Hiring Success EUAgenda
Organizations are collections of people. Those that employ top talent, celebrate diversity, and direct them towards a common goal, win. Having created 3 organizations and dedicated his life to this purpose, Jerome will share his vision for Hiring Success.
Welcome to the journey on how Facebook build it’s AR/VR teams in Zurich. We will dive into a thrilling hiring process by gamifying it. We’ll electro-magically get €100k of play money to send the top three hackers to the final interview round on day 2.
Heineken created a brand that resonates with consumers and job applicants in every corner of the globe. It’s easy to attribute their success to budget, but that’s just half the story. This session will reveal the inner mechanics of a campaign that took their brand to another level. We’ll learn how to create an authentic story, how to launch an internal marketing campaign that empowers every employee to share the story, and how to tie it to the business model to hit the bull’s eye.
Globalization is great! It levels the playing field and it brings talent from all over the world towards a common goal. But do the employees in country #57 still feel included and connected to the company HQ? Probably not. This session will reveal best practices from 50 enterprises to help you gain the tools to inspire your remote workforce.
The average hiring process has more than 80 steps. 80 ways for you to mess up or 80 ways for you to craft an amazing experience for candidates and hiring managers alike. With the 10 principles, you and your team will be able to make simple changes to your process that will delight your stakeholders and transform your hiring process. Bring a note pad and an open mind and prepare to be inspired!
Ever had the opportunity to hire someone great only to realize that your office is not even accessible to them? Jolie tried to hire candidates who where physically disabled, a brilliant hire who happened to have had a gender change, and autistic QA testers. But at each turn, she faced a different roadblock block that killed the hire. We will relive these scenes this time with experts from each community who will share what to do in order to open our offices and enable meritocracy.
Who’s in the best position to know if they can do the job? The job seeker. Here’s a radical idea: What if you flipped the model and let candidates self-qualify in to a job? This approach is taken by the Open Hiring Model with €130m in backing from The Start Foundation. There is a world of knowledge to be learned and financial backing to be gained by this radical approach to hiring.
They ran global TA and HR orgs, are entrepreneurs, and may have crystal balls that read into the future. Hung Lee will kick off a debate of heavyweights on the gig economy, the automation of recruiting, and on workforce planning. This Oxford Union debate style leaves no room for middle ground, because debaters have to pick a side, even if it doesn’t represent the entirety of their opinion, and fight for it.
Intelligence Group Pop Quiz: Test Your TA Intelligence
Had I known then what I know now, I’d have done things differently””, said almost everyone at some point in their lives. This TA quiz compiles top 10 questions that bring the eye popping insights from the Intelligence Group. From managing candidate experience based on country and culture to SMART and fully automating jobs, this entertaining session will inspire and test your knowledge.
Cubiks – Future of talent assessments in 2020 and beyond
By joining this session, find out about the 3 pillars of future talent assessment: future of work, the user experience and the candidate experience. With the expertise and insights from one of our experts, you will get a clearer view of what to expect in 2020 and beyond.
Codility – Tech hiring in 2020: 4 months left to prepare
Join an interactive workshop with Codility where we will dig into the key changes coming to tech hiring in 2020, and help you prioritize what you need to do in the next 90 days to help you hit your technical hiring goals for next year.
Few TA organizations are savvy enough to source diverse talent. When we surveyed SmartRecruiters’ customers, improving diversity sourcing ranked was the no. 1 ask. In this session moderated by Joanne Lockwood, two world class sourcers, Johnny Campbell and Marcel van der Meer will live demo how to source diverse C-level execs and diverse tech talent. Beyond learning about new channels and avenues, our sourcing ninjas will share key steps to take your diversity sourcing to the next level.
Branding is all about telling real stories in a way that connects with the audience. Bill Boorman has been entertaining folks in pubs around the UK for the last 12 months. Known by the locals as the Recruitment Racconteur, he will share the lessons he learned in storytelling and live presentation.
Intelligence Group Pop Quiz: Test Your TA Intelligence
Had I known then what I know now, I’d have done things differently””, said almost everyone at some point in their lives. This TA quiz compiles top 10 questions that bring the eye popping insights from the Intelligence Group. From managing candidate experience based on country and culture to SMART and fully automating jobs, this entertaining session will inspire and test your knowledge.
