June 2014 Recruitment Technology Showcase Event – Keynote Speaker announced

There are a LOT of recruitment events taking place in 2014.  So, we’ve gone that extra mile to ensure our six events (4 Directors Only events and 2 tech showcase events) are really good ones.  Our first Technology Showcase Event is on the 5th June and it’s a cracker! It has a very simple format which will allow you to see innovative and essential recruitment technologies over the course of a mere six hours.  We have a fabulous range of independent experts on hand (who we’ll  announce shortly) happy to offer advice, we have high-impact (low sales spiel!) elevator pitches so you can select the providers you want to chat with during the day and we have 20 minute speed-demo sessions.

The whole of the tech event is about learning but it’s not about sitting in a theatre listening to a speaker.  However, we do have an absolutely brilliant keynote for you in the form of Rob Symes.  

Rob Symes is an expert in the art of improving productivity through the application of data science.  But fear not – he won’t be sharing algorithms with you or boring data code. He’ll be taking you on a whistle stop tour of how the recruitment industry can benefit from quantifying all that data you create every day.  Do you know the perfect number (and quality) of calls needed to make a sale?  What is the right mix of communication methods to bring in business?  How does alcohol (and more broadly what we eat/drink and how we exercise) affect your wealth?  Rob knows the answer to this and MUCH more.  He holds the key to how the data can help the recruitment industry unlock personal and business potential.  Better still he is giving a unique presentation for us.

He’ll be with us all day offering access to answers to puzzles you didn’t think possible to solve!We also have a selection of 30 minute expert led workshop sessions to attend, a lively debate session, networking over beers and our end of day prize draw (we did this at the conference last year and the champagne and meal for two went down a treat!).You’ll leave the event with more information on and knowledge about recruitment technology than you can shake a stick at.  Even better – it’s a free event!

PS, If you want a bit more information on Rob here is his biography:

Rob Symes started his career at Manpower in Sept ’08 in the depths of the recession. By the end of 2009 he was Manpower’s top billing consultant out of 130 branches. In 2010 he started his own recruitment agency called Campbell Black, with an ambition to never cold call again, an unheard of concept for any type of salesman. Though he succeeded in this, he grew frustrated with the inability to quantify why one candidate succeeded in a job, over another. So he jumped on a plane to the US and made a documentary with the greatest minds in analytics, including Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman and the guys behind Moneyball. The documentary became the inception of a new company, The Outside View. The Outside View company works on quantifying elite performance and unleashing human potential.