Experts Connection™ for Recruiters connects you, the hiring professional, with experts in all phases of recruitment at the $100K+ level. Topics will be presented for timely practical application (rather than theoretical discussions), offering you the ability to implement the ideas as soon as you hang up the phone. The subject matter is designed for both corporate hiring professionals as well as independent recruiters. Topics will include a wide variety of timely issues relating to the employment of managers and executives across all disciplines and industries. The teleseminars are formatted to include your questions submitted at the time of registration as well as during the presentation.

Guest Speaker: James Durbin, Headhunter specializing in Social Media & owner of Durbin Media Group.
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM Eastern, 1:00-2:30 PM Pacific

Class Description: Facebook is the largest social network on the planet. In the last six months, changes to the structure and search functions now gives recruiters a fantastic new tool for sourcing and connecting with candidates. Prior to these updates, Facebook was difficult to navigate and unwieldy to use as a recruiting tool. It functioned best as a communications tool. That is all changing. Facebook is now a useful and complete recruiting tool.

Sit down with Jim Durbin, the Social Media Headhunter, for a 90 minute seminar on how Facebook can now be added to your recruiting toolbox.

In this 90 minute teleseminar you will learn:

• Successful strategies for sourcing passive candidates.
• Tactics that leverage your current talent pool to help you find and connect with new prospects.
• Effective communication approaches that yield higher response rates to your initial contact.
• Powerful marketing and branding techniques to attract top candidates and support your employment brand.
• An overview for managers on how to manage Facebook use among your employees.
• Inside information on how Facebook is altering the internet marketing world (a must-see for technology and marketing recruiters).

About the Speaker:

Jim Durbin is a headhunter specializing in social media and owner of the Durbin Media Group. As a blogger and business owner, Jim is a frequent and valued speaker on such topics as online employment, recruiting blogs and using social networks in the hiring process. Prior to starting Durbin Media Group, Jim was a top performer as an Account Executive for national staffing firms, entering the employment world in Los Angeles in 1999, at the peak of the dotcom boom. Jim is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and currently lives in St. Louis.