Understand what common mistakes are made when testing for talent
• Develop your knowledge on the wide variety of behavioural tests available and gain ideas on what would best fit your business
• Gain an insight into how in-house recruiters use candidate testing

James Pervis Head of Talent at CERN - "Extreme Recruitment" - Join James, the Head of Talent at the largets non-commercial collaboration in Europe, as he explores the extrmemes of recruitment. James discusses the challenges that the CERN Recruitment Team face dail. Hear how the team work to maximise the success of their integrated recruitment strategy and hoiw it can be as dramatically different as the collision temperature of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to temperatures 3 times colder than the Antarctic.

Jeremy Ovenden from Hireserve and Jon Davies from Chatterand help you navigate the maze of an ATS selection. "Selecting an ATS – Hazards & Pitfalls". Referencing real customer projects, Jeremy and Jon will equip you with the insight you need to manage an ATS selection project.

Matthew Sinclair of SMRS and Tony Walton, Lead Recruitment Partner at Compass will discuss how Compass Transformed their Candidate Journey

• Building an Employer Brand - the SMRS IDeA Framework
• Activating the message - a responsive careers site and the ATS
• Translating the message for the internal audience
• The Candidate Journey - the next steps

After a successful and extremely well received session at #FIRMday Manchester in March, Suhkvinder Pabial, Head of OD at One Housing Group, will again share his expertise with Positive Psychology in this personal development session; 'Using Positive Psychology to help you better Understand the Human Condition and how it can help recruiters better understand and get the best from candidate engagement.

Nick Thompson, Resourcing Specialist at Thames Water plc will discuss how he and Thames Water have achieved Success on a Shoestring

Innovation needn’t cost the earth but it must be essential. Find out how Thames Water reduced their cost per hire and time to hire by over 70% in a 4 year period.

Over the past few years Thames Water have undertaken some drastic changes to drive cost efficiencies and improvements in candidate experience all of which have been self-funded by previous savings made. Hear how these savings and changes came about and how you can also look to implement changes like these.

Tom Chesterton of Tonic Agency will discuss 'Don’t think about your brand, think about your reputation'

As employers we know we need to stand out from the crowd, but looking great just isn’t good enough anymore. The temptation might be to advertise more to become more visible – but is that exactly the right answer? Doesn’t that just lead to an ‘arms race’ of communication? In this session Tonic will look at the myths, home-truths and philosophy of brand and communication. There is a better way, and it might be easier than you think

• Marvellous marketing hyperbole
• Socially, life just gets in the way
• Push is dead. Like a dodo
• Friend of mine not front of mind
• Reputation. And the role of brand. And the role of you.