Leaving for Enterprise Rent-A-Car Annual HR Conference
Mike Palmquist, our National Account Executive, and I fly later today to San Diego for the 2007 annual Enterprise Rent-A-Car human resource conference. All 700 or so of their global HR folks come together each year to learn from each other and from a small number of third parties. CollegeRecruiter.com has been blessed to have Enterprise as a client for years and we look forward to working and enhancing our relationship with them for years to come.
This year's conference promises to deliver much of the same as last year's in Atlanta but also some differences. Their hiring metrics last year were staggering: about 220,000 applications from college students and recent graduates turned into 70,000 interviews and 7,000 hires. This year, they're planning to hire 8,000 college students and recent graduates. Amazing.
Different for this year for me will be my personal participation. Although I attended last year's conference and will again this year, I'll have the pleasure this year of also being one of the presenters. I'll be giving most of their roughly 200 recruiters a whirlwind tour of how they can and should to use new media for recruitment purposes. We'll talk about blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networking, virtual worlds, video, and much, much more. Three sessions, each of which will run for about 75 minutes. It promises to be a lot of fun but also exhausting.
If you're in the San Diego airport early tomorrow evening and see a 41 year old exhausted man struggling to keep himself awake so that he can board his flight back to Minneapolis, that will be me.
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