Innovation in Recruitment Summit

Programme

09:00 – 09:30 Coffee and registration

09:30 – 09:45 Introduction and opening address by conference chair

Jim McCoy, Vice President, RPO Practice Leader, North America, Manpower Group

09:45– 10:15 Next generation quality of hire

• What is Quality of Hire and what are the levers to accelerate it?
• Where does culture fit in your recruiting efforts?
• How to leverage your culture to create an engaging employee value proposition
• Managing your culture and selecting for fit

Jacques Bossonney, Vice President Sales, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, EMEA, Kenexa, an IBM Company

10:15 – 10:45 innovation mean for the RPO industry

• Using a project model to supporting in-house teams
• Utilising RPO innovation in-house
• Increasing business impact and taking a more strategic approach to RPO
• Adapting to fit market trends and business needs

Greg Allen, Global Head of Resourcing, Lloyd’s Register

10:45 – 11:15 Proactive sourcing; creating the ultimate engagement

• Talent pooling and proactive sourcing
• Tools to develop relationships with potential candidates
• Underpinning future recruitment needs and creating a guaranteed supply of candidates
• Understanding your target market and how they behave

Tony Mancino, Senior Recruiter Talent Acquisition, Autodesk

11:15 – 11:30 Questions and discussion with speakers

11:30 – 12:00 Refreshments and networking

13:20 – 14:20 Lunch and networking

14:20 – 14:50 Innovation in social recruitment

• Utilising social media to drive attraction
• Developing your online presence and content through Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and blogs
• Linking social technology with in-house systems
• Measuring the KPI’s

Ashley Hever, European Talent Acquisition Manager, Enterprise Rent-A-Car

14:50 – 15:20 Improving delivery and customer satisfaction through a partnership approach

• Connecting customer & Supplier
• Continuous improvement culture
• The power of MI
• Taking a Partnership approach

Andrew Wilson, Head of Resourcing & Workforce Planning, Visa Europe

15:20 – 15:40 Questions and discussion with speakers

15:40 – 16:00 Refreshments and networking

16:00 – 17:30 Knowledge share networking wine and workshop

In round tables discuss your key recruitment challenges, half way through the session you will change tables so you can discuss experiences with a wider group of people.

17:30 Chairman’s closing remarks and close of conference

Speakers

Confirmed Speakers:

Gareth Evans, Talent Acquisition Manager, Allied Bakeries

Gareth is the Talent Acquisition Manager for Allied Milling and Baking and has been in his current role since 2011. He has been in the wider Associated British Foods group since 2003, and has undertaken a range of HR generalist roles in both Allied and Silver Spoon, most laterly as the Head of HR. He has also spent some time out of HR, as a Site Manager for the Silver Spoon Sugar Packaging Plant.

Nigel Toon, HR and Communications Director, Allied Milling and Baking

Nigel is the HR and Communications Director for Allied Milling and Baking and has been with the company since 2004. His career began at Walkers Crisps, as Technical Training Manager. After PepsiCo acquired the business, he moved to senior operational HR roles including Regional HR Manager Manufacturing and Divisional Employee and Labour Relations Director, covering Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Tony Mancino, Senior Recruiter Talent Acquisition, Autodesk

Tony is a Senior Lead Recruiter for Autodesk and is responsible for the direct sourcing strategy across the business throughout EMEA. Since 1997, Tony’s experience reaches from agency to RPO’s and has a wealth of knowledge within in-house recruitment methodologies. His extensive creative sourcing strategy has financially helped companies streamline their recruitment function decreasing cost per hire across the organization. Experienced in using online tools to leverage candidates pipeline and brand awareness. Tony is very passionate on driving new innovating ideas within a sourcing model, simplifying strategic corporate recruitment statements into results. Prior to Autodesk Tony worked for Solutions Driven where he managed onsite RPO and then setting up the executive search office in the south UK. He is currently studying Business Studies with the Open University.

Matthew Yates, Lead Resourcing Business Partner, Barclays Bank Plc

Matt is currently the Lead Resourcing Business Partner for Barclays UK Retail and Business bank, having previously led the resourcing teams for Barclays Corporate Bank and before that lastminute.com. Matt has been involved in transformation programmes for resourcing across the Finance and Technology industries with a focus on customer centric organisations, helping drive organisational performance through engaging and efficient talent acquisition. Matt holds a Masters In International Human resource Management and a BSc in Business Administration from Cardiff University

Susan Firbank, UKRBB Resourcing, Barclays Bank Plc

Susan is the Head of Resourcing for Barclays UK Retail and Business Bank having joined in 2008 from Homeserve PLC where she was Head of Resourcing from 2005 – 2008. Susan has led the Resourcing Transformation agenda for Barclays across the end-to-end candidate lifecycle driving improved resourcing delivery, new starter performance and retention and a superior candidate and hiring manager experience. Susan also holds an MBA from Warwick Universtity

Ashley Hever, European Talent Acquisition Manager, Enterprise Rent-A-Car

After graduating with a BA Hons degree in Criminology at The University of Hull, Ashley joined Enterprise Rent-A-Car, one of the world’s largest and most successfully owned companies with annual sales of over 14 billion worldwide focusing on the non- traditional replacement vehicle management. Within a management development programme he developed through the organisation to Area manager. In 2008 he was appointed European Talent Acquisition Manager responsible for all aspects of activity from recruitment strategy through to on-boarding and retention across Europe

Jacques Bossonney, Vice President Sales, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, EMEA, Kenexa, an IBM Company

Jacques Bossonney is the Vice President of Sales for Recruitment Process Outsourcing across EMEA at Kenexa, an IBM Company. Before joining Kenexa, Mr. Bossonney was Managing Director of RPO for Korn/Ferry Futurestep. Prior to his tenure with Futurestep, he was responsible for managing ADP’s multinational consulting and sales across Europe. Mr. Bossonney has been involved in the design and negotiation of several global and regional outsourcing agreements with clients in industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecommunications and Oil and Gas.

