Trends in Strategic Workforce Planning: Positioning Your Organization for the Economic Turnaround

Presenters:

• Kevin Wheeler, Founder/President, Global Learning Resources, Inc.
• John Vlastelica, Managing Director, Recruiting Toolbox, Inc.
• Kristin Graham, VP Global Recruiting & Engagement, Expedia, Inc.
• Anna Brekka, Senior Director, Talent Management Services, Kennedy Information

Featuring: Kevin Wheeler, Founder/President, Global Learning Resources, Inc.; John Vlastelica, Managing Director, Recruiting Toolbox, Inc.; Kristin Graham, VP Global Recruiting & Engagement, Expedia, Inc.; Anna Brekka, Senior Director of Talent Management Services, Kennedy Information

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We are finally beginning to see signs of economic growth. September reports indicated that consumer sentiment had risen to its highest levels since the beginning of 2008 and that there was a bump in new home sales, too.

Though it’s not here yet, the recovery is coming, and with it will be a wave of demand for recruiting services. This is the time to ask yourself: Do I know which positions I’ll be hiring for? And, how many?… Do I have the right resources to handle it?

You don’t want to find out that your answer is “no”, too late. Identifying future talent needs helps to ensure that your recruiting strategy is in sync with your company’s overall business plan. Moreover, it allows you to put specific proactive actions into place, intentionally moving “ahead of the need” and developing fluid pipelines of interested, qualified talent.

Listen in as we explore the following critical issues:

• Implementing 2010 action plans
• Strategies for improving relationships with hiring managers
• Preparing your department to be ready to go when the flood gates open
• Effective techniques for building relationships with candidates now, and keeping your prospects warm

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Kevin Wheeler, Founder/President, Global Learning Resources, Inc.

He is the author of hundreds of articles on talent management, career development, recruiting, human capital, leadership and on corporate universities and learning strategies. He has contributed chapters to several books including, recently, a chapter on leadership and recruiting in On Staffing: Advice and Perspectives for HR Leaders published by Wiley in 2004. His latest book is entitled The Corporate University Workbook: Launching the 21st Century Learning Organization which is published by Pfeiffer, Inc.

Kevin works with organizations to establish learning strategies, corporate universities, succession plans, strategic staffing programs, and human capital architectures. Kevin has been a research affiliate at SRI International and a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, CA.

He has headed talent acquisition function globally and is the founder of two corporate universities. He has an extensive national and international consulting practice with such organizations as Yahoo, Eli Lilly, Corning, Inc., Starbucks Coffee Company, Edwards Lifesciences, and Federated Department Stores, and BP, as well as with organizations in China, New Zealand, Australia and El Salvador.

He has served as adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco and on the business faculty at San Francisco State University. Kevin spent 7 years in Thailand as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and has a Masters Degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development. Most recently he was the Senior Vice President for Staffing and Workforce Development at the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Previously, Kevin worked in Thailand as the Vice President of Human Resources for Alphatec Electronics, Inc. and spent 16 years at National Semiconductor Corporation in a variety of human resource roles, including founding and acting as the director of National Semiconductor University.

He sits on a number of boards, served as a member of the National Board of Directors for the American Society of Training and Development from 1995-1997, was an advisory board member for the College Board in the early 1990’s as they architected the new SAT I and II exams, and was a member of the ACT Advisory Board. He speaks at international conferences on a regular basis and hosts an exclusive, invitation-only forum called the Future of Talent (www.futureoftalent.org) for human capital practitioners that explore emerging technologies and practices for talent acquisition and development.

John Vlastelica, Managing Director, Recruiting Toolbox, Inc.

John Vlastelica draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, including seven years as a corporate recruiting leader and five years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was a Recruiting Director at Amazon.com and the engineering recruiting leader for two start-up divisions of McCaw/AT&T Wireless. Now, he focuses 100 percent on helping other companies improve their in-house recruiting capabilities.

Through Recruiting Toolbox and his work as a Principal with Riviera Advisors, he’s provided training and recruitment management consulting services to companies of all shapes and sizes, including leading organizations in high-tech, bio-tech, healthcare, financial services, and retail. John has shared his expertise with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat presenter at regional and national recruiting conferences (including ERE Expo, Kennedy, AIRS Symposiums, and SHRM’s Staffing Management conferences), through online webinars, and as an instructor for the Strategic Talent Acquisition Roundtable Leadership Academies.

He is also an author of several popular recruiting white papers and work published in two books on staffing best practices, and writes for his blog, Recruiting Toolbox. John was a four-term President of the Staffing Management Association of Seattle, which draws 250-300 people to its conferences. John has also served several terms on the board of Washington State’s largest SHRM chapter, and in 2006 received the Distinguished Member Award from the 7,000-plus member Northwest Human Resource Management Association. He graduated magna cum laude, and first in his class, with a degree in business from Western Washington University.

Kristin Graham, VP Global Recruiting & Engagement, Expedia, Inc.

Kristin heads up global recruiting and employee communication & engagement efforts for Expedia, Inc.’s companies, which have more than 70 points of sale in more than 40 countries. Her current role oversees talent acquisition across the companies different brands and regions as well as employee programs like employer branding, community involvement, engagement/retention programs — and most recently on social media efforts. She has an undergraduate degree from Lake Forest College, a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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