Agenda
Pre-Conference Workshops
May 5, 2016
8:00 AM
Registration for Workshop Attendees
Note
**Must register separately for pre-conference interactive workshops.
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Workshop A:Develop an Employer Brand Strategy (Read More) Despite recognizing the power of employer branding, many companies still don’t take a strategic approach to employer brand. Take the steps to plan, implement and measure a real brand strategy.
| 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Workshop C: Part IData Analytics for Recruiting and Employment Branding (Read More) Join Andrew Gadomski of Aspen Advisors as he conducts back to back workshops on how to analyze HR, recruiting, and engagement data to track and improve your employment brand and your recruiting teams.
PART I:
The first part will cover tracking outbound messaging and activity, and how to leverage that data to budget your outbound strategy, track its effectiveness and understand how engagement and satisfaction data can be used in your outbound messaging to increase your employment brand.
Attendees are encouraged to send in their current KPIs and metric tracking practice prior, as well as their 2016 / 2017 plans for improvement, as new KPIs and data analysis concepts will be introduced and created for each attendee in roundtable exercises.
The workshop is designed for senior level recruiting leaders who manage employment branding or recruiting teams or key management or business intelligence personnel who work with such leaders to present data regularly to business leaders.
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10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Morning Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Workshop B:Socializing Your Brand (Read More) Social media has given the talent pool greater insight into companies and access to opinions from current and past employees. This is giving employees in the marketplace more options and visibility of their potential workplace and, in the long-term, more control in the recruitment process. On the other hand, this also opens up organizations to both stinging criticism and praise, with either option having a massive impact on both its corporate and employer brand. Join us for this workshop and learn:
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Workshop C: Part IIData Analytics for Recruiting and Employment Branding (Read More) Part II
The second part will focus on how to hone in on tracking inbound prospects and applicants more accurately, understand costing of applicants and interviewees, and hires clearly, and link branding and sourcing efforts to business impact.
Attendees are encouraged to send in their current KPIs and metric tracking practice prior, as well as their 2016 / 2017 plans for improvement, as new KPIs and data analysis concepts will be introduced and created for each attendee in roundtable exercises.
The workshop is designed for senior level recruiting leaders who manage employment branding or recruiting teams or key management or business intelligence personnel who work with such leaders to present data regularly to business leaders.
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Luncheon for Workshop Attendees
Day One: General Summit
May 5, 2016
12:30 PM
Registration for General Summit Attendees
1:00 PM
Welcome & Introductory Remarks by #EBrandCon Emcee
1:15 PM
Keynote: State of Employer Branding (Read More)
Employer Branding is important to everyone, everywhere - whether you have 100 employees or 100,000 - it matters. Learn why companies are increasing their employer branding investment and how talent acquisition is leading the branding efforts.
2:00 PM
Recruiter Brand Matters! Empowering Recruiters to be Your Brand Ambassadors (Read More)
Your recruiters represent not only your employment opportunities, but your Employer Brand. With over 76% of candidates reporting wanting to know more about a company before they decide to apply, how are you preparing your recruiters to deliver your message? What many recruiters don’t realize is that they are also sales people, and what they sell are your employer brand and a career at your organization.
Join industry recruiting veteran Mira Greenland, now VP of Sales at CareerArc, as she reveals how to empower your recruiters to communicate a consistent and powerful employer brand message to expand your social recruiting efforts and win you more qualified, culture-fit talent.
- Learn how to build a recruiter enablement program that works, lasts, and builds authentic employer brand.
- Empower your recruiters to polish, create, and manage their professional brand through social media and intentional candidate experience.
- Teach your Recruiters how to “pitch” your employment brand
2:45 PM
Networking Break
3:00 PM
Panel Discussion with Gerry Crispin: Candidate Experience & Your Employer Brand (Read More)
More than one third of your candidates who have had a negative experience will publicly share it, 40% of them will go out of their way to dissuade others from applying to your company and a quarter will never, ever apply to your firm again. Join Gerry Crispin, Principal & Co-Founder of CareerXroads as he discusses the realities of listening to candidates companies hire AND those they don’t, setting expectations, delivering on those expectations, and holding recruiters accountable for the satisfaction of all the stakeholders.
