Recruiting at Conferences

When you are trying to find scarce skills in the market, you have to innovate.  I am at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago (yes, I am home for a conference -- it is extremely nice).  It has been a good event thus far.  I was passing by the message board for conference attendees and I saw that one company posted a job opportunity.  I was taken a little aback, but when one thinks about it, it certainly makes sense.  It is a role where talent is scarce (Business Intelligence) and a conference where some of the best and brightest in the field are attending.  What better place to find scarce talent?  I am not recommending that everyone go to Gartner conferences as a recruiting exercise (there are other important reasons to go).  However, it does make sense to think outside of the box for your candidate sourcing strategies.

Comments

[bkutik]

Sorry, Jim, "out of the box" conference bulletin board recruiting? I know IHRIM's been doing it since I started attending in 1992. Certainly a good idea, though.

[Amit]

I came across something similar at an HR forum held around mid-February in India. Google used their sponsor status to advertise the vacancies.

This event had senior HR professionals as participants and they were surely surprised by this. The trends seems to be catching on.