Talent Acquisition Live

Watch the Talent Acquisition Live 2018 after movie

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:07:42 +0000

We look back on a very successful first edition of the international event on innovative recruitment: Talent Acquisition Live. More than 150 visitors were inspired by 4 keynotes and 20 breakouts. Do you want to relive the day again or did you miss it? Check out the official after movie.

Tips for getting your hotel for Talent Acquisition Live

Erwin Hokken — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:14:34 +0000

Coming to Talent Acquisition Live and the pre-event The Talent Unconference and still looking for a hotel in Amsterdam? In this article we will help you with your search.

Near location De Nieuwe Liefde

At the 20th of September, Talent Acquisition Live will be at De Nieuwe Liefde in Amsterdam. Near this location, there are only a few available hotels under 150 euros, like Hotel de Hallen, Cityhub Amsterdam, Amadi Parkhotel and Grand Hotel Downtown Amsterdam.

You can find a full list of available hotels near De Nieuwe Liefde here.

Amsterdam Sloterdijk

Another great option for a hotel is in Amsterdam Sloterdijk. This part of Amsterdam has a direct train to and from Schiphol. De Nieuwe Liefde is also easy to reach from Amsterdam Sloterdijk via tram 12. There are plenty of options for a good hotel under 150 euros, like Urban Lodge Hotel, XO Hotels Park West, Mercure Hotel Amsterdam Sloterdijk Station and MEININGER Hotel Amsterdam City West.

You can find a full list of available hotels in Amsterdam Sloterdijk here.

Amsterdam-Centrum

You can also look for a hotel in Amsterdam-Centrum. A few options under 150 euros are Hotel Not Hotel, Rembrandt Square Hotel, XO Hotels City Centre, Hotel ibis Amsterdam Centre Stopera and Ecomama.

You can find a full list of available hotels in Amsterdam-Centrum here.

WeAreKeen and ODYN are the winners of the Start-Up Competition

Erwin Hokken — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:36:22 +0000

WeAreKeen and ODYN are the two winners of the Start-Up Competition of Talent Acquisition Live. These two organizations, chosen by the public, will be present at the event as partners.

Thrilling competition

With almost three hundred votes and a thrilling competition, WeAreKeen and ODYN ended up winning by popular vote. They’ve won a free sponsor package at Talent Acquisition Live and will be present as a partner at the event on the 20th of September. They will also have a client-case, in which a client of the organisation will tell about the work of the winning Start-Up. The other contesters were Duckflow, Joboti, Tigris, Equalture, InteriMarket and Peoplecamp.

About WeAreKeen

WeAreKeen provides tech & digital recruiters to in-house recruitment teams on a flexible basis. They do this for scale-ups and large tech corporations. Today’s market is all about the candidate, that’s why they focus relentlessly on the development of our candidates. WeAreKeen does this via their ‘Tech Recruitment Apprenticeship’ based on ‘10 Recruitment Building Blocks’.

About ODYN

ODYN is creating the world’s first blockchain powered talent community. They are working on a new set of fun and gamified tools. AI and smart search algorithms will help people find the right career path. ODYN’s ultimate goal is fulfilled when everyone can do work that they enjoy, that fits their personality, their talent and their ambitions.

Register for TA Live 2018

4 keynotes and 16 breakouts on innovation in recruitment. From strategy and process till tooling. With cases and insights from Bill Boorman, Booking.com, Albert Heijn, Cognizant and many more. More info can be found here.

This is the program of the pre-event: The Talent Unconference

Erwin Hokken — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:42:27 +0000

The day before Talent Acquisition Live we have a pre-event: The Talent Unconference. It’s all about sharing thoughts and ideas on talent with likeminded people. No presentations, no Power Points, only discussions and dialogues.

Tracks

Talent is a broad topic and so this Unconference will cover a wide range of topics. From the Gig Economy and the International (freelance) Labour market to the best recruitment technology for sourcing and referral hiring. From not making your AI biassed to creating a thriving culture in a company. We are proud to present to you the tracks and the trackleaders:

Ticket

So if you are visiting TA-Live, come a day early and visit The Talent Unconference the day before. You can get your ticket here. Entrance is by donation. You can pay what you want, all the money that we get is put directly into bites served during drinks. We are proud that much of the cost is covered by our helpful sponsors: Brainnet, Textkernel and Vonq.

Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald: “Voice will make the work of recruiters more efficient”

Erwin Hokken — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:28:28 +0000

A bot that screens candidates or calls them to schedule a job application. Voice can make the work of recruiters easier and more efficient, says Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald of Open Voice and speaker at Talent Acquisition Live on 20 September.

