Topic: Recruitment Technology

Col Levander has worked within the Recruitment Industry for nearly 30 years.

His recruitment career commenced working from an entry level consulting and resourcing position to Branch, State, Regional and National roles in Operations and Sales working for small niche businesses, National companies and Global organisations.

Col has also started, built and grown four recruitment agencies over this time.

In 2010, Col turned his hands on experience in recruitment to his passion with technology where he identified value in providing an informed technology conversation with real life “Best Practice” experience in the recruitment market sector.

As a visionary and entrepreneur, Col has co-developed software solutions aligned specifically to our industry and is the trusted source that business leaders turn to for independent technology advice and consulting services.

His business; Rec Tech is a solutions based Business efficiency and operational analysis advisory supported by his bespoke Industry aligned software evaluation tool “Skope.s” © as well as his new software product- ratescalc.com for the contingent staffing industry here in Australia.

Col is the founder of Recruitment yarns and is renown for his contributions to the Recruitment industry across the Asia Pacific region.

Topic: Disruptive Technology

David Macciocca is the Founder & CEO of VideoMyJob. He has combined his love of recruitment, his technology background and entrepreneurial spirit to bring his vision for video job advertising to life.

VideoMyJob is a fast-growing HR Tech startup, helping companies to engage talent and reach passive candidates using video. It enables recruitment and talent acquisition teams to easily create branded video job ads and is a powerful way to showcase your brand, people and employee value proposition.

Given this product, David's round table is guaranteed to be interactive with a focus on demonstrating how video can play a beneficial role within recruitment workflow to drive efficiency.

This invaluable discussion will include lively debate around:

• How video job advertising can reduce the time to hire and easily connect jobseekers with your brand
• How video connects you more closely with your clients
• Statistics on video job performance vs text ads
• Real life examples of agencies who have introduced video into their workflow
• VidBoost (Ad Tech) - what is it, and how it targets candidates
• How to use video to build diversity

Topic: Good Work Safety Practices

Dianne is the Managing Director of Certex International and has been working in the recruitment industry for the last 13 years. A management consultant with over two decades of experience, specialising in change management, project management, performance improvement and quality management, Dianne has written a number of industry standards, including the Service Delivery Standard for RCSA in 2004

Dianne is a qualified lead auditor in the three of the most prominent ISO business standards and is recognised as a leading expert in recruitment best practice and compliance issues.

The world of standards is very confusing. There are literally thousands of standards and options. Even though only a handful are relevant to recruitment businesses, some standards are more suitable and better valued by clients. Should you go for 9001 or an industry standard? Which is easier? Which will win you more work? Do you need to be certified? What is involved? Do you need a dedicated Quality Manager? When should you do this? Who should you talk to? Dianne will address these questions and help you map your pathway.

Topic: Immigration

Patrick is an experienced executive spanning Recruitment Resourcing, Building materials and Immigration industries across his 30-year career.

Hemisphere Migration is a consultancy service that combines experience and specialist capability in Business, Executive Recruitment and Migration. Coupled with the latest learning within the Migration law landscape, it gives Hemisphere Migration the edge in the Australian Migration Industry.

Patrick is one of the leading proponents of On-hire Labour Agreements in Australia. Rarely promoted or discussed, this recruitment model provides businesses with flexible sponsoring arrangements within the Migration Act.

As the holder of an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a Graduate Certificate in Migration Law & Practice from Griffith University Patrick Vanderham is more than qualified to bring newfound Migration consulting to the Australian recruitment market and wider business market.

Patrick’s roundtable will highlight details of a new model of engagement with sponsored visa holders in Australia and how you can have a 457-visa holder approved in half the time.

His will also carefully outline your client’s sponsorship obligations as the holder of a Labour Agreement.

Topic: Outsource (onshore & offshore)

Glen is the CEO of Outsourcing Wizard, an administration services company focused on creating operational excellence for Staffing and Recruitment agencies across the globe.

