Best Practices in Search Firm Management and Branding
Target: Senior Executives of Executive Search Firms - * LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE *
Cost: HK$3,500 / US$475 / GBP250
Venue: Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong
Date: 9.30am–12.30 pm OR 1:30pm-4:30pm, 6 NOVEMBER 2007
PLEASE NOTE: By popular demand, this workshop will be available twice on 6 November. The morning session will run from 9:30am-12:30pm, and the afternoon session will be from 1:30pm to 4:30pm.
Both sessions will offer the exact same content.
The increasingly global demands of recruiting world-class executive talent are pressuring executive search firms to elevate performance and expand their capacity to meet corporate clients' shifting senior leadership needs. Join the world's leading analyst, author and consultant on executive search best practices for a provocative half-day workshop focused on ways to win more business, compete more effectively against larger search firms and leverage thought leadership and performance metrics to transform the client experience and build the value of your brand.
Topics to be covered include:
The Business Cycle and How Search Firms Must Counter It
- A Fresh Look at Retained Search Fees and Shifting Client Expectations
- Search Firm Valuation: Making Sense of Potential Exit Strategies
- The Elements of an Outstanding Search Firm Branding Campaign
- Planning for the Future of Executive Search
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Joseph Daniel McCool
Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker and independent consultant on executive recruiting best practices, search firm strategy and corporate management succession. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the global executive search business and its impact on organizational performance, culture and profits. He also writes as senior contributing editor for ExecuNet and featured columnist for search-consult Magazine.
Mr. McCool is the former Editor in Chief of Executive Recruiter News (ERN), which has provided insight, analysis, data and opinion on the global executive search consulting business since 1980. During his eight-year tenure in that role, he created and hosted the Executive Search Summit held annually in New York City from 2001 through 2005, and edited the Corporate and International editions of The Directory of Executive Recruiters, widely respected resources for companies and hiring executives wishing to select and engage executive search consultants. He also authored a market research report entitled, Executive Recruiting: Fees, Compensation & Key Operating Benchmarks. Mr. McCool was also a Vice President with ERN’s New Hampshire-based publisher, Kennedy Information Inc., a subsidiary of the Bureau of National Affairs Inc., in Washington, D.C.
He has become the world’s most widely quoted analyst of the global business of executive search consulting and its role in management succession. He has appeared on CNBC, been interviewed on the CNN Radio Network and has been quoted in news stories published in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and newswires worldwide including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times, Business Week, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail of Toronto, Corporate Boardmember Magazine, and Investor’s Business Daily.
Mr. McCool has been a speaker at conferences addressing issues of executive search, management succession, and corporate recruiting best practices around the world and has also written on executive management issues for European CEO Magazine and Healthcare Executive Magazine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Plymouth State University and a masters’ degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University, a leading Jesuit institution.
Winning With Clients – An Insider Shares What Every Recruiter Needs to Know! **SOLD OUT!**
Target: Senior Executives of Executive Search Firms - ** SOLD OUT **
Cost: HK$3,500 / US$475 / GBP250
Venue: Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong
Date: 1.30 – 4.30 pm, 6 NOVEMBER 2007
Today’s client is a highly educated buyer of executive search services, asking tougher questions, requiring more frequent communication and demanding more detailed deliverables. As Client expectations on fees, reporting and performance metrics steadily increase, how does the search professional anticipate the Client’s needs? As an experienced search consultant and corporate consumer of retained search, our industry expert shares what every recruiter should know before heading into a client relationship and how to exceed their expectations.
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW SOLD OUT.
Nancie Whitehouse
Nancie S. Whitehouse, Principal of Whitehouse Advisors, provides strategic search advisory consulting services to companies redefining their business and requiring exceptional new talent.
She counsels corporations and private equity firms on recruiting and retention processes including:
• Evaluating current talent management processes; identifying gaps in best practices and providing customized solutions.
• Developing strategic recruitment plans and high impact recruiting solutions that complement overall business strategy.
• Counseling functional organization leadership teams on recruitment methods, and staffing process improvement.
• Providing comprehensive reviews of position profiles and descriptions.
• Developing/improving an organization’s competence in aligning candidates’ expectations with corporate culture, job content, executive/leadership development and compensation.
• Managing communication with candidates for targeted executive leadership roles.
• Assessing, recommending and selecting executive search firms specific to individual leadership requirements.
Before launching Whitehouse Advisors in 2005, Nancie was Director Search Strategies at General Atlantic (formerly General Atlantic Partners), a leading global private equity firm providing capital for growth companies driven by information technology or intellectual property. There she was responsible for driving the assessment, selection and management of executive search firms and search related activities in approximately 60 GA portfolio companies globally. Joining GA in 1997, Nancie also provided assistance in the areas of executive compensation, organizational development, and recruiting and retention strategies.
Prior to joining General Atlantic, Nancie spent eighteen years in the executive search profession, most recently with a boutique search firm specializing in recruiting leaders in the software and services sector. She spent the first fifteen years of her career with Korn/Ferry International, in a series of increasingly responsible positions in recruiting and research, both the New York and Stamford, Connecticut offices.
Nancie received her Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education from the University of Hartford, and currently resides with her husband Tom in Stamford, Connecticut. She Chairs the Board of Directors of the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters (IACPR) and is on the Advisory Board of the Executive Grapevine. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Executive Search Information Exchange and the Executive Search Academy.
Asia / Pacific FILEFINDER User Conference
Target: Users of FILEFINDER Executive Search software only * LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE *
Cost: FREE to FILEFINDER clients with current support contracts
Venue: Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong
Date: 9.30 – 12.30 pm, 6 NOVEMBER 2007
Dillistone Systems is delighted to announce its first regional User Conference for clients in Asia. The FILEFINDER User Conference will be hosted by Iain Martin – General Manager Asia/Pacific and it will provide a valuable insight into some of the more advanced features in FILEFINDER, a demonstration of FILEFINDER 8, and a forum for user questions.
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Iain Martin
Online Recruitment in China - a half-day workshop chaired by David Hurst, Publisher and Founder of Onrec.com
Target: Human Resource professionals from international companies looking at the opportunities in China; organizations based in China, looking to embrace recruitment online, as well as suppliers providing the technology to facilitate the process.
Cost: HK$3,500 / US$475 / GBP250
Venue: Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong
Date: 12:30pm - 6pm, 8 NOVEMBER 2007
China leads the world in many areas, but what about recruiting? And how is the online recruitment industry developing?
Onrec.com is holding a conference in Hong Kong to bring together experts on the Chinese online recruitment industry to provide a forum for HR professionals, recruiters and suppliers to hear about the market to date, its growth and the future.
No doubt we will find synergies with the growth of online recruitment in other countries but to also understand the nuances that are special the emerging recruitment market in China. This event promises to be fascinating for all who attend.
All the most up-to-date information, the conference program, speakers as well as sponsorhip and exhibiting opportunities can be found on Online Recruitment in China website.
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More about Onrec.com
David Hurst founded DH Publishing Ltd in 1999 to provide Human Resource Directors and recruiters with information on the online recruitment market.
The company now creates forums of discussion by sharing information online, in print and in person with conferences around the world bringing experts and practitioners together to discuss and exchange information.
The website, www.onrec.com, began with a database of job boards in the UK, with news being posted on a monthly basis. Today, the site has news posted daily, and contains databases of both suppliers and job boards in 57 countries.
Ninety five thousand people subscribe to Onrec.com’s daily newsletters, while the search engines Google and yahoo checks the site every 15 minutes for their news services.