The Sourcing Summit is coming to NZ for the first time. #SOSUNZ will highlight the important role of talent sourcing in NZ and will provide attendees with the opportunity to learn from international and national thought-leaders and organisations.

Irina Shamaeva, talent sourcing scientist and one of the most respected talent sourcing thought-leaders globally will keynote the event and conduct sourcing workshops. It is a rare chance for NZ sourcing community to meet and learn from one of the true pioneers of talent sourcing globally. Also, NZ sourcing experts from some of the most innovative companies including Deloitte, Fairfax, PWC, VENDHQ, Jobgram, Certus, ASB, Farrow Jamieson and PEL will speak at the event.  Read more...

IT18 CONFERENCE
Join us for the first IT Recruitment conference to be held in Sydney on Thursday 18 April. #IT18 will focus exclusively on talent management in the tech sector, with a special focus on the attraction, recruitment and retention of IT professionals in Australia.

Some of the most innovative technology companies, new start-ups, research houses and professional associations including Microsoft, Avanade, CISCO, OBS, Longhaus and ITCRA will speak at the event on subjects ranging from sourcing software engineers to working with agency recruiters.  Read more...

Recruitment drives HR Technology innovation
Recruiters. Love them, loathe them. Whatever your view, it is undeniable that recruitment has long been the driver for innovation in HR and Talent Management technology.

From the very moment the first English backpacker picked up a telephone to target a prospective new client, a candidate scratched out a CV on the first versions of WordPerfect, or a Personnel Manager checked the fax machine for incoming job applications, recruitment and technology have been inseparable bedfellows. An industry that is competitive by nature and by definition will always seek to innovate in order to stay ahead of the pack.  Read more...

Guest post by Jude-Martin Etuka, speaker at the Sourcing Summit
To those, who, as a matter of standard operating business practice, leverage diversity as fundamental to achieving key strategic objectives in the talent acquisition life-cycle – this topic might rightfully appear a contradiction in terms. ‘Diversity Sourcing’? “What is that?” one might ask. It was the same question I asked myself when requested to be part of a panel addressing the topic at the recently concluded 2012 Australasian Sourcing Summit.  Read more...

Irina Shamaeva, keynote speaker for #SOSU12, is conducting a free webinar. This is a great opportunity to sample some of Irina’s work and also get a taste of the sourcing issues she will address at the Sourcing Summit on 15-16 August (Sydney) and 21 August (Brisbane).

TIME: 10:00-10:45 AM
DATE: 7 August
STYLE: Webinar.
SUBJECT: PEOPLE SOURCING SCIENCE  Read more...

Sourcing Summit 2011 was a huge success. Thanks to our presenter we are making the presentations available for free.  Read more...

Irina Shamaeva, Sourcing Summit 2012 from Phillip Tusing on Vimeo.

RPO or Recruitment Process Outsourcing, a form of outsourcing where an employer transfers all or part of its recruitment functions to an external service provider, has been around for some time in Australia.

But very little data is available to gauge the size, prevalence, types and extent of  RPO adoption by companies in Australia. Anecdotal evidences seem to suggest that adoption is increasing, driven in large part by the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all RPO model. In fact the type of RPO models differ across industry sectors and locations, influenced greatly by size of organisation, culture, volume of jobs and the expertise of suppliers.  Read more...

Recruiters and talent solution providers are almost always facing a crossroad, largely because the behaviour of employers, the workforce and workplaces change rapidly. Add the influence of macro factors such as the state of the economy, unemployment, labour participation rate, skill shortages and advances in technology, and you have an industry perennially on the cusp of change.

So, what does the road ahead looks like for recruiters and those in the business of providing human capital services?  Read more...

Some of the speakers at #retec discussing new trends and developments in recruitment technology.

RECTEC (Recruitment Technology Evaluation Convention) 2011 from Phillip Tusing on Vimeo.

"If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you….. you have to let them make a lot of decisions. You have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay" – Steve Jobs

What’s your experience with recruitment technology and vendors?

We are conducting a study to better understand the adoption of recruitment technology in Australia & NZ. Spare five minutes of your time to tell us your experience. The results of the study will be made available to everyone. Take the survey and go into the draw to win two free tickets to RECTEC.

Does the HR/Recruitment industry need another event? I think so. RECTEC, scheduled for 22 Nov, brings a very different flavour. Here’s why:

Focus
RECTEC stands for Recruitment Technology Evaluation Convention and as the name implies the event will focus exclusively on technology and its application to recruitment.

Learning from innovators
We’ve assembled an impressive line-up of speakers – technology path-breakers, HRIS consultants, vendors, innovation experts, software entrepreneurs, RPO innovators, IT industry analysts, change agents and staffing professionals who have had a hand in embracing and using technology smartly.  Learn from early adopters.  Read more...

Anthony Sork is the Managing Director of Sork HC, a Management Consultancy and Executive Coaching practice. He is the creator of the Employment Attachment Inventory the world first, internationally patented business instrument used by leading organisations to reduce attrition and increase performance of new employees.  Read more...