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"Lou Adler is a remarkable talent and pioneer in the world of hiring. I am proud to work with Lou at every opportunity, and I encourage any audience to spend quality time with Lou!"

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A well-known recruiting and hiring expert whose impact has been felt for over three decades, Lou Adler is a visionary and strategist who knows that hiring and retaining the very best people is the foundation for any great organization.

With a wealth of hands-on experience, Lou Adler shares his winning strategies and hiring knowledge during his dynamic and thought-provoking presentations. Through his real-world examples, interactive style and compelling Performance-based Hiring^sm system, Lou is able to captivate his audience and take them on a mental journey to hiring success. Around the globe, today's leading companies are demanding Lou to share his vision and passion for hiring top talent in today's highly competitive market.

Lou Adler is available to speak to your audience of key decision makers, business leaders and recruiting and hiring staff anywhere on the globe. His message is hard-hitting, practical and useful for anyone who wants to hire the best.

Speaker Topics:

The Official Rules for Hiring Top Talent

Hiring top talent is the only major business topic without any formal rules. It's comparable to playing a team sport where each player decides how he or she is going to play the game. According to Lou Adler if companies want to hire top people on a consistent basis recruiters, hiring managers and everyone on the hiring team needs to know and follow the rules. If you want to hire great people, the first rule is to offer great jobs. The most important sourcing rule is to emphasize opportunities over qualifications. To increase assessment accuracy a deliberative, evidence-based interviewing process, and of course, this requires a real scorecard. In this session Lou reviews The Official Rules and shows you how to select and coach the team.

Outrageous Sourcing – How to Find More Top Talent in a Tight Market

Stop following best practices. For one thing they're not the best, and even if they are the best, if everyone follows them they're bound to get worse. As far as Lou Adler's concerned if you want to see more top people you need to be outrageous, compelling and visible. Part of this is writing strong consumer-marketing oriented job postings that emphasize what's in it for the candidate in terms of learning, challenges and opportunities, rather than qualifications and experience. In this session Adler will discuss how to develop a segmented, multi-channel sourcing plan targeted based on how top people look for new work. If you want to see more top active candidates, increase the impact of your college and diversity efforts or find more passive candidates you need to become outrageous. What you'll really discover is that sourcing the best is about leading, not following.

The Second World War for Talent

We've already lost the first world war for talent, but history doesn't have to repeat itself. In this dynamic session Lou provides a worldwide take on the hunt for top talent and what you need to do to get a bigger market share. In this international tour Lou makes the case that the next war for talent will be won by those who are creative, outrageous, understand advanced consumer marketing are techno-savvy and are interested in converting traditional jobs into career opportunities. Whether your hunt for the best is geographical, generational or requires diversity in race, gender or religion you need to understand how the globalization of the workforce will affect your hiring programs for the next 10 ten years.

Is Performance-based Hiring the Answer to Hiring Top Talent?

Performance-based Hiring is now being used by large and small companies around the world, from the U.S. to Europe and from China to Australia. Is Performance-based Hiring a growing fad or the real solution for converting hiring top talent into a systematic business process? While Lou Adler makes an objective case in his book, Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007) that Performance-based Hiring could be the answer; it's not without executive commitment and line manager involvement. Hiring top talent is considered the true asset of any company, but few companies have put the concept into reality. Through case studies and practical examples Lou Adler guides you through Performance-based Hiring and what you need to do to make hiring top talent a strategic initiative.

Upcoming Speaking Venues

HRPA
October 13, 2009, Toronto, CAN
Recruiter Boot Camp - Live

Kennedy Information’s Interactive Seminar
October 14-15, 2009, Online
Presentation: Convert Your Corporate Recruiting Department into Headhunters

Recent Speaking Venues

HRPA
June 10, 2009, Toronto, CAN
Recruiter Boot Camp - Live

Kennedy Information’s Recruiting 2009 Conference and Expo
May 19-22, 2009, Las Vegas, NV
Presentation: Performance-based Hiring – A Business Process for Hiring Top Talent

ERE Expo - Spring 2009
March 30-April 1, 2008, San Diego, CA
Presentation: Developing a Sourcing Strategy for 2009, 2010, and Beyond

Lou Adler LIVE: Performance-based Hiringsm LIVE Tour 2009
Date/Location: 2009 Tour: Toronto, CAN, Washington D.C., Chicago, Houston
Presentation: Performance-based Hiring and Advanced Sourcing and Recruiting

OnRec Expo 2008
September 9 & 10, 2008, Chicago, IL
Presentation: Extreme Sourcing - How to Find More Top Talent in a Tight Market

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Diversity Conference & Exposition
October 27-29, 2008, Atlanta, GA
Presentation: Is Performance-Based Hiring the Answer to Hiring Top Diverse Talent?

ERE Expo - Spring 2008
March 31-April 2, 2008, San Diego, CA
Presentation: Talent Rules! - The Official Rules for Hiring Top Talent

VIEW
December 12 & 13, 2007, Online
Performance-based Hiring^sm

Kennedy Information's Recruiting Conference and Expo
November 12-14, 2007, Orlando, FL
Performance-based Hiring^sm

Recruiting Excellence 2007
October 9-10, 2007, Boston, MA
Performance-based Hiring^sm

Davidson Recruitment of Australia - Keynote by Lou Adler
September 4, 2007, Brisbane, Australia
Performance-based Hiring^sm

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
59th Annual Conference & Exposition
Date/Location: June 24-27, 2007 Las Vegas, NV
Presentation: Improving Corporate Recruiting Performance for Managers

Kennedy Information’s Interactive Seminar
August 23, 2007, Online
Passive Candidate Recruiting: Be First to Discover the Hidden Talent Market

Lou Adler LIVE: Performance-based Hiring^sm Tour 2007
Date/Location: 2007 Tour: Washington D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco/San Jose
Performance-based Hiring and Advanced Sourcing and Recruiting

ERE Expo - Spring 2007
April 17-19, 2007, San Diego, CA
The Best of Recruiter Boot Camp

Kennedy Information’s Recruiting 2007 Conference and Expo
November 12-14, 2006, Orlando, FL
Sourcing Rules! - Don’t Let Tactics Drive Strategy

Testimonials

"Your wonderful presentation was one of the highlights of the entire three day meeting. Your points on the hiring manager communications, the marketing approach, and sourcing all hit home with our team. You are the ultimate recruitment professional!!!! I look forward to reading your book."

"Your presentation on performance based hiring was enthusiastically received by our consortium members. You motivated each of us to rethink our current hiring processes and to seek potential employees who will fit into our organization's culture and have the potential to be top performers. What a refreshing slant on recruitment and selection."

"Your presentation on performance-based hiring motivated me to rethink the way I interview and select individuals for my organization's top positions. It enabled me to refine my interviewing and selection techniques and perceptions to ensure that the best people are hired for our organization."

"This is by far the BEST webinar I have ever attended!!! I would recommend this webinar to every single recruiter that wants to be a GREAT recruiter! I love listening to Lou speak, but this time he touched on a VERY important topic that all recruiters can strive to work on and often don't know where to start. My job is to recruit passive candidates – and that's done by cold calling & networking successfully. This seminar really allowed me to refresh my skills & thoughts when approaching these recruits. THIS WAS AWESOME!"

Schedule & Availability

Lou Adler is available to speak to your audience of key decision makers, business leaders and recruiting and hiring staff anywhere on the globe. There is a he high demand for Lou Adler training and personal speaking venues. To inquire about a specific date for your event or to get pricing or more information about Lou’s current availability, please contact Christina Ajam at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .