08:15 – 09:05

REGISTRATION

REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS & PEER TO PEER NETWORKING

50 MINUTES

09:05 – 09:10

WELCOME ADDRESS

WELCOME  & WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE DAY

5 MINUTES

Highlights include understanding how to build a successful consultancy, the latest technologies and solutions available for recruiters, current trends in recruitment, how to use social networks to maximum effect and hearing why recruiters are harnessing the power of crowdsourcing to increase new client relationships and in turn fee income.

ALAN WHITFORD

Director

RCEURO

09:10– 09:40

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

HOW TO BUILD & SCALE A SUCCESSFULL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS

30 MINUTES

John is an entrepreneur with a leadership background in staffing and recruitment. Having worked as a director for several of the top global staffing companies including founding Best International Group which grew to £130million turnover in 18 months and sold to Spring Group in 2003.

Now NED and strategic adviser to several carefully selected companies in the recruitment sector.

John will discuss;

• Why a Good Plan is Vital
• What is the Difference that makes the Difference
• The Leadership Factor

JOHN O'SULLIVAN

Chairman 

Rethink Group

09:40 – 09:50

PRODUCT PRESENTATION

INTEGRATING LEADING RECRUITMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY

10 MINUTES

With recruiter sales and resourcing time of the essence in today’s market it’s imperative that recruiters are not restricted with administration and having to use numerous disparate systems.

• Reaching the best candidates, first.
• Achieving complete visibility of your recruitment
• Using a single platform to integrate all of your tools
• Efficiencies of using the best technologies together

CHRIS KENDRICK

Recruitment Services Director

Mercury XRM

09:50 – 10:15

PRODUCT PRESENTATION

BIG DATA & SOURCING CANDIDATES

25 MINUTES

Sourcing candidates is big business. Looking at global and local sources, Steve discusses how and why you should know all you can about where you make your ROI within your candidate attraction strategy.  

STEVE BARNHURST

Agency Director

Broadbean

10:15 – 10:30

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

UNDERSTANDING FACTORING, INVOICE FINANCE, AND INVOICE DISCOUNTING 

15 MINUTES

Richard leads a team of Business Development & Invoice Finance Managers for the London region.

Responsibilities include,overall revenue performance for HSBC's Commercial Invoice Finance segment (£2.0m to £25.0m) for new & existing customer relationships together with working alongside HSBC's Regional Leadership Teams on Bank strategy

His previous roles include Operations Director at SME Invoice Finance and Senior Management roles at Lloyds TSB.

Regional Director - HSBC Invoice Finance

HSBC Invoice Finance

KEY PRESENTATION

THE POWER OF RECRUITMENT CROWDSOURCING

20 MINUTES

TheJobPost brings thousands of specialist recruiters together on a cloud-based trading platform enabling employers to access the UK and Europe's entire recruitment industry as one supplier.

• Combining crowdsourcing and human-based computation, our platform enables:
• Employers to fill their vacancies faster, more efficiently and at lower cost
• Recruiters access to fee income from employers who become new clients

MARC WILLIAMS

Director

TheJobPost

10:50 – 11:20

REFRESHMENTS

REFRESHMENT BREAK & PEER TO PEER NETWORKING

30 MINUTES

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

LINKEDIN AND THE FUTURE OF RECRUITMENT

25 MINUTES

In a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depend upon faster access to people, insights, and resources you can trust.

Often referred to as the social platform for business, LinkedIn can help maximise your hiring, marketing and sales functions, inform your business strategies and increase performance

OLLIE SHARPE

UK Manager - Staffing and Search

LinkedIn

PRODUCT PRESENTATION

SUPPLY MODELS DEMYSTIFIED

10 MINUTES

SmartWork is the preferred contractor 'umbrella' company for flexible workers who seek an over-arching “umbrella” employer to care for them. This leaves them free to focus fully on providing their services without worrying about the administration.

SAM HURLEY

Head of External Relations & Compliance - APSCo 

SmartWork

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

THE FRAGMENTING WORKFORCE - A FLEXIBLE FRIEND OR FOE?

20 MINUTES

Belinda Johnson, Owner of WorkLab and author of a recent report for the REC into the changing landscape of recruitment, presents findings from various pieces of research:

• 42% of the UK workforce works outside the legacy concept of full-time employment.
• This session looks at the composition of the UK's fragmenting workforce - and reflects on who/what is driving the increasing range of engagement options.
• Moreover, what does this all mean for the recruitment industry?

BELINDA JOHNSON

Director

Worklab

PRODUCT PRESENTATION

HOW OUTSOURCING CAN UNLOCK YOUR BUSINESS POTENTIAL

10 MINUTES

Marie’s extensive experience and knowledge within the sector has allowed her to advise and support various recruitment companies in becoming more efficient and enable growth. 

The Recruitment sector and the wider business world isincreasingly embracing the concept of outsourcing some or all of their back office functions. We’ll share our theories as to why that is, our experiences as a key strategic partner and how we’ve helped business owners to:

• Avoid getting bogged down with administrative functions which don’t drive the business forward
• Lose the dilemma of when to take on additional staff to deal with growth or shed staff to deal with quieter times
• Improve the quality, timeliness and accessibility of management information
• Integrate their business critical software packages
• Manage ever changing laws and regulations

MARIE PEGRAM

Portfolio Holder

Virtual Business Source

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

UNDERSTANDING HOW TALENT MAKE DECISIONS

20 MINUTES

Alan Whitford and Guests will host the last presentation of the morning bringing together technology theme and issues in a fast paced session   

ALAN WHITFORD

Director

RCEuro

12:45– 13:35

NETWORKING

LUNCH & PEER TO PEER NETWORKING

50 MINUTES

13:35

CONCLUSION

EVENT CONCLUDES