May 19th Annual Talent Acquisition Symposium Aligning the Stars to Navigate Todays Universe of Talent

Sponsorship Directory

Event Sponsor

Christine Johnson, Director Business Development [email protected] | (708) 606-0192

www.manpowergroupsolutions.com ManpowerGroup Solutions is a $20B leader in talent acquisition and workforce solutions with over 27,000 employees in 80 countries and 3500 offices. Our global HQ is located in Milwaukee, WI. For the 5th consecutive year Everest Group and Nelson Hall ranked us a leader and largest in RPO. We support enterprise, regional and local recruitment solutions. With over 3000 RPO resources and four Centers of Recruiting Excellence in US (Milwaukee), Philippines, Peru and Poland, we have the vast footprint and scalability to address your most pressing immediate or long-term hiring needs. Our RPO division was named a 2015 Candidate Experience Award (CandE) winner by the Talent Board this past October as rated by candidates on their hiring experience with us.

Pen Sponsor

Jack Downing, Managing Partner [email protected] (312) 348-1305 www.worldbridgepartners.com WorldBridge Partners is a global search firm dedicated to organizations that strive to attract high performance people. Our company was founded in 2002 and has since grown to over 100 associates serving 10 distinct industry sectors. We’re in the business of identifying, qualifying and delivering high impact players that drive corporate goals, consistently deliver on commitments and systematically increase corporate revenues. Lanyard Sponsor

Chris Hogan, VP Sales [email protected] | (815) 530-3131 www.avature.net Founded by Dimitri Boylan, co-founder and former CEO of HotJobs.com, Avature is a highly configurable enterprise SaaS platform for Talent Acquisition, Onboarding and Talent Management, and the leading provider of CRM technology for recruiting globally. Avature has 64 of the Fortune 500 as customers and is used in 67 countries and 14 languages.

Notebook Sponsor

Russell Esquivel, Vice President [email protected] | (602) 319-9777

www.pdnrecruits.com Professional Diversity Network exists for the purpose of connecting Diverse job seekers to employers who value and understand the business impact of recruiting a Diverse workforce. With 1.5M monthly Diverse job seekers, including 50+ partners such as NAACP, National Urban League, National Association of Professional Women, and Black Data Processor Association, Professional Diversity Network directly supports recruitment professional to find the talent they need to meet thier corporate Diversity goals.

Lunch Sponsor

Anthony Adorno Director, Consulting Services [email protected] | (866) 433-4276 x214 www.degarmo.com DeGarmo develops and distributes innovative talent assessment solutions to help clients maximize revenue growth, productivity, and workforce stability. Over the past 20 years, we’ve grown our proprietary assessment library to span competency, work style, culture fit, leadership and work tolerance domains. We’ve also developed technology that enables our clients to use assessment for more than 1,000 different jobs, across every industry, directly from our platform or through integrations with leading ATS providers. As an organization, we work to establish solid partnerships with each of our clients to provide the best experience possible. Through this collaboration we are able to respond to changing business needs and deliver the best value possible to our clients. Reception Sponsor

Matt Jones, Partner [email protected] | (312) 407-7663

www.harmer.com A 30 year old, Chicago based recruiting agency that provides clients with project-based IT consultants for critical, time-sensitive and technically specific engagements. We specialize in all aspects of technology, accounting and finance. Our highly skilled, professional associates have developed extensive networks within the business community making them among the most successful recruiters in the industry. We are a dynamic, growth-oriented organization with a history of successful, long-lasting relationships.

Exhibitors

Jon Jelinek, Managing Director [email protected] (312) 980-2840 www.advancedresources.com Advanced Resources does two different things: 1) They are talent acquisition experts and 2) offer workforce business solutions to organizations ranging from start-up to Fortune 500. They consult and partner with businesses to maximize their ROI when it comes to managing contingent workforce.

