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Workshop to offer recruiting strategies
New Practices in Recruitment, Selection and Retention, a conference and personalized work session, will be in Pittsburgh on Nov. 3-4, 1999. Sponsored by Select International, Sony, Olsten Staffing Services, and Fifth Third Bank, the session is limited to 50 participants and includes the following agenda:
• "The Top 6 Reasons People Want to Work for You." Kevin Klinvex, co-author of Hiring Great People, and Jill George, author of Leadership Trapeze, will lead a discussion on how to attract and keep star performers and identify people in your organization with the greatest potential.
• "Benchmark Sony’s New Recruiting and Hiring Model." Dan Lhota, staffing manager for Sony, will reveal Sony’s new recruiting and hiring process designed to attract thousands of technical, leadership, and production applicants. Michael Koff, Sony’s public affairs manager, will discuss the role of corporate culture in attracting and retaining top talent.
• "How to Hire the Next Michael Jordan." John Sullivan will teach how to impress top performers with the same recruiting techniques he has implemented at Cisco, Microsoft, Nike, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard. Learn which recruiting techniques are best for your organization.
• "The Blended Workforce." Gordon Bingham, senior vice president of Olsten Staffing Services, will talk about blending temporary and permanent employees into a harmonious and productive work force.
• "Speed Hiring." Matthew O’Connell, researcher, will demonstrate the most advanced candidate evaluation tools available.
• "Benchmark Fifth Third Bank’s New Recruiting and Hiring Model." Lee Ashton, vice president of human resources, will discuss how Fifth Third Bank attracts and hires thousands of front-line service and professional employees.
Registration is $1,495 per person. For more details, contact Janice Marra at (800) 834-8593 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST. Or, register on the Internet at www.selectintl.com.
Survive conference will focus on partnering skills
Survive, the world’s leading business continuity user group, will hold its 11th annual conference and exhibition and celebrate its 10th birthday on Nov. 16-17, 1999 at the National Motorcycle Museum, in Birmingham, England. Conference sessions will cover topics from PC LAN recovery, image protection and crisis management to e-continuity, instant telecom recovery, traumatic stress management and global business continuity (BC), and Y2K issues.
The conference is designed for newcomers to BC and disaster recovery planning, as well as experienced practitioners and is split into four streams — advanced, general, specialist, and products and services. Survive seeks to develop, encourage, and implement best practices in BC planning and helps ensure organizations are better prepared for any interruption to normal business activity. Keynote presentations will be given by Sue Stockdale, polar explorer and assistant director of Operation Raleigh, Chile; Bob Matthews, head of risk and continuity for BT Cellnet, United Kingdom; Pamela White, technology risk manager, Chase Manhattan, New York City; and Eric Goulding, corporate risk manager, British Aerospace, United Kingdom.
Partnering strategies with business continuity providers will be covered in sessions by Linklaters Alliance, SMH Associates, Robert Fleming & Co., and Insight Consulting. There will also be four pre-conference workshops on Nov. 15: Getting started In Business Continuity Planning, Consulting Skills for BC Managers, Crisis Command Center Management, and Crisis Media Management.
For more information, contact: John Hill, John Hill Associates, Telephone: 44 (0)181 643 7783. Fax: 44 (0)181 661 2322. E-mail: [email protected].
NationsHealth to host data management workshop
"Finding, Evaluating, and Accessing Sources of Health Data," a workshop for health care professionals interested in improving their data acquisition and management skills will be held this fall in Boston and San Francisco. Dates, locations, and targeted participants are:
• Oct. 11-12 — Radisson Hotel Boston (medical practice managers);
• Nov. 12-13 — The Donatello Hotel San Francisco (planners, researchers, consultants);
• Nov. 15-16 — The Donatello Hotel San Francisco (health care marketers).
Sponsored by NationsHealth Corp., the one-and-a-half day sessions will include recent developments in health data availability, best sources of government and commercial data, finding accurate data that is both current and affordable, and new developments in the availability of health data via the Internet.
Participants will receive specific training on improving their data acquisition and management skills, understanding the various ways that health data are generated, and methods of saving money on data acquisition.
Tuition for the workshops is $795 for registrations received at least 30 days prior to the start of each session and $895 for registrations received within 30 days prior to each workshop. Additional registrations from the same company will receive an added $100 discount. The registration fee includes all course materials, including a new health data book, along with a CD containing selected health data for every county and metropolitan area in the United States.
Contact (901) 276-3009 or visit www. nationshealthdata.com to register or obtain more information.
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