Hello everyone! Welcome to the new ERE Expo blog!

Right now, we are hard at work producing the largest ERE Expo ever! As I look out at my schedule over the next few weeks, myself and the ERE Expo team are spending time with each and every ERE Expo presenter. We have scheduled these meetings to have the opportunity to chat with each person about what the ERE Expo audience demographics are, to share with them some background data on what our audience expects and looks for (this is based on years of reviewing the data from our past ERE Expo attendee evaluations as well as what we hear in the marketplace), and to review and learn more about their content.

The content of the presentations that our presenters will make have already been discussed months ago, but now we actually get an opportunity to review their slides and content prior to the conference. I must say, that I am very excited about what I have seen so far, and I will be continuing to provide more information over the next few weeks about what we learn from the presenters and what you can expect to see at the conference.

There are so many conference sessions, that some may be more appropriate than others for the varying needs of our attendees. Because of this, Ill make sure I keep you posted on our conversations with our presenters and Ill let you know which sessions may be best for some and not for others.

A bit about my presentation, “The Recruiters Guide to Navigating Corporate Politics”: I have been working on putting the finishing touches to this presentation which I have been working on for almost 5 years. Its based on my own experiences of working as a corporate recruiter and later as a corporate recruiting leader inside of organizations. I will share some very specific stories from my own experience on what really has been successful in navigating corporate politics, and some that, well… were failures, and you’ll be able to learn from my misteps and goofs.

In addition, throughout my travels around the world in my consulting practice, I spend a lot of time with corporate recruiting professionals and business leaders. I have gathered quite a bit of content from my interactions with hundreds of people on whats working and whats not working in navigating corporate politics from a recruiting perspective. I am very excited to share my findings with you.

I have already received dozens of emails from many ERE members who have said that they are excited about coming to San Diego for my presentation because they feel that they need to do better in managing through some of the political landscape more than any other skill. I hope to be able to meet your expectations. To those of you who are reading this blog whom I have already talked to about my research, thanks in advance for participating and sharing your (sometimes hilarious) stories with me, so I can share them with our ERE Expo audience.

There are so many other great presentations and exhibitors coming to San Diego, not to mention all of the great attendees and networking…Ill try to keep you posted on whats ahead and things to look out for. In the meantime, please keep visiting our ERE Expo blog to engage with the entire ERE Expo community. See you soon in San Diego!