List of optional events - click on the links below to learn more:

For HR Professionals ONLY:
  • Selecting and Working with Executive Search Firms


    • For Executive Search and HR Professionals:
  • Competitive Advantage Through Technology




    • Selecting and Working with Executive Search Firms

    Target: HR Professionals involved in Executive Recruiting and the management of search activity at their companies.

    Cost: €325 / GB£250 / US$475

    Venue: Hilton, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Date: 20 October 2008; 9:30am-12:30pm

    Replicating the highly successful meetings of the Executive Search Information Exchange over the past 12 years in the U.S., David Lord facilitates a discussion among executive talent professionals from global companies. Here, among peers, participants will share experiences in managing executive search activity, assessing leadership talent, selecting and engaging search firms, recruiting directly at the executive level, and improving the organization’s ability to hire effectively at senior levels.

    The group will be limited to 30 participants.

    David Lord

    David Lord is Founder and Principal of Executive Search Information Services (ESIS), where he helps companies improve executive recruiting effectiveness, and assists in selecting and engaging executive search resources.

    He’s been called “the Nostradamus of executive recruiting” and has assisted more than 100 Fortune 500 organizations over the past 12 years.

    David is facilitator of the Executive Search Information Exchange (ESIX), a network of executive talent officers from70 leading corporations who meet regularly in New York and on the West Coast, sharing information on best practices in executive recruiting worldwide.

    And he is founder of the Executive Search Academy, a 2-day program on best practices in corporate executive recruiting, held twice a year in New York.

    David is a frequently quoted writer and speaker on issues in executive recruiting and has been an analyst of the executive search profession since 1987. He is former Editor at Kennedy Information, publishers of Executive Recruiter News and The Directory of Executive Recruiters. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the College of William & Mary.


    Competitive Advantage Through Technology

    Target: Executive Search Professionals and HR Professionals involved in Executive Recruiting - ***LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE***

    Cost: FREE to main conference attendees

    Venue: Hilton, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Date: 20 October 2008; 9:30am - 12:45pm

    Technology has radically altered the way that we all do business. Complex and constantly evolving, it is easy to just see technology as necessary burden. But at its best, technology can help firms innovate and gain competitive advantage.

    This workshop will cut through the jargon and look at practical case studies, presented in plain English.

    Topics include:
        o The use of technology to promote quality and best practise
        o Attracting and retaining the best candidates
        o Brand management
        o Leveraging the internet as a research tool.

    Speakers feature those responsible for implementing technology at leading Search firms and representatives from key suppliers to the industry.
    Please refer to the Speakers page for biographies:
        o William Barribal, Founder & Managing Director, in2Vista Ltd
        o Fiona Bunker, Quality & Process Manager, Odgers Ray & Berndtson
        o John Callagher, International Director, SpenglerFox
        o Chris Forman, President, AIRS
        o Rob Grimsey, Strategic Development Director, Harvey Nash Plc
        o Betty Thayer, CEO, exec-appointments.com,
          a Financial Times company
        o Katharina C. Toth, Consultant & Head of Research,
          NP Neumann & Partners GmbH
        o Celeste Whatley, VP Marketing, Technology and Quality,
          TRANSEARCH International Partners Plc

    If you wish to attend this workshop as well as the conference or other workshops, please click on the PAY NOW button at the top of this page to proceed to the online payment facility. This workshop is FREE and you will only pay for other events you have selected.

    To check availability or to make a booking please call +44 (0)20 7749 6102 or send an email to events@search-consult.com

    Alex James

    Alex graduated from Swansea University in 1995 with a degree in psychology and is a PRINCE 2 qualified practitioner. In 1995 Alex joined Mallinckrodt Veterinary working in quality control. In 1997 he moved to Responseability, a company that manages aspects of the recruitment process for clients, starting in administration before progressing into an account management role. Alex started at Dillistone in 1999 in a training/consultancy position prior to becoming the UK and then Global Projects Manager, being ultimately responsible for the implementation of all products and services to both new and existing clients. Alex joined the Board of Dillistone Systems Limited in January 2005 and the Group Board in February 2006.

    Alex James is the Projects Director for Dillistone Systems; he oversees all Dillistone project implementations globally.