Mr. Bossonney has 25 years of industry and professional experience, focused in the leadership of consulting and management teams with a solid experience in recruiting and leading consulting and sales professionals. Eighteen years of his career were spent in New York and Detroit, working for IBM, Digital Equipment, Amdahl, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Compuware. Mr. Bossonney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Université of Lyon and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jim McCoy, Vice President, RPO Practice Leader, North America, Manpower Group

Jim McCoy is the RPO Practice Leader for North America. In this role, he leads a team of more than 500 recruiting professionals who provide RPO services for 40 clients in the US and Canada. Additionally, Jim is responsible for Global RPO business development. He established ManpowerGroup’s Global RPO Center of Excellence, and has supported the expansion of RPO services into 46 countries.

Jim came to Manpower from Fidelity Investments, where he built and managed a talent management consulting group for Fidelity’s Veritude division. In this role, Jim led his division as they assisted clients in the development and implementation of recruiting and retention strategies, business process redesign and change management.

Jim has been a featured speaker at a number of HR industry forums, including the HR Planning Society, the Thought Leadership Institute and the Human Capital Institute. He has published and been quoted extensively in the recruiting and human capital press, and has developed specific expertise in the integration of candidate assessment into the recruiting process.

Prior to his work in the human capital industry, Jim spent more than 10 years in financial services. His past roles included Marketing Manager for Chase Manhattan Bank’s Latin American payments business, and Product Manager for BankBoston’s correspondent banking business. He was an active member of the Association for Financial Professionals, where he was an editor for both The Essentials of Cash Management, 7th ed., and The Essentials of Treasury Management.

Chris Taylor, Talent Acquisition Manager, SABMiller Procurement GmbH

Chris Taylor is the Global Talent Acquisition Manager for SABMiller Procurement the central strategic sourcing arm of SABMiller PLC. Graduating from Hull University in 1993, Chris joined Hays Recruitment and three years later Martin Ward Anderson as a recruitment consultant and later manager for Accountancy and Finance professionals. In 2000 he joined a new start up, Imprint Search and Selection, formed to provide retained search services to blue chip enterprises seeking middle to senior management (the so called marzipan layer). After eight years leading a practice area Chris moved in 2009 to SABMiller in Switzerland to recruit global procurement professionals for the newly created Strategic Sourcing business group. During his three years with SABMiller, Chris has hired over 200 people for a variety of functions, including 15 months looking after the Global Headquarters in Woking. Currently Chris is responsible for finding the talent to create and operate regional procurement centres in Europe, Latin America and South Africa and Switzerland.

Andrew Wilson, Head of Resourcing & Workforce Planning, Visa Europe

Andrew Wilson is Head of Resourcing & Workforce Planning for Visa Europe. Visa Europe is a not-for-profit Member’s Association owned by Europe’s banks with the goal of becoming the world’s most trusted currency. Having joined Visa Europe in late 2011 he has defined the resourcing strategy and re-tendered all the resourcing suppliers, the largest being the combined MSP/RPO provider for Europe. His particular passion is “connecting the dots” between sometimes disparate people processes that impact the organisation’s ability to deliver its business plans.

Prior to his time at Visa Europe Andrew held Talent Management roles in Jaguar Land Rover, GE Aviation and Smiths Aerospace, all of which included resourcing either in Europe and/or the USA. In his early career he held other HR roles at Honda and National Grid.

Andrew is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and has an MA (Hons) in Economics.

Sponsors

Kenexa®, an IBM Company

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We provide deep insight and experience in employee engagement, talent management and leadership development mixed with the world’s best technology and social platforms, giving us the unique ability to build a Smarter Workforce.

ResourceBank

HR and Recruitment Partnerships

ResourceBank recruits, retains and manages talent on behalf of leading organisations in the UK and Europe. We offer a range of services including recruitment outsourcing, executive search, Shared HR management and workforce assessment.

We are a highly customer-focused business that prides itself on service delivery, cost effectiveness and customer satisfaction. As a result, we have built long-term relationships with our clients and the majority of our new business is sourced from repeat clients and from recommendation.

Every client challenge is treated as a new unique project and our services are tailored to meet the specific needs of each and every customer.

Current clients include Pitney Bowes, Magnet Group, Tesco, World Duty Free Group, Aliaxis, Vector Aerospace and Muller and we work across all sectors, industries and locations throughout Europe.
For a partner who will work with you to develop and flexible and tailored service for your talent attraction and management needs, contact ResourceBank today.
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