Cubiks – Future of talent assessments in 2020 and beyond
By joining this session, find out about the 3 pillars of future talent assessment: future of work, the user experience and the candidate experience. With the expertise and insights from one of our experts, you will get a clearer view of what to expect in 2020 and beyond.
Codility – Tech hiring in 2020: 4 months left to prepare
Join an interactive workshop with Codility where we will dig into the key changes coming to tech hiring in 2020, and help you prioritize what you need to do in the next 90 days to help you hit your technical hiring goals for next year.
How do you balance employment flexibility with stability? Why do companies still have a different hiring teams that are responsible for full-time vs contract hires? What will your hiring mix look like in 10 years? Get these questions right and you’ll see your stock soar. Get them wrong, and you’ll spend your time playing catch up. This session will bring much needed perspective from a company that transformed itself inside out and figured out this hiring mix.
Roundtable discussions on recruiting strategies, sourcing strategies, in-house executive search, and the power of video.
Some stores feel welcoming when you walk into them, others make you feel eerie and uncomfortable. It’s the exact same for candidates when they encounter your brand and your employees. This participatory session will surface the keys to success learned from major global enterprises to make your candidate exprience more welcoming. You will walk away with insights for adjustments that can have a huge impact on your candidate pipeline and attitude towards your organization.
If you want to boost your company culture, productivity, and seriously impact lives and your society, this session is for you. Welcome to a practical guide on how to hire refugees. Enjoy success stories that show the inspirational impact it has on your company. This unique combination of speakers created programs at multinationals, work in the government, and have collectively hired hundreds of refugees in high skilled jobs.
20% of our population has a disability, and this group is only growing. Whether it’s an accident, illness, or old age, sooner or later, everyone will have to deal with it. So lets be pro-active. Growing up in an orphanage in Jakarta and transitioning from hearing to becoming deaf, Eva learned to navigate our ‘normal’ world while operating from one with silent walls. This session will share Eva’s experience in analyzing, strategizing, implementing, and monitoring accessibility programs so you can make your organization more inclusive to those who’ve worked 10x harder to get there.
Roundtable discussions on Re-entry of Parents Back to Work, Empowering Effective Trans Allies, and Building an Inclusive Company Culture.
Hiring Success is a methodology that elevates recruiting from a reactive cost center to a function that continuously improves quality of hire, speed of hire, and forecasting accuracy. Deploy it correctly, and you’ll not only improve the culture of your organization but also gain a strategic seat with the board. This session breaks down this methodology into its component pieces so it can become applicable to any organization.
How do startups do it?! Welcome to the world of cool and quirky benefits that instantly make your company more attractive. To many, it’s the secret of smiles, hires, and retention. This is an interactive workshop where we’ll gain the collective wisdom of 60 peers (seat capacity) on the most effective wows that they’ve ever seen.
One of the best kept secrets in recruiting is the extra-ordinary output of neurodiverse people. Many of us are neuro-diverse but we just don’t know it. Agony Autie, a world class activist for neurodiversity rocked the stage at Hiring Success Americas and is back to expose truths about how making our offices accessible for autistic people will hugely benefit everybody at your company and transform the world economy.
Previously known as an ATS, design thinking has taken recruiting technology into its golden age. This is a product driven session that offers a clear path into how human centered design in technology makes achieving Hiring Success actual possibility.
What happens when you put a flight controller in the Dutch Navy in charge of a complex hiring process? One that led to 400 quality hires, on time, and under budget witha grand total of 0 recruiters. A complete outsider to recruiting, Arjan modeled his hiring process after supply chain principles to bring a superbly fresh perspective to recruiting that everyone can learn from.
No textbook can prepare you for explosive hypergrowth, and only those who lived it can share stories of their battle scars. A key to success in this chaotic phase is setting up your leaders for success correctly. But how do you do that? Anna and Noor will take us through those challenges to make hypergrowth an exciting, “fun”, and successful journey!
Why should someone work for you? Finding your true Employer Value Proposition may feel a complex and difficult operation, but the truth is, you’re fragile without it. In this participatory workshop, you will not just learn an effective method on how to build an EVP, you will actually create one with everyone else in the room.
In this out of the box session, attendees, global TA and HR execs, will share epic moments of failure in their careers. It’s through a show of vulnerability that we’ll gain lessons learned, and discover the what are common pitfalls we can avoid and the common drivers for success.
