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Unemployment is at a record low, which is great for the economy, but tough on recruiters, now that hiring has become a seller’s market. But new AI-powered solutions for virtually every part of your recruitment funnel can give you the advantage you need in a tight market, and even improve your bottom line: Companies leveraging AI in their hiring initiatives are seeing an increase of 18 percent in their revenue and a 30 percent boost in profit.

And with over 62 percent of companies expected to be using AI to find and hire the best talent by the end of this year, getting on board the AI train has become an imperative — if you want to stay competitive.

Join execs from Adecco, LinkedIn, and Trivago to learn how how AI is revolutionizing their ability to resource high-quality talent, and how your company can do the same, in this VB Live event!

Register here for free.

In this webinar you'll learn:
* How to find the right talent faster, using data-driven AI
* The best tools to find quality candidates who progress to face-to-face interviews
* How to assess and measure existing talent to become smarter about avoiding bad hires
* How to engage and grow current employees to decrease the costs of high turnover
* Whether your recruitment and retention efforts are "AI-ready"

Speakers:
* Angie College, Vice President of Operations for Adecco USA
* John Jersin, Head of Product, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
* Maribel Lopez, Founder, Lopez Research & Data For Betterment
* Rachael Brownell, Moderator, VentureBeat

Sponsored by Mya Systems

How to Use Behavioral Science to Attract Top-Performing Candidates
Companies today are challenged with managing a five generation, multinational workforce. Uniting this workforce to high levels of collaboration where individual insights and expertise are embraced and valued is a competitive advantage yet to be realized.
Using a behavioral science approach, we provide the tools to help you measure and assess individual social impact values and how these values align with your company culture. As a result, you’ll be able to attract a more diverse, high-performing pool of candidates.

Case studies will be provided that demonstrate the use of values-based data to:
- Decrease unconscious bias during the recruitment process
- Reveal each individual’s unique set of motivations, as well as social and engagement preferences
- Engineer a highly-engaged and productive workforce

Erin Michelson is CEO + Founder of Summery, a data analytics company that leverages behavior science to measure and assess individual social impact values and quantify corporate culture in order to engage corporate and nonprofit stakeholders. Erin has been profiled in @BBCTech, @Entrepreneur, @NPR, @NatGeoTraveler, @FoxNews, and @HuffPost. www.summery.ai

Every new employee is asked "How was your first day?" when they arrive home after starting a new job. How do your new employees answer that question?

Critical for employee success and retention, an effective on-boarding process for new hires gives them a great first impression of your company and sets the stage for their performance in the days ahead.

Register for this webinar to learn these key elements of a successful on-boarding process:
- Preparing for their first day
- How to make that great Day 1 first impression
- Setting them up for success in their first week and first month

Jennifer Leake CMC, Founder of Assessment Pros LLC has helped clients for over 20 years in their quest to avoid the costs of a wrong hire. It's vital to hire the right people because you can't train your way out of it when it happens, and the best product, processes or sales tools won't produce results if you don't have the right people in the job to begin with. Her 3-part "People System" creates high performing Employee Engagement with the right hires, on-going coaching and feedback and bosses people want to work for.

When Alice in Wonderland asked the Cheshire cat "Which way should I go from here?", he replied, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." The same holds true in hiring. When you fail to consider key factors in what you are looking for in an employee, the likelihood of hiring the wrong person increases substantially.

Register for this webinar to:
- Learn 5 keys for reducing the chance of a bad hire
- Tap into knowledge from current and past hires to gain key hiring information
- Understand the importance that job fit and job descriptions play in the hiring process

Jennifer Leake CMC, Founder of Assessment Pros LLC has helped clients for over 20 years in their quest to avoid the costs of a wrong hire. It's vital to hire the right people because you can't train your way out of it when it happens, and the best product, processes or sales tools won't produce results if you don't have the right people in the job to begin with. Her 3-part "People System" creates high performing Employee Engagement with the right hires, on-going coaching and feedback and bosses people want to work for.

Suzanne Paling, Founder of Sales Management Services, provides sales management consulting and coaching to company presidents, owners, entrepreneurs and business executives seeking to increase revenue by improving their sales organization’s performance. She has helped more than 55 companies hire qualified, motivated sales people and sales leaders and create an on-boarding process to help those new employees succeed. Suzanne is the author of two award-winning books “The Sales Leader’s Problem Solver” and “The Accidental Sales Manager”.

​In July we will be celebrating 3 years of writing Boolean Strings together, every day, for pay. It’s crazy to think of how far we’ve come in such a short time. To begin, we talk about this data, every day, too. It’s a scale of sourcing that we, frankly, haven’t had the pleasure to do back when we were “internal corporate guys” in recruiting or TA.

