Online Recruitment 2013: The Year Ahead Conference – pre event thoughts

As I mentioned in a previous post the Enhance Media “year ahead” conference takes place on 31st January. That’s just one week away and so I’ve been taking a look at the agenda (which includes two new speakers – Mike Taylor and Kirstie Kelly) to see what I most want to catch.

The content includes:

* Alex Merrylees from Virgin Atlantic talking about Brand, People & Social Media
* Mervyn Dinnen from Jobsite talking about Trends in Online Recruitment
* Ben Clark from Nestlé talking about the Nestlé Employer Brand Proposition: Development & Market Implementation Strategy
* Giles Guest from Enhance Media (our host) talking Online Recruitment in 2013
* Sandra Crawford of Telefonica talking about Harnessing the power of the employer brand to drive transformational change
* David Cohen from LinkedIn talking about why Talent Acquisition is nearly indistinguishable from Sales & Marketing
*Craig McGregor of ContentETC.com talking about Using words to attract
* Kirstie Kelly from LaunchPad Recruits talking about Video Technology – The Positive Impact for Recruitment
* Mike Taylor of Web Based Recruitment talking about Why Recruiters Need to go Mobile

It’s a nice mix of topics from the world of online recruitment. I know Mervyn and Mike already but have never heard Mervyn present; I do like a bit of stats so will be watching out for his presentation as well as Giles’s. I’m really hoping we’ll see Giles’s usual enthusiasm for statistics come through in this years presentation. Enhance collect and collate some fascinating information which is really useful for recruiters. Thinking more from the recruitment agency side than corporate I’m also keen to see what Craig McGregor and Kirstie Kelly have to share.

I know it’s stereotypically me to comment on the food – but Enhance were kind enough to send me the menu – I know you’ll be interested to hear I’m going for the Soy and honey marinated salmon fillets with Thai noodle salad. Followed by the chocolate and pear tartlet 🙂

I will be tweeting from the event using @louisetriance (& the hashtag #EMConf) and I will be writing a review of the conference for here after.

If you are attending the event as well please feel free to comment on which areas are of most interest to you. If you’ve not yet signed up you can still buy tickets and if you use the code EMCFZ01012 you can get a 10% discount.

PS couldn’t fit it in more subtly – but I know how valuable sponsors are … so wanted to mention that Jobsite are the main event sponsors!