I’ve been so very slow in writing about these events that took place at the end of February – all this business with the IOR has taken centre stage in my blog space!
So, a couple of weeks ago Bill Boorman (un)organised one of his infamous recruitment unconferences and we (with his permission) slotted a networking evening into the middle of it.
I only made it along to one of the unconference days, which I thoroughly enjoyed. However, during that time I mostly hopped from one track to another (they were all so interesting!) and as a result I don’t think I’m in a position to produce much of a write up. Luckily that’s fine as lots of people have written superb blog posts on the subject and rather helpfully Martin Couzins has collected these together on his blog.
We used the same venue as during the day for our evening event and I think it worked really well. Sadly My-Resourcer hid there sweetie pick-n-mix, but with support from our sponsors (RIDE, Antal Ventures and Cash Simply) we made up for it with a free drink on arrival. We had a few words from Tony Goodwin from Antal (who mentioned his book), speed networking superbly run by Mervyn Dinnen and then a lot of old fashioned “networking”; which in recruitment speak meant lively debate over beers.
The next UK Tru event is likely to be late June in Leeds and it looks like we’ll be providing the evening networking there too!
PS, I borrowed the above image from James Mayes