In our LIVE webinar session we will speak to what we have learned from over 10,000 hours of Boolean search string development.​

The UX for Recruitment Method trains recruiters to think like UX Researchers, positioning candidates as the end user of the recruiting process. Originally designed to help non-technical recruiters to better recruit in the tech industry, these tools can be used across all industries. These key UX tools speed up comprehension of new tech roles while improving engagement rates with passive talent and technical hiring managers.

In this hyper-focused session, Alison Daley of Recruiting Innovation will introduce you to the UX tools of Talent Personas, Journey Maps and Contextual Interviews. We will walk through a case study of how to apply these tools to your recruiting process. You will leave this session ready to hit the ground running with a new approach to your recruiting process, ensuring increased placements and confidence in your work.

Big data has become one of the guiding realities for businesses in today’s economy. As with many of its fellow departments, HR is now starting to realize the value and use Big Data to more accurately predict the health and productivity of the workforce.

In this webinar Tom McKeown, CEO and Co-Founder of TrenData will help define Big Data, in both structured and unstructured form, as well as providing methodologies to access and use Big Data to the business benefit of the organization. This will all be discussed in a framework of how to implement an overall people analytics strategy.

Tom McKeown is the CEO and Co-founder of TrenData. He is a senior executive with over twenty-five years of experience in bringing innovative software to market. Tom’s passion is to provide easy to use solutions that both visualize and guide organizations to their best possible future.

During his career, Tom has propelled growth in several early and middle stage start-up companies resulting in acquisitions that provided multi-million dollar returns for investors. In the past 10 years Tom has lead two Dallas based human resources software companies, HRsmart and Aquire Solutions, to triple digit growth and successful acquisitions by larger industry players. Prior to that Tom held senior level executive positions at Citrix Systems, Quantum Corporation, and Adobe Systems.


Tom is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science.

We provide an introduction into how to leverage behavioural science to better understand not only the corporation’s stated values but also the lived values of employees. By assessing institutional and individuals values, we can ascribe a numeric “score” that measures the cultural alignment (and misalignment) within the workplace. As a result, HR professionals gain the intelligence they need to recruit, retain and engineer a highly-engaged, top-performing workforce.

Learn how quantifying corporate culture can benefit:

* Executives: Increasing company profitability & employee performance
* Managers: Maximizing employee engagement & workgroup productivity
* Employees: Understanding cultural fit & opportunities for advancement

Erin Michelson is Founder & CEO of Summery (www.summery.ai), a data analytics company that leverages behavioural science to quantify institutional culture and individual social impact values. Recognized as a pioneer in the #PhilTech space, Erin has been profiled in @Entrepreneur, @BBCTech, @HuffPost, @NatGeoTravel, @NPR, @FoxNews.

Last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, best known for the annual Davos gatherings, added 47 years to the time necessary to reach workplace equality. According to the WEF, in 2017, gender parity ‘shifted into reverse” and it will take 217 YEARS for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end. It is the first time since 2006 that “slow but steady progress” toward parity has halted.

Join this interactive session to learn more about
- The factors that will help us close the gender pay gap
- The new opportunities available to women today

About the Speaker:
Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Innovation Women, a new model speaker’s bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women. The company helps connect women with event managers looking for speakers, panelists, moderators and presenters, especially for industry conferences and events. In 2010 Bobbie was named one of the “Ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community.”

Everyone would agree that annual performance management tools and processes are broken and many are looking towards continuous performance management, but most of the time this does not address the real criteria of performance. We will explain the equation of performance, detail the main criteria and show how to fix employee performance management and boost engagement at the same time.

When attracting and recruiting top talent, what does your organisation focus on? Pay? Financial and health benefits such as health insurance and pension or is it something else? Advertising what else your organisation does to promote employee experience and happiness will undoubtedly make you stand out. Attracting and retaining top talents needs an approach that is round and includes more than just pay and benefits. This webinar will look at some of the latest trends around happiness and growth mindset in organisation and why these are the secrets to creating a talent pool of top people in your organisation.

Presented by members of the VR/AR Association, a global industry group that has over 3900+ companies and universities registered and working together on best practices, guidelines, and standards. VR & AR is now used to train staff at companies like Walmart. Attend to learn more!

Employee Engagement Pulse Surveys are critical to every employee engagement strategy. During this webinar, DecisionWise's President, Greg Zippi, along with David L. Mason, Director of I/O Psychology explore the benefits of using frequent pulse surveys as part of your employee listening strategy.