The big three

Voice seems far away, but with Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant we already use it today. But we are only at the beginning and a lot is going to change. So far there are three major parties. Google (with Google Home and Google Assistant) and Apple (with Siri) are the best known. But there is also Alexa from Amazon. This is the third largest and already has more than 12,000 employees on voice, more than what Google and Apple have together in this.

Why do recruiters need to start with voice?

“Voice will definitely break through”, says Lens-Fitzgerald. “It works much more efficiently: you no longer have to type and don’t have to stare at a screen all the time. The opportunities for recruiters are also enormous. Consider, for example, the screening of applicants. After a job application, the candidate is automatically called by a robot instead of a recruiter. These can communicate through voice. This not only saves time, but due to the digital intelligence the robot also quickly gets an idea of what type of candidate it has to deal with. Questions can be asked specifically for that person and you get a more relevant conversation. Even though it is a robot, it becomes more personal. And for recruiters it saves all those resumes read. “

Target group-oriented approach

You can also approach different types of candidates with voice differently. For example, if you want to appeal to programmers, you can tailor a Google Voice campaign accordingly. The voice robot knows how to approach programmers and know their ‘style’ of communicating. This can be very personal. For example, look at the ads on Facebook or Google. Everyone gets something different to see. That will also happen later when someone says ‘Is there a job for me?’.

Voice branding

Companies also have to think about the branding via voice. “Has anyone thought about how you convey your message and your desired image in a voice? If you want to give a certain feeling or value, it is essential to think about this”, says Lens-Fitzgerald.

How far is voice currently in the Netherlands?

A bit like the smartphone was in 1998. On YouTube there is a video in which Frans Bromet asks people in the street in 1998 whether they have a mobile phone. They all looked at him crazy, they did not have it and should not even think about being accessible. That is now also a bit the same with voice. But you see where the mobile is now, remember that for voice in a few years.

What is your message during Talent Acquisition Live?

Lens-Fitzgerald: “Just think that in 10 years at least 20 percent of your communication in recruitment will be via voice. Jobseekers mainly listen to companies. Online advertisements may no longer exist, you have to reach them via your voice. We do not yet know exactly what that means, we all have to figure this out. You have to start now”, says Lens-Fitzgerald. “If you start first, you will have the most experience later. If you wait with it, you might end up like Blokker or V&D.”

Talent Acquisition Live: September 20 in Amsterdam

Do you want to know how companies like Booking.com, Cognizant, Albert Heijn, STRV, Bonnier Broadcasting and Specsavers are innovative in the way they attract talent? Join 150 talent acquisition professionals at the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live the 20^th of September 2018 in Amsterdam. Subjects you can expect are: augmented sourcing, interviews via voice bots, humanising the hiring journey, mega sourcing, automated talent pipelines, referral hiring and much more innovative talent acquisition. And with expert speakers like Tru’s Bill Boorman, Bas van de Haterd, Sara Cauwenbergh and Karen Azulai.

Join Talent Acquisition Live on the 20th of September in Amsterdam

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:44:13 +0000

Watch the video

We made a promo video for the event, watch it below. Do you want to join us? Register now at this site.

‘Recruiters should embrace chatbots, but don’t give up control’

Erwin Hokken — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:50:40 +0000

Chatbots can dramatically influence the way recruitment is done, claims Matej Matolin, Head of HR at STRV and speaker at Talent Acquisition Live 2018.

Recruitment chatbot

With his company STRV he partnered with Jobpal, a recruitment chatbot company. This chatbot can be deployed almost instantly, but Matolin warns that you aren’t done yet: the chatbot still needs to learn a lot of information from you. Especially at the beginning, the bot usually needs help with every second question. But the more the bot is used, its accuracy increases and can answer up to 75% of all questions. The monthly statistics keeps STRV updated about the bot’s usage and let them see every single conversation in the messenger window.

The clear advantage of the bot is that people can contact him anytime (24/7) and can re-engage in a previous conversation. The bot is fot Matolin a pretty great addition to the current communication channels when it comes to the company and the recruitment team.

Don’t give up control

Matolin states that chatbots are still too primitive to replace human conversation, but they’re pretty efficient to use for the transactional part of the job. It’s important that recruiters realize they don’t have to give up control of their recruitment process: they still take the key decisions and do, for example, the interviews. But why not let the chatbot do the administrative and transactional stuff?