For the last decade, Glen has successfully established and developed several companies in the Recruitment Technology, Business Consulting, and Outsourcing industries. With a Bachelor in Economics from Sydney University and a CPA qualification, Glen has combined his Accounting and Finance background with a passion for technology to deliver on strategic solutions at product, sales and commercial levels.

Glen’s track record is solidly backed with executive experience spanning 20 years in the technology, operations, finance, and HR functions both in Australia and abroad. His corporate experience includes roles held at Brambles, Staples, Franklins, Hudson, Talent2, Monster and Virgin Atlantic.

Glen has a global focus and holds a strong conviction that clients are no longer bound by geographical borders and as such need to be serviced seamlessly, no matter where they are located.

As a boy raised in the NSW countryside within a large family and with limited resources, Glen appreciates the value of hard work with a bit of good ole Aussie ingenuity.

Glenn’s roundtable session will explore some of the key questions that are often asked when considering outsourcing, including:

• Why outsource, the benefits and how to measure ROI
• Functions that may be considered to outsource
• The best locations to outsource to
• A discussions around the possible risks and pitfalls
• Ideas to ensure quality and consistency of service

Topic: Workforce Contractor Management

Michael is the General Manager of Oncore Services for Australia and New Zealand.

Qualified as a Lawyer, Michael cut his teeth in several senior recruitment roles prior to joining Oncore in 2005. Oncore provides several hundred Recruitment businesses a range of outsourced solutions for the management of contractor placements.

Michael’s roundtable will focus on managing contractor engagements. From understanding the different terminology used, to the risk versus reward proposition for your business and its balance sheet, this session will incorporate compliance and contractual issues relating to insurances, work health and safety and taxation remittance.

Michael will explore the overarching workflows from the point of sourcing a contractor candidate, to the negotiation of the contract role with your candidate and client, effective onboarding and induction processes, time and attendance capture/authorisation through to invoicing, payment terms and reconciliations. It is expected people will participate with practical scenarios and receive a comprehensive overview of your business' risk, system and human resource requirements to run a successful and profitable contractor book.

Topic: Recruitment Marketing 101

Marketing has been an important thread running throughout Rebecca’s recruitment career.

She has facilitated various webinars and seminars on analytics, and personal branding, run corporate and jobseeker focus group events as well as initiated a number of strategic business and community partnerships.

Rebecca’s mission at Prominence is to elevate the profile of the recruitment industry and to help recruitment agencies to attract relevant clients and candidates in their areas of specialisation, now and into the future. She works with recruitment agencies throughout the Asia-Pacific region ensuring that any tactical marketing campaigns and activities align to each agency’s strategic objectives.

If the phrases content writing, job marketing, social recruiting, mobile recruiting, google analytics, SEO, AdWords, personal branding all sound familiar but you’re keen to know what all the fuss is about them, Rebecca is your lady.

Topic: Analytics & Benchmarking

Highly regarded and widely sought after for his knowledge, unwavering passion and innovation, Nigel is a 40 year veteran of the recruitment industry.

Spending his first 10 years in the UK working his way up from Temp Consultant to Director before coming to Australia in the early 90’s as CEO to a floundering multi-national firm, turning it into an unrivalled success under his leadership.

Nigel founded RIB Report in 2003 in response to recruitment business leaders hunger for factual and unbiased, external comparisons. For more than a decade RIBreport has been providing reports and information about the recruitment industry and it is the only source of qualified data relating to financial and operational performance and efficiencies. 

The new RIBreport is an online powerhouse of capacity and capability. It delivers quality information with extensive reporting functions and data filters for deeper analysis. Easy deployment and fast access to data, along with currency conversion options means the RIB reporting service can be accessed across all locations and countries.

Nigel will be getting people excited and engaged with his ‘METRICS that MATTER for better INFORMED decisions’ roundtable.

With so much to be across when you are running and growing a successful recruitment firm, the RIBreport helps you keep an eye on all of the metrics that matter so at any given moment, you can make better informed decisions about your business direction and future.

We know that the sustainable firms know exactly what they need to improve on, by how much and by when – you will too during this discussion group.

Topic: Insurance

Travis offers more than 10 years’ experience providing risk and insurance placement advice specialising in financial and professional risks. He has serviced a wide variety of corporate and commercial businesses.

