Education
Workshops
Smart competitors make professional development a priority. At Staffing World 2008, you'll learn from top trainers, industry experts, enterprising executives, and progressive business partners. Every member of your team, from rookie recruiter to seasoned executive, will find value in the nearly 40 workshops offered in these nine learning tracks:
Want to learn the best practices in the sectors you serve? Thinking about branching into a new niche? Attend the section sessions Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–12 noon. These workshops have been developed by the ASA membership section policy councils. And if you hold a Certified Staffing Professional™ or Technical Services Certified™ designation, you can earn continuing education hours by attending the workshops.
Download a grid of the workshops.
Knowledge Network
Staffing World attendees give high ratings to this roundtable session, which provides the opportunity for you to engage in targeted discussions with small groups of industry colleagues. The fast-paced, high-energy discussions at the Knowledge Network—now taking place on the very first day of Staffing World—set the stage for you to share insights and ideas, choosing a new topic every 40 minutes, a total of three times, in three topic areas:
- Sales and business development
- Recruiting, operations, and staff development
- Strategic issues for executives
You will be both teacher and student as you move from table to table to discuss topics such as these:
- Add direct hire revenue to your bottom line
- Attract and recruit quality sales and recruiting staff
- Be a great leader in the 21st century
- Beat your competition—increase margins and profits
- Benchmarks and metrics for staffing company operations
- Candidate interviews
- Certified diversity suppliers
- Conducting business internationally: pros and cons
- Corporate social responsibility: managing business processes to produce an overall positive effect on society
- E-mail marketing trends, issues, and best practices
- Generate more business: Ideas for growth
- Land that first appointment—reach any type of buyer
- Make clients stick to you like glue
- Marketing best practices
- Maximize your most important asset—your staff
- Network to partner with minority business and women business enterprises
- Powerful interview questions that produce results
- Professional services—selling to the top
- Recruiting internal staff
- Strategic selling: how to have sustained sales success for life
- Training your team
- Turn buyers into believers
- Workplace diversity: drive business growth, innovation, and success
Topics are preliminary and subject to change. A full list of topics will be available on site.
Volunteer to share your knowledge and experience with your peers by leading a roundtable discussion. Download submission guidelines (PDF 91 KB) and respond by Sept. 5.
"Everyone was very friendly and open to sharing their successes and frustrations. I came back to work full of ideas to share and implement at my company." —Rhiannon Nichols, CSP, the Sedona Group, Moline, IL
Earn Continuing Education Hours
At Staffing World 2008, you can earn more than half the CE hours required to maintain your Certified Staffing Professional and Technical Services Certified designations. To retain the CSP™ and TSC™ designations without retesting, you need 30 CE hours every three years. Six of those hours must be in employment law. The workshops, keynotes, and Knowledge Network are worth up to 15 hours, and an additional 2½ can be earned by attending the certification exam review session Tuesday, Oct. 21. If you attend the certification exam review session and the Staffing World workshops that offer legal CE hours, you can earn enough to satisfy your legal CE requirement.
Register by Sept. 12 and save up to $150.
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