Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Temporary, freelance and project-based workers are fast becoming a staple of the U.S. workplace and research suggests that around a third of all jobs are now temporary in nature.

While utilizing temporary labor can provide significant cost savings over taking on internal, direct hire workers, engaging temporary staff of all kinds can expose your company to significant risks....especially in the great state of California!

Our virtual conference - led by Emergent President and California native, Bill Inman - will alert you to key CA compliance issues to watch out for and will show you how your company can mitigate these risks effectively.

The war for talent is on, and the traditional way to hire—fighting over local applicants for permanent (read: high-investment) roles—is quickly becoming unsustainable. To win the war for talent, you need to be innovative in your hiring approaches. Technological advances have expanded the talent pool, enabling companies to find and hire the best talent—on demand and irrespective of geography, via the Internet. And as these new staffing models such as online work, crowdsourcing, and distributed teams emerge, it is becoming increasingly clear that, in the words of Benchmark Capital General Partner Kevin Harvey, “if you have only local talent, you’re hamstrung.” In this session, oDesk VP of International & Enterprise Matt Cooper will discuss the key elements of these rapidly growing staffing models—including market landscape, industry players, use cases, and the emerging regulatory and compliance issues—as well as how best to leverage them.

Has your management team been sold on the idea that an ATS recruits people? Are you struggling with how to demonstrate your recruiting team’s impact on quality of hire? Are your other metrics (such as time to fill and cost per hire) potentially competing against your quality initiatives?

If you answered yes to any of these or are about to embark on a business case for further recruiting investment join us for a session that will help to answer these questions and give you information and tools to immediately and positively impact your side of the story. We will also discuss key quality of hire metrics from companies such as Disney Cruise Lines, Harrah’s Entertainment and others.

Are you integrating social media into your talent acquisition campaign? Your competitors are! Join social media expert Jason Ginsburg, Director of Interactive Branding at Brandemix, as he show you how to participate in the latest trend: attracting top talent using social media.

From old favorites like Facebook and Twitter to newcomers like Google Plus and Pinterest, discover how brands are using essential social channels to stand out in the marketplace and engage job-seekers in innovative ways. You’ll even see a case study for internal social media, letting employees at distant locations collaborate and create. Don’t miss this chance to learn from cutting-edge employer brands.

This webinar will help you define quality of hire for your particular organization. As a strategic outlook, quality of hire involves much more than just the hiring process. People leave an organization for various reasons. By understanding how your talent management support structure impacts the employee throughout their tenure, will give you additional ideas on how to measure your quality of hire.

We will look at utilizing 360 degree feedback at intervals to enhance the measuring of QOH. In addition, this feedback can be used to measure the impact on your employees and organization with regards to your on-boarding, training, recruiting, performance management, career development, engagement and retention. We will look at how to utilize “victory fees” which pays out on internal recruiters based on retention and performance (Note that is and not or.)

Every person recruited by a recruiter or staffing professional has the potentials to create a disaster if the candidate is hired and proves to be dangerous, unqualified, unfit or dishonest. A recruiter can choose to simply roll the dice and leave their fate and professional reputation to chance, or a recruiter can learn the basics of due diligence in order to legally recruited safe, qualified and honest workers. In this webinar, learn how to legally select honest and qualified people for your clients or organization by using best practices to avoid bad hires and the professional and legal fallout just one bad hiring decision can create. In addition, understand recruiters legal liabilities if a background check are not done right. The session will also cover the legal limits on recruiters using social media as well as the increased focus on practices that do not discriminate.

As organizations seek to improve the effectiveness of contingent labor management programs, a holistic view of the workforce and strategies for optimizing spend is essential. A solution that combines information about full time and contingent workforces provides visibility into total talent and allows organizations to more effectively source talent, control costs and manage a blended workforce.

This webcast will provide insight into ways that organizations can achieve visibility into their talent pipeline. Key takeaways from the presentation will include:

• How an integrated system can manage permanent and contingent workforce
• How reporting can be used to change recruitment behavior across your entire workforce
• How technology can be used to drive change through the business

Maybe it’s easy to recruit if you’re Google or Apple. But what if your company isn’t a market leader, has little brand recognition, is in unattractive locations, and poorly funds its recruitment programs. Just because your company is a Plain Jane doesn’t mean your recruitment function needs to be. Randall Birkwood, a pioneer in innovative recruitment techniques, will give you real-world examples of how you can win in the talent market despite the odds being stacked against you. Learn how to build a better employment brand, how to attract candidates who want to work for you, and how to assess and hire. This session will spark creativeness and new ideas for your company’s hiring practices and talent acquisition strategies.

Internships have truly have become the “new interview” in the job search process for students and employers alike in today's challenging economic environment. In this presentation, Internships.com Vice President of Global Marketing Yair Riemer will present the latest industry statistics and market data from this growing HR sector and discuss the importance and benefits of starting and maintaining internship programs for businesses of all sizes.

The presentation will examine the growth of internship sectors such as virtual internships and social media internships, as well as outlining the benefits for organizations in starting an internship program and recruiting college and entry-level talent.

This session is an overview and introduction to Motivation-Based Interviewing. MBI is a 15 year-old interviewing method specifically designed for identifying and hiring high achievers. Traditional behavior-based interviewing focuses almost solely on an applicant's level of skill. This approach has a long history of producing hit-and-miss hiring results. Why? Because it takes more than just skill to succeed! MBI assesses all 3 of the components common to top performers that enable them to achieve above-average results, yet requires no extra interviewing time. The 3 components MBI assesses are - skill, attitude and passion! Please note, this session includes a powerful video that’s not available in an archived version.