Graduate Recruitment and
Development Forum 2010

Summary

Graduate Recruitment and Development Forum 2010 will be the ideal opportunity for leading recruitment, HR and talent professionals to share best practice strategies for attracting and retaining the brightest graduate talent and keeping the employer brand alive. Combining leading case studies, updated insights into the demands of generation y graduates and a variety of networking opportunities, this conference will help you with every stage of your recruitment process through to on-boarding, mentoring and development of your graduate employees. The Graduate Recruitment and Development Forum 2010 will also examine how to develop your employer brand and keep a presence in the market during recruitment freezes.

Programme Highlights:

• Improve the return on your graduate proposition
• Blend graduate recruitment with business pressures
• Refine graduate opportunities in the current climate
• Deliver volume recruitment on a shoe string
• Examine innovations in screening processes
• Manage expectations and the psychological contract
• Ensure your brand is on campus
• Provide clear and structured approaches to development

Conference Chair:

• Tom Richmond, Skills Adviser, CIPD

Conference Speakers:

• James Darley, Director of Graduate Recruitment, Teach First
• Jessica Davies, Graduate Recruitment Resourcing and Process Leader, Accenture
• Ian Massey, Head of Professional Resourcing, EMEA, Citi
• David Burrows, Team Leader, Development Schemes Team, Tfl
• Tim Janes, Head of EMEA Resourcing, QinetiQ
• Ben Jackson, Head of Business Development, GradWeb
• Nicky Ivory-Chapman, Head of Resourcing, McDonalds
• Dr Anthony Hesketh, Associate Professor, Lancaster University Management School
• Jennifer Crane, Graduate Recruitment and Development Adviser, Lloyds of London
• Ed Hurst, Managing Consultant, Kenexa

Who Should Attend

• HR Directors and Managers
• Graduate Recruitment & Development Managers
• Graduate Programme Managers
• Talent Managers
• Employer Brand Managers
• Heads of Recruitment & Resourcing
• Heads of Training and Development

Tom Richmond, Skills Adviser, CIPD

• Examining the importance of graduate recruitment to future business
• Fulfilling future talent pipelines
• Proving the value of grads
• Improving the return on your graduate proposition

Dr Anthony Hesketh, Associate Professor, Lancaster University Management School

• Examining the challenges faced on campus in the current economic climate
• Implementing a “Customer focused” model case study that delivers real results
• Discussing the successes and failures
• Embracing the future developments

James Darley, Director of Graduate Recruitment, Teach First

• Sending out the right message
• Challenges in the current market place
• Building a Global brand

Nicky Ivory-Chapman, Head of Resourcing, McDonalds

• Enabling graduates to interrogate their own motivations for applying to your organisation
• Self-selection and the tools of the trade
• Motivation and the pride factor
• The practical and financial benefits to your organisation

Ben Jackson, Head of Business Development, GradWeb and Tim Janes, Head of EMEA Resourcing, QinetiQ

This is your chance to discuss and debate the key issues and seek solutions to your graduate recruitment concerns. Knowledge Share is a great opportunity to talk through challenging issues in a structured environment with your peers.

• Delivering world-class solutions encompassing screening, assessment centres, psychometric tools and exciting innovations in the field.
• Ensuring that graduates are not just bright, but right for future success
• Achieving a competitive advantage in the competitive graduate market place
• Improving organisational success and delivering tangible business results

Ed Hurst, Managing Consultant, Kenexa

• A Citi case study
• Mobilising your workforce
• Recruiting in diverse workplace

Ian Massey, Head of Professional Resourcing, EMEA, HR - Talent Resourcing & Development, Citi

• A new approach to selection
• High impact learning
• Delivering return on investment

Jessica Davies, Graduate Recruitment Sourcing and Process Leader, Accenture

• The need for fresh talent within Lloyd’s
• The challenges of promoting insurance to graduates
• The benefits of a generalist rotational programme
• Partnering with market firms for the benefit of the wider insurance industry

Jennifer Crane, Graduate Recruitment and Development, Lloyds of London

• Induction to the gateway to learning
• Learning needs discussions insuring best value and best targeted learning
• Communication technology’s place in driving learning
• Coaching, reflection, and personal intelligence skills to support transition from the scheme

David Burrows, Development Scheme Manager, Tfl

• Q&A session with speakers from the previous session
• End of conference debate, including a summary of the key points raised in the Knowledge Share Networking Session
• Closing comments by conference chair

James Darley has been working in Graduate Recruitment for nearly 11 years. He is responsible for the attraction and selection of around 700 top graduates who want to join the Teach First programme. He joined Teach First 5 years ago from Credit Suisse where he was the European Head of Graduate Recruitment.