Key learnings

Matej Matolin describes the following key learning points if you plan to go ahead with chatbots:

Don’t focus mainly on technical expertise, look for vendors with relevant experience in making recruitment chatbots;
Take your time. The complexity of the bot determines how much time the employer needs to spend to get it working like you want it to work;
Involve a professional for the copywriting;
Focus on marketing, so use the chatbots to increase the candidate experience;
And last but not least: don’t expect miracles. Chatbots are new and need to (and will) be developed over time.

Breakout: Chatbots for recruitment

In his breakout at Talent Acquisition Live in Amsterdam at the 20^th of September, Matolin will talk about this key learnings and more. He will share the challenges their clients face when implementing chatbots and also the learnings they had. Most importantly: Matolin will share where the technology is today, what’s possible and what to watch out for. More about the breakout (and the rest of the program) can be found here.

About Matej Matolin

Matej Matolin is an HR evangelist, recruiter, manager, and advisor. He runs the most visited Recruitment blog in the Czech republic, organizes Recruitment MeetUps, contributes to leading newspapers and speaks at conferences.

Register for TA Live 2018

Pre-event on the 19th of September: The Talent Unconference

Erwin Hokken — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:15:59 +0000

Before Talent Acquisition Live, at the 19th of September, there will be a pre-event: The Talent Unconference. With open discussions and interacting with fellow HR & Talent (acquisition) professionals.

The Talent Unconference

Talent Acquisition Live will be at the 20th of September, the day after the pre-event: The Talent Unconference. An event without badges, keynotes and powerpoints, but with small interactive sessions about how to attract and retain the right people. The Talent Unconference is organized in cooperation with Bill Boorman’s The Recruitment Unconference (TRU).

Topics

All topics on talent are open for discussion. Talent Acquisition, Onboarding talent, Talent development, The future of the labour market, Flexible working, Robotics, Ethics on talent, Labour market discrimination, AI in talent and whatever you would like to start a discussion about.

Ticket

You can get your ticket here. Entrance is by donation. Tickets cover costs for location, dinner, drinks and snacks. We are proud that much of the cost is covered by our Helpful sponsors: Brainnet, Textkernel and Vonq.

Don’t forget to vote: the Start-Up Competition is extremely thrilling

Erwin Hokken — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:56:32 +0000

With about two hundred votes already, it’s pretty thrilling at the Start-Up Competition of Talent Acquisition Live. The upper four are really close together and everything is still possible until voting ends on the 31th of August.

Start-Up Competition

The competition serves very different parts of the recruitment landscape. Two of them will get a free sponsor package at Talent Acquisition Live by popular vote. Voters are eligible to win one of three free tickets. At the 20th of September 2018 Digitaal-Werven and Werf& organize the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live in Amsterdam, you can find more about the program here.

Nominated startups

There are 8 start-ups to vote on. Bellow this information you can vote!

Duckflow
Duckflow is a professional community where employers recommend applicants-candidates, in order to have extra business income.
Equalture
Equalture is a blind, AI-matching technology, designed to make outstanding hiring decisions while eliminating unconscious bias.
InteriMarket
An AI-driven platform that drives predictive analytics and outcomes designed to increase the bottom line, talent availability & transparency.
Joboti
We build chatbots for Recruitment. Imagine a virtual Recruiter who can act as the first-line for Q&A and assists with the interview scheduling.
ODYN
ODYN is creating the world’s first blockchain powered talent community. We are working on a new set of fun and gamified tools.
Peoplecamp
Peoplecamp is a social media marketing and lead nurturing automation software. It enables users to effectively grow social media networks.
Tigris
The best flexplatform designed on the most powerful CRM-system: Salesforce. One solution for jobmarketing, recruitment and operations.
WeAreKeen
We provide tech & digital recruiters to in-house recruitment teams on a flexible basis.

Want to know more about the organizations? Click here.

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Go to TA Live with your whole team for a reduced price

admin — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:03:59 +0000

Until the 1st of August you profit from a big discount when you come to Talent Acquisition Live 2018 with your team!

Register

Until the 1st of August the price per ticket is €295,- per person (instead of €395,-) if you come with your team. Discount is calculated automatically upon registration of at least 3 people at once. Discount only applies when you register at the same time. Check our website for more information and to register!

Talent Acquisition Live

The 20th of September 2018 Digitaal-Werven and Werf& organize the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live in Amsterdam. A new european event about innovation in recruitment from strategy and process to tooling. If you want to know more about the 4 amazing keynotes, click here.