Minneapolis Recruiting Roadshow Unconference Announced
Paul DeBettignies of Nerd Search deserves a lot of credit. He's been the driving force behind the creation and impending promotion of the first Recruiting Roadshow. John Sumser, the dean of the recruiting blogosphere, will be taking Recruiting.com on the road and Paul, Josh Kahn of Best Buy/Accenture, and I are thrilled to be the ringleaders who convinced him that Minneapolis was the place to start his tour.
So does Paul deserve a lot of credit for that? Nah. All in a day's work. What is really amazing is that he did all of that while working through some family health issues, an Internet Service Provider who took a month to move his access to his new office 500 feet down the hall, the grief caused by the thrashing inflicted upon the Minnesota Wild this spring by the Anaheim Ducks, and the generally pathetic state of Minnesota college sports.
Details for the Minneapolis Recruiting Roadshow Unconference will be announced within the next couple of weeks, but mark your calendars for the morning and early afternoon of Friday, July 20th so that you'll be at the Best Buy world headquarters in Richfield (suburb of Minneapolis), Minnesota. The unconference will be free (hence the "un"), sponsors are jumping on board, and we're looking forward to kicking off the Roadshow with dozens of recruiters and other human resource professionals who want to learn more from each other and less from so-called experts about issues such as generational gaps, web 2.0, corporate employment web site design, social networking, and why Best Buy employees often can't tell whether they're strolling the halls of their corporate campus or the concourse at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.
Steven,
I think I prefer “Cruise Coordinator”.
Yeah there has been some personal/business stuff going on but doing this event here in Minneapolis and helping out our local HR, recruiting, and search firm colleagues is worth it.
John has been very patient with us and I think he will be proud with the event.
You and Josh have been awesome to work with. Our Minneapolis blogging friends are all doing their part to make this a great event:
Job Dig: What Would Dad Say http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds, Diggings http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/
HotGigs: StaffingExchange http://hotgigs.typepad.com/staffingexchange/, HiringExchange http://hotgigs.typepad.com/hiringexchange/, ConsultantExchange http://hotgigs.typepad.com/consultantexchange/, HR Search Marketing http://hrsearchmarketing.blogspot.com/
Select Metrix: The Hire Sense http://www.selectmetrix.com/blogs/
You can pick on the Wild, you can take on the other sports teams, but leave my Golden Gophers alone. They will be just fine and yes, one day I will make it to a Rose Bowl. Hopefully while I am alive.
Paul a/k/a MN Headhunter has a great blog article about the Recruiting Roadshow at http://www.mnheadhunter.com/mh/2007/06/recruiting_road.html .