Jessica Davies is Graduate Recruitment Sourcing and Process Lead for Accenture. With 7 years experience, including time in the legal and management consulting sectors she has covered all areas of graduate recruiting including campus, internships and process management. Accenture recruit 400-500 graduates each year with an additional 100 internship places. Jessica manages Accenture’s offshore relationship with Accenture HR Services ensuring candidate screening, interview scheduling and on-boarding is seamless.

Tom Richmond is the Policy Adviser on Skills at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). His interests cover a range of policy issues such as Higher Education, Further Education and employability skills in addition to government initiatives including Train To Gain and Apprenticeships. Prior to joining the CIPD, he spent three years as an A-level teacher and has also worked in Parliament and policy think-tanks.

Nicky Ivory-Chapman is the Reputation and Resourcing Manager for McDonald’s UK responsible for operations recruitment and employer branding. Nicky joined McDonald’s as a part-time employee in 1993, and spent 10 years in operations. In her current role Nicky manages the resourcing team, who develop and monitor the recruitment processes and careers website for 1200 restaurants across the UK.

Ian Massey is the current Head of Recruitment for Citi across EMEA. He is responsible for managing the Professional, Graduate and Temporary Resourcing functions across EMEA ensuring an effective recruitment strategy for the region consisting of over 40 countries and c40,000 people. Ian has been influential in the creation of a Centre of Excellence for Recruitment, while rolling out outsourced solutions in multiple countries (UK, Ireland, Poland and Hungary).

Jennifer Crane is responsible for all aspects of graduate resourcing and development at Lloyd’s. The Lloyd’s graduate programme was launched in September 2008 and Jennifer has been involved since the beginning. Prior to this, Jennifer has several years experience as an HR Generalist, both at Lloyd’s and elsewhere.

Ben Jackson has ten years’ recruitment experience, split between senior in-house recruitment management roles and managing major recruitment outsourcing programmes. He has been responsible for running the recruitment functions of businesses as diverse as Prudential, Ericsson, Motorola, Hays and Cable&Wireless. He firmly believes that the best employers are those that strive to give their entry-level talent not only a firm footing in their careers, but also in their lives in general.

David Burrows has worked on a range of organisation development and learning and development projects across London Underground and then Transport for London, He now leed’s the team that manages the organisation’s graduate and undergraduate schemes. Tfl has invested significantly in graduates and over the last four years numbers have increased threefold to nearly 200 across14 different disciplines, with undergraduate summer placements now established as part of our annual offering.

Ed Hurst serves as a Managing Consultant at Kenexa and has extensive experience as an assessment development practitioner, focusing on achieving tangible business results. Mr. Hurst plays a vital role in Kenexa’s operations function, managing a team of psychologists in delivering assessment and development solutions. Incorporating a broad range of techniques and approaches, he has implemented multi-rater feedback projects with a variety of clients, providing feedback and coaching at all levels of the organization. Mr. Hurst is also involved in developing additional solutions focused on linking organizational surveys and assessment projects.

Kenexa®
Kenexa® understands the rewards and challenges of recruiting and retaining top graduates. We recognise that your organisation competes with other companies for the best and brightest talent—the future leaders of your organization. We also know that you need to operate an efficient and cost-effective campaign that reduces required time, resources and costs. Kenexa can assist your graduate recruitment campaign in all areas. We understand the key graduate metrics of our clients, and our innovative solutions are tied to these key individual and organisational outcomes. We offer an end-to-end graduate solution in today’s dynamic economy that helps your organisation identify top tier talent in the candidate pool.

GradWeb
Graduate recruitment is our business. Set up in 2000, GradWeb is the UK’s leading graduate recruitment outsourcing and technology specialist. We manage campaigns and solutions for many of the largest graduate recruiters in the UK, the US, the Middle East and Europe, most of whom depend on our cutting-edge recruitment systems.

GTI Recruiting Solutions
Since 1999 GTI Recruiting Solutions has been supplying bespoke outsourced graduate recruitment solutions and applicant tracking systems for organisations around the world. If you want us to manage your full end-to-end graduate recruitment process, we’ve got the skills, the reach and the experience to do that. Easily. Or if you want us to look after key elements of the graduate recruitment process that complement your existing activities – such as marketing, screening and interviews – we can do that too. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re looking for one graduate or 200. Or whether you want those graduates to be from the UK, China or any other place in the world. We can do it. No one has graduate recruitment channels even remotely as good as ours. Being part of the world’s largest graduate media company, Group GTI, is a huge advantage. As a white label product our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is branded as an employer’s own system and provides companies with a best practice solution underpinned by a comprehensive suite of tracking and reporting tools. Scalable in terms of both cost and functionality, the ATS can be tailored to meet the requirements and demands of both the small and large scale recruiter; helping to reduce the time spent on administration and removing many of the frustrations associated with processing, organising and communicating with hundreds if not thousands of applicants.

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