He has designed and implemented insurance programs for global businesses, and leveraged his network to deliver insurance solutions from the global market. Travis has a strong technical background which he has used to deliver a number of exclusive insurance products for Arthur J. Gallagher clients including our Recruitment, IT Liability and Cyber wordings.

Topic: Job Boards

Gumtree.com.au is Australia’s leading community marketplace with a unique audience of over 7 million Australians*. Each day Gumtree connects tens of thousands of people with others in their local area to find, buy and sell everything from furniture and homewares to cars, jobs, business services, real estate.

Gumtree.com.au is part of the eBay Classifieds Group, the world’s largest classified business group.

Gumtree’s session will focus on:

1. Why Gumtree is concentrating on the jobs category
2. Highlighting how Gumtree differentiates itself from other boards
3. Explaining how Gumtree can provide you access to a passive candidate audience
4. The changes that Gumtree has made to its jobs category since the launch of Gumtree Jobs
5. Sharing the types of roles that are most successful when placed on Gumtree

Topic: Superannuation

Kinetic Super, formally known as RecruitmentSuper, has been providing superannuation solutions to businesses in the recruitment and employment services sector for over 20 years.

Phil Seubert has over 10 years’ experience in Financial Services and over 6 years with Kinetic Super.

Phil will demonstrate how to use Superannuation as a tool to enhance your employee value proposition as well as highlight the service model that has seen Kinetic Super be the leader in super solutions for the recruitment sector.

Topic: Recruitment Marketing 101

As Director of Prominence, Chris is the first-person recruiters speak to when trying to get a handle on their marketing activity. He is also highly involved in the day to day delivery on all client accounts, but is slowly learning to let his fantastic team take care of business and to only interfere when needed!

Chris is inspired by people that break the mould and try to make things better.

Chris’s roundtable is guaranteed to be robust to ensure that you walk away from this session with clear, actionable tips that will help your recruitment business to grow market share.

• Succeeding in a ‘review’ society
• How to get your recruiters involved
• New technology
• Automated leads machines
• Tips on leading from the front
• Building a blogging culture
• Getting sales collateral right
• Recruiting recruiters
• Avoiding wasted time and money

Topic: How to minimise worker’s compensation premiums

Manage Damage is a Risk Management Advisory Firm that focuses on the true cost of risk.

Specialising in Workcover premium reductions, Manage Damage has developed unique IP on allocation of costs, and work closely with clients to provide their business with specialist advisors who can drive efficiency, productivity and profitability.

Manage Damage has saved organisations millions of dollars in Workers Compensation and associated insurance costs for over a decade. They stand apart from other firms by looking at business and risk differently – assessing a company’s portfolio via the cost of damage.

They focus on business’ insurance premiums and the values against industry standards.

This roundtable will share key details about understanding premium calculations, company cost and industry averages and incentives to gain significant premium reductions and savings.

Topic: Artificial Intelligence/Bots and Big Data

Extending upon Col’s roundtable relating to recruitment technology trends, this masterclass will answer the questions around technology in great detail:

1. How to future proof your business with operational technologies when there appears to be a new offering on the market every month?
2. Privacy is a real concern – consultant access to personal candidate and business information and keeping data in the cloud. When a vendor advises you of their security mechanisms, how you can validate this information and how you can conduct a compliance check?
3. What business intelligence tools you should be considering right now
4. The main areas of focus when considering a software change. The common factors that lead to project failures and critical success factors.
5. How to best protect your business during data migration phase on a software changeout.

Topic: Finding your way through the maze of finance options

Banks are becoming less favourable to the SME sector and Service Providers such as the Recruitment sector are struggling to find traditional funding lines to meet their requirements.

Find out what's new and what suits when it comes to choosing a funding option. Whether you have been in business for decades, starting a fast-growing recruitment or contracting business, or somewhere in between, we’ll share practical scenarios so you learn how to assess and address your funding needs.

Danny’s masterclass will include:
- options to close the gap in cashflow when running a temp or contractor business
- ideal methods for permanent recruiters to improve cashflow to help grow and cover overheads.

