BLR's RecruitCon May 8-10, 2019 in Austin, Texas

BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- This hands-on, multi-track talent acquisition event will arm today's HR and recruiting professionals with proven strategies, processes, and technologies to beat out the competition for top talent.

To combat the challenge businesses are now facing to fill open positions quickly and efficiently in an increasingly competitive job market while decreasing costs attributed to lost productivity and recruiting-based advertising fees, BLR® Business & Legal Resources?the leading provider of employment compliance, recruiting, and training solutions and the publisher of the Recruiting Daily Advisor e-newsletter?will hold RecruitCon May 8-10, 2019, in Austin, Texas.

According to the National Federation of Independent Business, 45% of small businesses were unable to find qualified candidates to fill job openings in 2017, and 60% of all employers have job openings that stay vacant for 12 weeks or longer, which costs them $800,000 annually in lost productivity and advertising fees.

"A long, steady improvement in the economy is great for business, but it also means the job market is tighter than it's been in more than a decade. For a long time, recruiters had to find the high-value candidate amidst a flood of resumes competing for the same job. But now, recruiters must change their tactics as many employers are now competing with one another for a smaller number of job seekers. With the unemployment rate at its lowest mark in 50 years, candidates have far more power during the process than ever before. In fact, according to recent research, the current job market is 90% candidate driven. You don't pick talent anymore, talent picks you," says BLR Senior Editor Celeste Duke, SPHR. "RecruitCon 2019 will help attendees understand this shift and all that it entails, roll out their own improved recruiting processes, and discover better ways to improve candidate engagement and leverage their brand and social media to attract the best candidates."

RecruitCon 2019: The Nation's Leading Talent Acquisition Event is designed to be a premier experience for talent acquisition managers, HR directors, and others tasked with recruiting talent for their organizations. It will feature cutting-edge best practices to supercharge acquisition efforts, as well as new technologies for streamlining recruiting, and the latest analytics to support evidence-based talent decisions. It will bring together many of the nation's top recruiting experts to share their insights on how HR and recruiting professionals can improve time-to-fill and quality-of-hire ratios?often by implementing low-to-no cost strategies. And, over the course of three days, attendees will experience an all-new agenda across 2 tracks, in addition to having the opportunity to attend intensive preconference sourcing workshops, learning labs, dynamic keynotes, talent acquisition and workforce management vendor exhibitions, peer-to-peer focus groups, and networking opportunities.

Popular sessions for RecruitCon 2019 include:
May 8, 2019 | Preconference Sessions

• Today's Top Legal Risks in Sourcing, Recruiting, and Hiring: How to Avoid Liability Steming from Online Recruiting, ATS Algorithms and Protocols, and Other EEO-Related Traps
• Sourcing Lab: Proven Tactics to Reach and Attract Off-Radar Candidates

May 9, 2019 | Main Conference

• Candidate Communication Checklist: How to Ramp Up Engagement and Combat Counter Offers
• The Great Recruiting Race: How to Increase Quality of Hires by Decreasing Time-to-Fill
• The Essential Roadmap to Building a Social Media Recruiting Program
• And more

May 10, 2019 | Main Conference

• Employment Brand Blast-Off: How to Create a Real and Virtual Fanbase that Promotes Your Recruitment Goals, Your Company's Message, and Your Mission
• Hire by Audition: The Secret Weapon to Ensuring That Qualifications Translate from Paper to Performance
• And more

RecruitCon 2019 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Austin in Austin, Texas. Due to RecruitCon's growing popularity, BLR will also host an additional RecruitCon event in November 2019 in Nashville as part of its HR World experience, which will feature top-rated sessions from the spring 2019 event as well as a number of all-new hands-on sourcing and recruiting learning labs. For more information on attending or sponsoring the event, please visit live.blr.com/recruitcon.

About BLR®
BLR®?Business & Legal Resources helps U.S. businesses simplify compliance with state and federal legal requirements and helps them become more successful. It does this by offering authoritative content and practical, easy-to-use tools. Through their expert in-house editors and exclusive attorney network, the company provides the most comprehensive, reliable, state-specific information available?and does it in all 50 states. Its award-winning information products?including training programs, events, Web portals, reports, and subscription services?give businesses of all sizes and industries the best tools available at affordable prices. Connect with the organization at https://www.linkedin.com/company/blr.

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Kimberly St. Lawrence
Marketing Director | Events
BLR®?Business & Legal Resources
100 Winners Circle, Suite 300, Brentwood, TN 37027
P 800-727-5257, Ext. 3874
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