Matt Hogan, Account Executive [email protected] | (617) 391-0582

www.bullhorn.com Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in staffing business services industries. Its data capture and customer insight technology puts the most up- to-date and powerful information at users' fingertips to give them everything they need to win customers and keep them happy. Today, Bullhorn serves more than 10,000 clients and 350,000 users, and its software solutions are used by some of the world's most prominent staffing and services enterprises to help increase sales, improve service delivery, and streamline operations. Headquartered in Boston, the company has offices in St. Louis, London, and Sydney, with 500 employees globally. The company is founder-led and backed by Vista Equity Partners. Gina Sanderson, Business Development [email protected] | (312) 259-2764 www.halo.com/gina-sanderson HALO Branded Solutions has been an industry leader for over six decades by combining award-winning creativity, world-class customer service, and a guarantee of complete satisfaction. Gina Sanderson provides expertise in integrated marketing solutions that feature creative and cost-effective dimensional marketing products. We deliver global product sourcing and distribution, online and traditional marketing support, company stores and incentive programs, art services and design creation and warehousing and fulfillment services —all with exceptional speed to help drive the hectic pace of your promotional efforts.Promotional products are powerful marketing tools. They are useful, long-lasting and appreciated by the recipient. Put HALO’s creative expertise and product integrity to work for you on your next promotion. Over 40,000 clients nationwide trust HALO to share their brand vision with customers, employees and prospects. Make a lasting impression at a trade show, demonstrate support for a fundraiser and attract new clients. Whatever your objective, your HALO representative will work with you to power your brand —on-time, under budget, and beyond expectations—with every order.

Mike Vogel, Director of Sales, Agency Relations [email protected] | (312) 919-6171 www.indeed.com Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 180 million unique visitors per month. Indeed is available in more than 50 countries and 28 languages, covering 94% of global GDP. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. As the leading pay-for-performance recruitment advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands of companies. Founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, Indeed is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. Indeed has offices in Austin, Mountain View, New York and Stamford in the US, as well as offices in Dublin and London. For more information about Indeed, see our blog or contact us.

Joe Shaker, Jr., Vice President [email protected] | (708) 358-0364 www.shakeradvertising.com Celebrating 65 years of recruitment marketing expertise, Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications provides insight into the latest and most appropriate solutions for improving the candidate experience, attracting talent, articulating employer brand, and enhancing employee engagement. Rich Post [email protected] | (773) 342-5738 www.smashfly.com SmashFly’s award-winning Total Recruitment Marketing Platform enables talent acquisition teams to attract, engage, nurture and convert candidates into qualified applicants using a centralized management system that automates and measures recruiting strategies and programs. Customers use SmashFly to unite their previously disconnected recruiting tools into an integrated software platform for Job Marketing, Web Sourcing, Candidate Relationship Management (CRM), Talent Networks, mobile- responsive and SEO-optimized Career Sites, Employee Referrals, Social Recruiting and Recruiting Analytics. Used to target pre-applicants in the front-end of the talent acquisition process, SmashFly integrates with any applicant tracking system (ATS) to provide unparalleled, real-time analytics on the sources that produce the best hires for the organization. Learn more at smashfly.com and follow us on Twitter @SmashFly.

Jim O’Malley, Partner [email protected] | (312) 878-4104 www.talentrise.com TalentRISE provides tailored, high-touch consulting and recruitment solutions to meet an organization’s most pressing talent acquisition challenges. The firm’s core service offerings, delivered by a partner-led team of senior consultants and expert recruiters, include retained executive search to fill critical leadership roles; on-demand, project-based contract recruiting for scalable support of internal resources; and talent acquisition consulting to help formulate a roadmap for sustained competitive advantage.

John Fortino, Co-Founder / Sr. Managing Partner [email protected] | (630) 848-0888 www.velocityresourcegroup.com Velocity Resource Group is the Global leader in Candidate sourcing and Qualification services. For the last 15 years, Velocity has helped our clients identify interested candidates at all levels and most functions within companies in virtually any industry. Velocity Resource Group delivers quality candidates fast! Ron Yazzetti, Sr Sales Director [email protected] | (224) 856-5299 www.work4labs.com Work4 has been in business since 2010. Founded by Stephane Le Viet and a global leader in the social recruiting space. We work with top brands in global organizations such as Amazon, Facebook, Intel, Pepsi, Disney, Accenture and more.

Contributing Sponsor

Todd Humes, Director, Strategic Accounts [email protected] |(312) 994-6585 www.volt.com Volt Workforce Solutions (Volt) is a premier staffing and consulting firm, servicing clients through our international network of company-owned and operated servicing locations. Volt is the largest business unit of Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 1000 organization regarded as a leader in the talent acquisition and workforce management industry. Reliably delivering quality talent is our core competency, and as such, we specialize in providing a full-service spectrum of talent acquisition and management solutions: Contingent staffing, Contingent-to-hire staffing, Direct hire/professional placement, Payroll services/referred employees, Master vendor/vendor on premise solutions, Recruitment process outsourcing and Statement of work/project-based services.