E-consultancy launches new event: 'Digital for HR professionals'
E-consultancy announce their first HR training event, 'Digital for HR professionals', February 13th, 2007.
The event will bring together experts from HR and Resource
Management, social media and legal professions to share their
insights, experience and views on how the growth of digital
channels, web 2.0 technologies and websites such as LinkedIn,
Facebook, YouTube and blogs impact recruitment, company internet
usage policies and staff learning and development.
The end of 2007 saw the total number of UK social networks users
grow to 25million* and staff, competitors and recruitment agencies
increasingly harnessing the power of social networks, blogs and
other forms of User Generated Content. But, 2007 was also the year
of a corporate backlash against social networks as many businesses
blocked work access to the likes of Facebook and MySpace and
disciplined staff for time-wasting.
The event will look at some of the legal and corporate issues for
businesses but also aims to provide HR professionals with useful
'social media' tools and tips to help with recruitment, internal
communications and corporate reputation building.
Expert speakers will include LinkedIn, the world's most
successful business professional social networking site, with 17
million users, and Schillings, a leading law
firm specialising in the reputation of individuals, corporate and
brands.
Craig Hanna, Training Director at E-consultancy, said: "HR
professionals are often tasked with sourcing digital staff training
and creating staff social media usage policies. Our experience is
that many HR staff use the Internet as consumers but need advice
about the digital industry and the impact that it has on their
business from a legal, recruitment and PR perspective is not being
offered to them as a specific audience."
"This event is specifically for HR professionals. We will be using
examples and case studies to demystify the terms and technology and
to help them make informed decisions about staff internet usage
policies, recruitment using web 2.0 tools and digital skills
training."
Key topics that will be covered at the event include:
• A whirlwind tour of the web and what all those words mean
• The questions to ask when buying digital training
• Beyond the CV: how social media can help identify potential
candidates and provide additional personal and professional
information
• Staff and corporate reputation management - understanding
potential HR issues when staff use Facebook, MySpace, YouTube,
blogs and forums
• Legal and ethical guidelines for you and your employees and the
advantages of creating a social media usage policy or
guidelines
• HR digital case studies
Training event URL:
http://www.e-consultancy.com/knowledge/events/1595/digital-for-hr-professionals.html