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Podcasts
At the 2011 SelectMinds Client Conference, Peter Clayton, TotalPicture Radio, recorded a series of in-depth interviews with SelectMinds clients and thought leaders. These interviews provide a fascinating look at the ever changing world of talent acquisition and employment branding and can be found on totalpicture.com, and on iTunes along with complete transcripts. Here’s an overview of the podcast interviews, with links to their feature page to listen to the podcasts.
Challenges and Opportunities Building Alumni and Referral Networks in Highly Regulated Industries |
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Myrta Barell, Global Head of Alumni Networks, is responsible for the strategy, planning and day to day managing of Swiss Re's Global Alumni Network. As the largest Re-Insurer in the world, they were one of the first in the industry to establish such a network. They were also one of the first Swiss companies to create such a network for ex-employees. Listen as Myrta discusses the challenges and opportunities in building alumni and referral networks in a highly regulated industry. |
Global Recruiting Strategies for eBay, PayPal, StubHub... and More |
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Over the past 9 months, eBay, Inc has hired over 8,000 new employees. Listen as Shannon Bravenec, Sr. Manager, Global Talent Acquisition Programs and Operations at eBay Inc., gives us a behind-the-scenes look at their recruiting process. |
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Branding Strategy and TalentVine |
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Listen as Adam Eisenstein of The McGraw-Hill Companies, discusses the company's banding needs, strategies, and how McGraw-Hill is using TalentVine. In his role as Global Employment Marketing Brand Strategy Director, Adam has greatly broadened McGraw-Hill Companies brand exposure via social media, blogging, website redesign, video production, online and mobile advertising and strategic partnerships with vendors and job seeker communities. |
Managing the Greater IBM Connection, IBM's Social Media Community |
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Jacelyn Swenson has managed strategic programs and delivered high ROI in the corporate, non-profit and agency environments for 30 years. Currently, she is leading IBM's Alumni Relations worldwide and managing the Greater IBM Connection, IBM's social media community for past and present IBMers. Listen as Jacelyn shares best practices for running a world-class alumni network. |
The Critical Role Talent Communities Play in Recruiting Top Candidates |
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Listen as Chad Godhard, Director of Recruiting for Sage, shares insights into how his recruiting team utilizes talent communities. Sage, a world-leading provider of business management software and services to small and midsized businesses, has had Chad at the helm of its recruiting team for the last nine years developing and implementing strategic recruiting initiatives designed to improve customer satisfaction. |
Social Recruiting Evolution and Roadmap: The Inside Story |
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Listen to a special podcast from SelectMinds’ own Director of Product Marketing, Jim Milton as he examines the evolution of social recruiting and shares his insights into how companies have put their social networks to work for them in the HR sphere to tackle talent acquisition, employment branding, employee recognition and retention pains. |
– The following were recorded at the 2010 SelectMinds Client Conference. – |
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The Impacts of Social Technology on Recruiting |
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Keynote Speaker Jeremiah Owyang is a Partner focused on customer strategy at Altimeter Group and author of the popular blog “Web Strategy,” which focuses on how corporations connect with their customers using web technologies. Hailing from web enterprise management, Jeremiah is an industry analyst that consults and speaks on the topics of disrupted technologies for brand related customers strategies. |
Aon Hewitt: Navigating Social Strategy Within A Large Public Brand |
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Anthony Knierim, Global Talent Communities Specialist for AON Hewitt, along with Tim O’Connor, Global Staffing Leader at the recently merged Aon Hewitt, definitely raised some eyebrows during their presentation. For starters: Anthony built the Aon Hewitt career portal. Designed it, coded it, and remains the webmaster. Anthony has a background as a recruiter, and approaches his current role with a recruiter's mindset. |
Goodwin Procter: A Business Brief for Connecting With Your Employees, and Staying Connected to Your Alumni |
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Scott Westfahl is Director of Professional Development with Goodwin Procter in Washington, DC. After practicing law for ten years, Scott spent six years at McKinsey & Company’s Washington, DC office, leading local professional development initiatives and working firm-wide on developing electronic, competency-based performance evaluations and innovative assignment staffing database. In 2004, Scott joined Goodwin Procter, to build a professional development team and program. |
Re-Branding a $16B Global IT Services Company: Focused on Employees, Recruiting, and Referrals |
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Edda Van Winkle is Senior Manager Corporate Communications at CSC – a global technology company based in Falls Church, Virginia, with over 94,000 employees in more than 90 countries. “I am specifically focused on internal communications and alumni relations. But my goals internally are to really drive employee engagement, retention and satisfaction.” |
Swiss Re. An Alumni Network By the Numbers = Referrals and Rehires |
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Myrta Barell, Swiss Re Alumni Manager and Sam Fullmer, Vice President Human Resources Information Technology Division at Swiss Re. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, Swiss Re operates in more than 25 countries with a presence on all continents and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. |
theGrid: Staying Connected at Grant Thornton |
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Deborah Campdera is Director of National Alumni Relations at Grant Thornton, the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations. "Referrals are over 35% of our hires in terms of the source for us and I anticipate that will continue to grow.” |
How Social Networking Maximizes Referrals: Anne Berkowitch, CEO SelectMinds |
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“When we look at and when we talk to our clients about managing these networks, we often say it’s about collecting, connecting, engaging, and leveraging. As kind of buzzword-y as that sounds, what that means is to really drive value from a social network of any kind, you have to collect people – you have to actually create the network – and bring them together. You have to connect them, so you need a technology or some way to actually build the connections. You have to engage them because a mere connection doesn’t drive any value.” |