Topic: Less time, more wins - 6 ways to reduce the Tendering headache

This session will help Agencies identify, qualify and respond to the best tender and proposal opportunities for their current and aspirational capability.

Quick tools and techniques to improve both new business pursuits and growing/armouring current clients will be provided, covering reactive and proactive bidding.

Topic: Payroll outsourcing and maximising business value

As a co-founder of Oncore and ITG Partners, Grant brings in excess of 20 years’ experience in the recruitment industry and 30 years in the accounting profession. CPA qualified coupled with this practical experience, Grant has been exposed to the various issues facing businesses of all size in today’s ever changing environment.

In this masterclass session, Grant will review areas of business compliance that he has identified that expose those in the recruitment industry to unforeseen business risk, providing an insight to complexities of payroll management in the recruitment industry.

In addition, Grant will provide the key attributes a buyer will be looking for when acquiring a business and actions that can be taken to maximise your return when selling.

Topic: How to beat your fear and double your revenue using mental toughness

Paul is an accredited and experienced mental toughness coach who assists recruitment owners and leaders hire and develop high performance teams with the right mindset.

With a sold blue chip background in white collar recruitment as CEO with Michael Page and then Ambition, Paul built a robust ‘no dickheads no passengers’ culture.

After leaving Ambition, he established Mental Toughness Partners –a regional network of coaches who assist individuals and organizations to building resilience and mental toughness to improve their performance and wellbeing.

Ever had an inner fear that stops you realizing your full potential? Emotions, lack of confidence, feeling overwhelmed or burnt out, or fearing the consequences of being easily distracted?

Paul’s masterclass has a ‘no passenger’ flavour that will leave you in a positive mindset to put the wheels in motion immediately.

Paul will explain where your fear comes from and how to beat it.

He will give you the mindset, framework and routines to become mentally disciplined – which removes the emotion and makes you and your team methodical, consistent, reliable and ultimately successful.

After this masterclass, you will ‘have no fear’.

Topic: Good Work Safety Practices

Dianne is the Managing Director of Certex International and has been working in the recruitment industry for the last 13 years. A management consultant with over two decades of experience, specialising in change management, project management, performance improvement and quality management, Dianne has written a number of industry standards, including the Service Delivery Standard for RCSA in 2004

Dianne is a qualified lead auditor in the three of the most prominent ISO business standards and is recognised as a leading expert in recruitment best practice and compliance issues.

Most business owners across both Australia and New Zealand are aware of their responsibilities as PCBUs, and do work to provide a safe environment for their workers. We have visited hundreds of businesses on both sides of the Tasman, and have seen both sides of recruiter/host client safety practices. We have come across some terrific ways to manage safety that will differentiate your business to candidates and clients alike. Find out how to be a step ahead in good work safety practices.

Topic: The Leadership Dashboard - the direction to take your organisation

Craig Saphin is a CEO, Executive Director and Non-Executive Director with more than 30 years’ experience in Australia, Japan, and the broader APAC regions. Craig’s extensive experience within the global recruitment sector, including various CEO roles has seen him oversee startups, multiple M&As and turnarounds in the recruitment sector. His experience spans general management and board oversight of public companies and NPO organizations.

Previously Executive Director with en Japan Inc. and the CEO at en world Group in Japan, Australia and across Asia, today he is the Managing Director of “Craig Saphin Consulting” focusing on delivering tangible business benefits for companies that have a turnaround or growth plan in mind.

As a Certified Executive Coach, Craig’s masterclass revolves around ‘the leadership dashboard’.

Leading an organisation takes tremendous resilience, patience, and coping skills. The leadership dashboard will challenge founders and leaders to clearly and simply state their ideas about seven essential areas as they pertain to you on a personal basis and then as they are for the business as a whole.

Craig’s session will start a process that aims to help Agency owners and leaders get and stay grounded; the direction to take your organisation, why you should, and how.

Dates

Sydney, 9th May 2017

Brisbane, 12th May 2017

Melbourne, 18th May 2017