Topics for discussion

1. Defining the different types of employee surveys
2. Proper use of pulse surveys
3. How to avoid survey fatigue
4. How technology improvements allow you to have a pulse on your overall employee engagement
5. How scientific questions with a statistical process can increase clarity around pulse survey response
6. A short demonstration of the DecisionWise pulse survey tools

Presenter Information:

Greg Zippi:

As President of DecisionWise, Greg Zippi is responsible for all client-facing aspects of the business including product development, marketing, sales and delivery. In addition, he oversees all strategic business development initiatives.

Dr. David Mason

David is an experienced Consultant and leads the I/O Psychology and Data Science learning and curriculum efforts at DecisionWise, and is responsible for the design of our training, facilitation, and workshops. He leads sessions throughout the world on employee engagement and workplace learning. Having completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at Columbia University, and undergraduate and graduate degrees in Psychology at Brigham Young University, Dr. Mason turns his understanding of adult learning and psychology into business concepts, working with numerous businesses and academic institutions. Prior to joining DecisionWise, David taught in the Department of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences at University College London. In addition to Dr. Mason’s strong presentation and facilitation skills, DecisionWise often taps into his extensive knowledge of statistics and research in developing and evaluating assessments.

DecisionWise will help you understand how to create an engaged workforce. This is the age of the employee, and the majority of organizations are failing to meet their employee's expectations, why?

The authors of the best selling book The Employee Experience will share best practices for improving the employee experience and creating engaged employees in your organization.

What you can expect to learn:

--What are the different contracts we make with our employees can lead to expectation misalignment.

--The difference between the Employee Experience and Employee Engagement

--Company maturity impacts your employee experience strategy.

--Market trends that may impact the employee experience

All attendees will receive a free book signed by the authors.

Dr. Tracy Maylett: Tracy's business, coaching, and consulting background extends over a period of two decades and across five continents.Tracy is the Chief Executive Officer of DecisionWise, and is responsible for guiding the overall strategy of DecisionWise, as well as leading large-scale change efforts for clients throughout the globe.

Matt Wride, JD:As DecisionWise’s Chief Operating Officer and executive consultant, Matt oversees the company’s operations, as well as its finance, legal, and administrative functions. He consults with executives around the globe on creating employee engagement at the organizational, team, and individual levels.

How can women best position themselves to navigate today's digital workplace, grow their sphere of influence and maximize career growth. This interactive Webcam Panel session in the "Women in Tech" series showcases the journeys of inspirational women who have advanced their careers in tech in innovative and standout ways.

Speakers:
- Sandy Atwell, Board of Directors, UCX and VP of Business Development, Calgary Scientific
- Kelly Ireland, CEO and Founder of CB Technologies
- Laura Fucci, CIO of City of Henderson
- Jocelyn DeGance Graham, Founder, CloudNOW

It’s impossible to retain top talent if they never make it onboard!

Over one third of employers report losing candidates because of a bad background screening process. In a competitive labor market, even the slightest hitch in the hiring process can lead to a poor candidate experience and lost hires. In contrast, well implemented background screens can improve the candidate experience, reduce risky hires, and lead to reduced turnover.

You will learn:
-Why background screening is critical to the candidate experience
-What to look for when selecting and implementing a background screening provider
-How background screening can impact your overall employer brand and improve retention rates

In a global market that can be quick to change and volatile diverse skills and ideas are needed more than ever. However when faced with over 200 applicants or more for just two roles, time constraints and efficiency needed to whittle candidates down can lead to organisations missing these hidden qualities. Changing the way we recruit can be risky, but small changes in how we attract, select and interact with potential talent can make a difference long term. In this introductory webinar, suggestions about how to do this will be made and discussed.

If you train people, but don’t proactively manage the transfer of that learning into the workflow, you are wasting your money. And yet so few organisations manage learning transfer well, if at all. It is the elephant in the room. Learn how to ‘see’ the elephant, and then how to manage learning transfer so you get a better return on your training/learning investment.

Receive HRCI and SHRM credit for attending.

During this webinar we’ll share the best methods for preparing, administering, and rolling out the results from your employee engagement survey based on over 20 years of experience conducting surveys around the world. We’ll also identify the most common mistakes organizations make when conducting an employee engagement survey and how to avoid them.

During this webinar we will cover the following topics:

6 anchor questions that measure employee engagement
How to achieve high participation
Ensuring confidentiality to collect honest feedback
3 common survey administration mistakes
Effective ways to roll out the results
Training managers to conduct action planning meetings
Holding leaders accountable to improve engagement

About the Presenter: Christian Nielson is a Principal Consultant at DecisionWise and leads a team of consultants who conduct engagement surveys for clients around the world. He is an expert on how to conduct employee surveys and get the most from the results.