What does an aikido master, who also happens to be the first person ordained meditation master of african-american descent, and is now an advisor to Fortune 50 CEOs have to teach leadership? Find out in this participatory session that will offer an opportunity to strengthen your and your leaders’ skills by applying inclusive leadership.
Where some companies see barriers, great companies see opportunity. In this participatory session, you will learn the basics of workplace accessibility, and meet the challenge of (literally) building your own corporate accessibility strategy.
Every case for change starts with board level support. This participatory session is for those who want to secure the investment and deliver TA transformation. Mo will share his own story and extract the audience’s best insights to give us tools to successfully transform TA.
The difference between good and great comes down to a team’s attention to detail. It’s the small but attentive programs that allow a person be the leader they can be and meet their potential. And how reward it is, when that’s this happens! This workshop will offer various work environments that allow for leadership styles to flourish. Expect to walk away with new ideas you will want to implement right away.
Marketing is a big part of recruiting. It allows the tide of candidate applications to turn in your favor, and it results in a higher offer acceptance rate. But most recruiters are not skilled marketers. This session presented by Maarten Bokhoven, an award winning marketer, will teach how to build brand propositions, embed them in campaigns, produce quality content, marketing communications, and drive good public relations.
VONQ – How data will help you to target the best!
Let’s face it — in today’s ever-changing recruitment media landscape it’s hard to keep up with all that’s new. To hire the best, targetting active and passive candidates is key. Posting your job on the right channels can be a bit of a guess-game, costly, and very time-consuming. No need, with data your recruitment efforts from source to hire can be easily measured. Jan Karel Sindorff will tell you more on Smart Recruiting.
Xref – The Secret Ingredient to Recruitment Success: BACON
What makes a great question? BACON, of course. Join this fun and interactive session to discover why your hiring success is dependent on the questions you ask…and how BACON will help you get them right every time.
CleverConnect – Employer Branding 4.0: from simple awareness to a game-changer
Employer branding is an important lever to attract talent on a very competitive workforce market. But to lock them in throughout your entire recruitment funnel, their interactions with your Brand will make the difference. How would you tackle this challenge if you had all you need to do it?
If you feel that your company’s internal mobility strategy can stand to improve, then you’re not alone, and this session may be for you. This one of a kind participatory session will collect the best internal mobility strategies from everyone the room and deep dive into the most effective strategies so you can jump start your practice of tapping into your no. 1 source of talent.
Roundtable discussions on topics including Accessibility for the Blind, A Second Chance for Returning Citizens, Overcoming Ageism in Hiring, Including the Trans Community, Accessibility for the Deaf, and Bringing Single Moms with Children Back to Work.
VONQ – How data will help you to target the best!
Let’s face it — in today’s ever-changing recruitment media landscape it’s hard to keep up with all that’s new. To hire the best, targetting active and passive candidates is key. Posting your job on the right channels can be a bit of a guess-game, costly, and very time-consuming. No need, with data your recruitment efforts from source to hire can be easily measured. Jan Karel Sindorff will tell you more on Smart Recruiting.
Xref – The Secret Ingredient to Recruitment Success: BACON
What makes a great question? BACON, of course. Join this fun and interactive session to discover why your hiring success is dependent on the questions you ask…and how BACON will help you get them right every time.
CleverConnect – Employer Branding 4.0: from simple awareness to a game-changer
Employer branding is an important lever to attract talent on a very competitive workforce market. But to lock them in throughout your entire recruitment funnel, their interactions with your Brand will make the difference. How would you tackle this challenge if you had all you need to do it?
20 hackers participated to showcase innovation in recruiting tech, and three reached the final stage. But there can only be one winner to take home the Gold. In this final round interview, the top three builds will demo to a grueling panel of media moguls, influencers, and investors.
Self-imposed limitations are created when our choices and actions are dictated by automatic thoughts and unquestioning beliefs. Understand these limitations and find freedom from this prison of the mind. This session will take you through an extra-ordinarily inspiring journey of grit.
This is as immersive as it gets: 300 simultaneous 1:1 informational interviews between attendees and job seekers from overlooked communities of the deaf, blind, gay and trans, autistic and neurodiverse, physically disabled, elderly, refugees, returning from incarceration, and ex-prostitution that’s here to create lasting friendships and bridges of inclusion between communities that have so much to gain from one another.
