Event Details

Start Times:

11:15 am Registration Begins

11:15 am Buffet Lunch Available

11:45 am Opening Business, Chapter Announcements

12:00 pm Presentation

1:00 pm Meeting Adjourned

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Pricing:

• Member - In Advance - $20
• Member - Late Registration (after 09/08/2017) - $25
• Guest - $30

Program:  Emerging Trends in Talent Acquisition: Panel Presentation

Panel:
Heather Bunker, Branch Manager, Manpower
Lori MacDonald, Director of Operations, Adecco
Peter Steimle, “The Jobs Guy”, Lawrence Journal World

Presentation Topics:
· 2017 Trends in Recruiting and Retention
· Grass roots recruiting in an on-line world – Dust off those old recruiting methods
· The candidate experience – Don’t run them off before you can even get them in the door
· The modern candidate
· Building a talent acquisition strategy
· Recruiter – Friend or Foe?
· 5 things about job announcements that turn everyone away! 
· Fishing for Employees: Where to Fish & With Which Bait?! (Tools & options to reach the best talent pools.)
· How I would advertise for employees if I didn't work for the Journal-World.
· How to improve our 55% successful hire rate: Job Postings, Selection, Offers, On-boarding.
· When Personality Talks---And Your Star Candidate Walks (How we lose great candidates when we let our gut make decision.)

Heather Bunker is the Branch Manager for Manpower and has been recruiting for 14 years. She is passionate about connecting people to work and enabling companies’ success. She works with clients both large and small; locally owned and internationally operated. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication Studies from the University of Kansas, acquired her SPHR certification in 2012, and her SHRM-SCP certification in 2015. She is also your VP of Finance for the chapter which is why you get to visit with her at check-in!

Presentation:
• The modern candidate
• Building a talent acquisition strategy
• Recruiter – Friend or Foe?

Lori MacDonald has been in the staffing industry with Adecco for over 23 years.  During her tenure, she has worked on sourced and hired for high-volume entry level projects, CPAs and Controllers, and everything in between.  When she started in the industry, everything was paper based from newspaper ads to paper applications. Over the years, she has embraced the way technology has changed recruiting. Lori earned her degree in Human Resource Management from Friends University and is currently studying for the SHRM-CP.
 
Presentation
 
• Grass roots recruiting in an on-line world – Dust off those old recruiting methods
• The candidate experience – Don’t run them off before you can even get them in the door
• 2017 Trends in Recruiting and Retention

Peter Steimle is "The Jobs Guy" at the Lawrence Journal-World, Shawnee Dispatch, Tonganoxie Mirror, Jobs.Lawrence.com, and other websites and social media sites, plus the quarterly Lawrence & Kansas City job fairs. He managed an employment agency for over 6 years and has recruited, interviewed, and hired over 1,000 people. He earned a KU MBA, SHRM-SCP, and is grateful to have been sincerely thanked for the way he fired an employee. He is most passionate about doing motivational speaking at jails, job fairs, and homeless shelters, because he has a special gift for assisting the perpetually unemployed.

Presentation:
• 5 things about job announcements that turn everyone away!
• Fishing for Employees: Where to Fish & With Which Bait?!
• How I would advertise for employees if I didn't work for the Journal-World.
• How to improve our 55% successful hire rate: Job Postings, Selection, Offers, On-boarding.
• When Personality Talks---And Your Star Candidate Walks

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We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, September 12, at 11:30 a.m. at Maceli’s!