Onrec.com online recruitment Conference, Sydney Australia 7th April 2005

Onrec.com and Online recruitment magazine, UK-based news distributors of online recruitment news and information are holding a day conference on the 7th April in Sydney, Australia.

The conference is to take place at the Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel, 30 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia and will include a line up of speakers who all have a different perspective of online recruitment recruitment.

David Hurst, publisher of Onrec.com and Online recruitment magazine stated: ìThis is a very exciting time for us; we have conferences running in London, New York and Brussels. Our friends in Australia asked us why we didnít do the same thing in Oz, so here we areî.

Hurst continues: ìWe are overwhelmed with the response we have had from our Australian counterparts. There is a great opportunity for networking and learning and it will be very interesting to see what develops. The speakers at the event are truly first class and itís very humbling to find that everyone involved is so dedicated to supporting what is turning into a very vibrant and vivacious industryî.

Speaker Lineup for the conference
Paul Bassat, CEO and co-founder of SEEK will talk about online recruitment strategy. SEEK has been recognised as one of the fastest growing businesses in the Asia Pacific region as well as one of the Best Employers to work for in Australia. SEEK is also recognised as Australia and New Zealandís leading online employment sites.

Todd Wheatland is a ten-year veteran in human resources and marketing. The founding editor of industry portal hrmanager.com, he maintains an active interest in the issues and in particular the technological changes that are shaping the new HR. Todd will be talking about the rise of employer branding, combined with demographic, technology and metrics trends, and how these are having a profound impact on the nature of online recruitment. Todd looks at the next generation of solutions that are already transforming the industry.

Todd is regional director of marketing at Kelly Services, a Fortune 500 global leader in staffing services. Kelly serves 200,000 customers through 2,500 offices across 27 countries.

Fiona Brady has over eighteen years in recruitment and more recently online recruitment. Having returned to Australia last year upon successfully selling her HR online recruitment business, she identified an opportunity for a specialist Fin/Banking jobsite in Australia to deliver dual jobseekers from the UK. www.fbnetwork.com.au is now positioned to be the portal of choice for Senior jobseekers earning over $60k whom want to be notified of the best jobs in Finance and Banking directly whilst giving them a choice of leading Recruiters and Employers.

Fiona will cover online recruitment with the view from the jobseekers perspective.

John Benson is founder and CEO of eFinancialCareers.com, the webís largest network of jobsites dedicated to the finance industry. eFinancialCareers has sites in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland and partners with leading financial brands such as Bloomberg, Thomson Financial, Financial News and Institutional Investor. His talk encompasses ëThe Global Niche Perspectiveí of online recruitment.

Greame Roweís session will be about outcomes, trends and pitfalls. Graemeís experience in the development of Internet and ecommerce services is extensive. He has introduced some of the first broadband services in Australasia and hosted application services in both Australia and New Zealand. Graeme heads the RECRUITadvantage sales and marketing operations and is a key interface between customer need and product development strategy.

Davor Miskulin formed Resumo Pty Ltd in 2002 with the purpose to actively develop and promote advanced leading-edge candidate evaluation and resume screening systems. In the same year Resumo has made strategic alliance with the Burning Glass Technologies from USA, developer of the worlds most advanced and effective artificial intelligence solutions for resume processing, screening and search. His talk ñ ëEffective use of Technology in the early stages of the recruitment processí will provide an eye-opening insight into the latest methodologies behind Candidate Screening and Assessment.

Andrew Banks completed six successful years in the international corporate sector as a human resources professional working in the UK, Norway and the USA, before returning to Australia to join the Executive Recruitment Industry in its early years of development.

In 1985, together with Geoff Morgan, he founded Morgan & Banks and grew the company to become the dominant recruitment force in Australia and Asia. The company went public in 1995 and sales grew to over $700 million, before it was acquired by TMP/Monster.com in 1999, a US listed company on the NASDAQ. Andrew will talk about Trends in Human Capital Management and where online fits into ìbest practise.

To book, please email Wendy@onrec.com (tel. 44 (1702) 382330

Price is $195 AU dollars

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