The Social Recruiting Conference will be held at Cavendish Conference Centre. It is located in Central London, 5 minutes walk from Oxford Circus Underground.

Yesterday I wrote about some of the things we expect from the conference in terms of content and direction – Oh, was that last week, sorry lol.

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Just before we launch into what the conference agenda will feature in more details, tomorrow is the last day for our discounted rate. So quickly book a ticket now on this link, and come back to read this post. It will be here waiting for you!

At the start, and after sounding the conference to a few chaps, some were concerned that all the speakers will be talking about the same thing, since its a case study event. This is not what they said, but my intepretation of what they think the speakers will discuss is: ‘We use Facebook to recruit graduates and Twitter to post jobs and LinkedIn to attract experienced talent’.

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Following on from yesterday’s post on the planning for the Social Recruiting Conference, I will now be writing about how we selected the conference speakers. On hindsight, trying to organise an event and convince corporate recruiters to discuss their social media recruiting strategy was a little bit risky, especially for a concept that is relatively new. It will have been easier to invite independent consultants (whom we know) and recruitment vendors, as speakers who will dish out ideas and advice on social recruiting, like many other conferences.

But the original motivation for this event was to bring in people who actually manage these processes. It is not just what they have achieved (i.e. twitter profiles, facebook pages and linkedin usage) that we were looking for. It was important to see how they developed an internal social media recruiting strategy; the barriers, the challenges and possible failures and potential successes.

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If you are reading this, you probably know about the Social Recruiting Conference. Alan Whitford and myself are putting together a 1 day conference that will feature case studies of organizations, who have incorporated Social Media into their recruitment strategy. The event is scheduled for 30th November 2010, in London. We announced #srconf on 1st July, after over a month of planning.

I have always wanted to write a bit about the ‘behind the scenes’ planning process, inspired by this post; partly to provide some level of openness; partly to share some relevant tips and ideas to anyone interested in coordinating a conference in the future.

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