HR Happy Hour - Live from ERE Expo

The ERE Expo is a fantastic event in the corporate recruiting space, and I am really pleased to be a part of the program once again. Today and tomorrow I will be hosting the web livestream from the show in San Diego, California.  

The event itself is three days of workshops, keynotes, concurrent sessions, and great opportunities to network with industry leaders, as well as to meet with and learn more from many of the leading solution providers in the Recruiting technology and services space. This will be my third time doing the HR Happy Hour-style interviews live from the event, and it continues to be a fun and interesting program, and is a testament to ERE's commitment to make much of the conference content accessible to everyone, regardless if they are able to attend in person.

Starting today at approximately 8:00AM Pacific Time, you can tune in to the livestream directly from the link on the ERE.net home page.

Over the course of this Thursday and Friday, and ably accompanied by ERE's own Lance Haun, we will welcome a series of recruiting industry leaders, recruiting practitioners, and Expo speakers, (and more), to talk about recruiting, talent management, new technology, and beyond.  And of course this is all in addition to the live coverage of the event keynotes and featured sessions from the mainstage.

So if you are at all interested in the world of recruiting, the issues (and potential solutions), facing many of your industry peers today, and overall want to get the ERE Expo experience from the comfort of your office (or sofa), I hope you will tune in to some or all of the live cast over the next two days.

Many thanks to everyone at ERE for having the HR Happy Hour Show once again be a part of the event.

And if you are in San Diego this week make sure you come by the set and say hello!

Lucky and Grateful: Notes from ERE Expo

Today is the final day of the ERE Expo recruiting conference in beautiful Hollywood, Florida (the picture to the right is the view from my room at about 6:15 this morning), and I will be spending another day hosting the HR Happy Hour Live Show on the conference's web stream.  If you are interested at all in the recruiting/workplace/talent management space, you should try and tune in to the web stream today to catch not only some of the conversations we will be having with industry leaders and experts (Eric Winegardner from Monster.com, Heather Flynn from Nike, Ryan Healy from Brazen Careerist, to name just a few); but to also see and learn from the ERE keynote and general sessions.View from the 30th floor

One session, at about 9:15 AM, will be presented by United States Navy Commander Brent Phillips, about the Navy's recruiting strategies and approaches to engaging its community using social media and networking, as well as other more traditional techniques. I was fortunate to get a chance to meet and talk with Commander Phillips yesterday as part of the HR Happy Hour Live stream yesterday, and I can assure you based on the engaging and interesting conversation and preview of his session today that we had on the Happy Hour, that you will not want to miss the Commander's presentation.

Aside - I almost asked the Commander if we were far enough away from Cuba for him to be wearing the 'dress whites', but I thought the better of it.  Seriously though, the Commander was a super guest and genuinely nice guy, so I be he would have let me slide.

When you talk to men and women like the Commander that have made the decision to serve their country, and who often and unfailingly place themselves at personal risk to safeguard and protect their country and their fellow citizens you realize (at least I did), that their service and commitment is too rare and incredible to take for granted. Whether it is military servicemen and women, local police, firefighters, and other emergency responders, heck, even the dedicated people that teach in our children's schools and drive the school buses; their collective concern and dedication to something bigger and more important to themselves is something we just can't recognize as much as we should.

With the upcoming 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in just two days, we will see, hear, and think about these brave and noble men and women much more than we typically do. We will remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice on that day, and in the ensuing years, and we will honor those who continue to serve today.  I hope that we will continue to honor and support them long after this anniversary on Sunday has passed, and we have returned our focus to our own busy jobs, lives, and families.

I have had a fantastic couple of days here at the ERE Expo in Florida. The venue is wonderful. The people are welcoming, intelligent, and engaging. I've learned a lot.

I am really lucky to be able to be here. And I'm also grateful to everyone who works in service to our country and our communities that I'm able to stare out at the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean on an impossibly beautiful September morning.

This Week: Catch the HR Happy Hour Live From ERE Expo

This week I am at the ERE Expo in Hollywood, Florida to attend and host the event's live stream on the HR Happy Hour Live on Thursday September 8th, and Friday September 9th. The HR Happy Hour Show - Live from ERE Expo will be a fun and hopefully informative supplement to ERE's live session coverage from the event.

ERE has long been a leader in making conference content more accessible to community members that are not able to attend its events in person, by live streaming keynote speeches, general sessions, panel discussions, and more. The HR Happy Hour Live from ERE is another innovative idea and service supported by the team at ERE to make the virtual conference experience more informative and valuable.

So how does it all work and how can you catch the live stream from ERE Expo?

Here are the details from the HR Happy Hour - Live from ERE Expo home page:

To provide our virtual attendees a world class experience this year, we have once again teamed up with Steve Boese and his popular HR Happy Hour online radio show to do just that.

If you aren’t planning to be in South Florida for the Expo, we invite you to join the ERE Expo live stream for‘HR Happy Hour Live from ERE Expo’ with host Steve Boese as he welcomes conference speakers, recruiting industry leaders, and some special guests for discussion, commentary, and ‘web-only’ exclusive programming. The special live stream HR Happy Hour broadcast will give the viewer a ‘behind-the-scenes’ look into the ERE Expo, and will complement the numerous keynotes, sessions, and panels that will also be streamed live. The ‘HR Happy Hour live from ERE Expo’ stream kicks off on Thursday, September 8 at 8:30 a.m. ET and runs through the conclusion of ERE Expo on Friday, September 9 at 5:00 p.m. ET, so make sure to block your schedule for those days.

Some of the guests that will be featured on the live web stream over the next two days include Elaine Orler, Gerry Crispin, Linda Brenner, Jason Warner, and more to come. So once the conference kicks off tomorrow, Thursday September 8th, head over to the ERE site and click the 'live stream' link to get dialed in. And of cource you can follow the back channel conversations on Twitter - just follow hashtags #EREexpo and #HRHappyHour.

I hope you can spend some time catching up on all the happenings from ERE Expo, even if you can't be here in person enjoying the event (and the sunshine and the beach.).

Thanks again to my friends at ERE for asking the HR Happy Hour Show to be a part of their event. It should be a fantastic two days of information and education.

Live from ERE Expo

Today and tomorrow, I will be at the ERE Expo in San Diego hosting what we're calling 'HR Happy Hour - Live from ERE Expo'.

I will be hosting the event's live web stream, doing some previews and summaries of the day's sessions and themes, and also having some 'web exclusive' conversations and interviews with some of the leaders from ERE, event speakers, attendees, and HR/Recruiting industry experts.

You can get all the details about the live web stream here - we will kick off each day's coverage at about 8:15 PDT, and will broadcast throughout the day, supplementing the live streamed sessions from the event.

Some of the folks you will see/hear as part of the Live HR Happy Hour programming:

Thursday, March 24

Alex Douzet - TheLadders

Laurie Ruettimann - The Cynical Girl

Gerry Crispin - CareerXroads

Bill Inman - Emergent

China Gorman - CG Group

Friday, March 25

Eric Winegardner - Monster.com

Matt Brown - Work4Labs

Amy Wilson - Wilson Insight

And more special live stream guests to be added in the next two days at the show as well. We plan on taking some questions from the web stream chat box, as well as questions that come in from Twitter on the hash tag #EREexpo.

If you weren't able to make it to San Diego for the ERE Expo, then the live stream is the next best thing. Several sessions will be streamed, including the keynote speeches, and in between, you can catch the HR Happy Hour Live programming as well.

Many thanks to David Manaster and the entire team at ERE for including the HR Happy Hour in the ERE Expo event.