3:55 PM
Break
4:00 PM
How to Efficiently Leverage Social Media Ads to Boost Your Employer Brand (and on a Budget!)
4:45 PM
Love Your Employer Brand from the Inside Out: Case Study of eHarmony
5:30 PM
Networking Cocktail Reception - Cinco de Mayo celebration!
Day Two: General Summit
May 6, 2016
8:15 AM
Continental Breakfast & Day Two Registration
8:40 AM
Welcome Remarks
8:45 AM
Keynote: Best Practices in Employer Branding (Read More)
Most agree employer branding is critical to hiring success. How to achieve a positive brand reputation is the struggle. Join us for this session to identify what works and what doesn’t in the war for talent.
9:30 AM
Building Employer Brand Awareness (Read More)
During this session, Kathryn Minshew, Co-Founder & CEO of The Muse, explores best practices for building employer brand awareness using social, mobile, video and other online channels. Drawing on her experience launching The Muse and building its massive organic following, which includes more than 50 million users to date, over 1 million email subscribers and over 500 company partners, Minshew will share different ways organizations can understand their candidates, analyze their existing reach and develop a successful employer brand strategy.
Session Takeaways:
- Utilize all of the branding tools at your disposal. From your social media accounts to your media presence to your brand partnerships, your employer brand spans far beyond your careers page.
- Understand what candidates need to learn, and how to create and distribute content that is more likely to attract social shares
- Leverage your existing employees in sharing your company’s story. Communicating the views of senior management is vital to expressing your organization’s message, but embedding current employers in your content adds authenticity to your message.
10:15 AM
Networking Break
10:45 AM
How to Build a Recruitment Branding Team (Read More)
Join us for this case study session highlighting how Oracle built a recruitment branding team. Celinda Appleby, Head of Global Recruitment Branding at Oracle will share lessons learned along the way!
11:30 AM
Case Study: Horizon Media - Developing an Employment Branding Campaign Using Video, Instagram, & Snapchat (Read More)
Join us to discuss what employers should learn and unlearn while using video as well as other visual platforms including Instagram and Snapchat to promote their Employer Brand.
12:15 PM
NETWORKING LUNCH
1:00 PM
Tips for Creating Great Employer Brand Content (Read More)
Content should be consistent with your employer brand. Just as your employer brand has a set of brand guidelines to ensure that the look, feel and tone of the message remains clear and consistent, a content strategy extends those guidelines into the videos, website copy, social media posts and blog posts that are produced. Join us for this engaging session to learn tips for creating engaging branding content.
1:45 PM
Afternoon Break & Refreshments
2:00 PM
Employer Branding 3 Ways: Small, Huge & Staffing (Read More)
Building an employer brand has become a large conversation as the market becomes more and more candidate-driven. Companies feel the pressure more now than ever to take control of the conversation and their reputation to job seekers. By introducing you to 3 very different companies - one small, one large and one staffing firm - Maren Hogan will take you through the steps to complete your own employer brand strategy, complete with a total strategic document with tactical direction.
Whether HR is one person, a small team or a large department, Hogan will use her experience with 3 previous clients to provide methods that account for every detail. She will walk you through her team’s approach to researching each client, strategizing their approach to their target market and explain the formula used to build a thoughtful employee value proposition. Through each of these case studies and their findings, she will challenge you to consider your own organization’s approach.
This session will leave you with useful tools and communication strategies that have been tested by various companies of all sizes and industries. From start to finish, you will get all the information and confidence you need to start your company’s own employer branding journey.
2:45 PM
Employer Branding Roadmap: Develop & Implement a Content Marketing Workflow (Read More)
Level up your brand on social networks with this content marketing workflow. Join us for this practical session on how to leverage content marketing to increase brand awareness and strengthen reputation. Take this roadmap of steps with suggested tools for automation back to the office and get to work!
3:30 PM
Closing Keynote Panel: Insider’s Guide to Building an Employer Brand (Read More)
Join us for a powerhouse panel discussion on building an employer brand - hear all about the up's and the down's from your peers.
4:25
Summit Concludes