#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: Clare Mulligan
Track – Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
Clare is an Organisational and Business Psychologist with 25 years experience with the UK and Irish financial services industry. She is the only psychologist in Ireland specialising in consulting on generational diversity and the impact of the demographic shift on current and future workplace trends. Focusing her research on Generation Y and the ageing population, Clare knows a thing or two about the social and cultural divides that can occur in a multi-generational workforce. At this year’s #truDublin unconference on May 27th, Clare asks what the implications of a generationally diverse workforce are on the organisation they work for and how these differences can be embraced.
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: Jennifer Kennedy
Track – Identifying Employment Branding Metrics & Finding Solutions
When she not out competing on one of her show horses, Jennifer is a practitioner turned provider who is privy to some amazing data from her roles as former Head of Recruitment for Paypal and her current role as Business Director at TMP Worldwide. At this year’s #truDublin unconference on May 27th, Jennifer is leading a track on what we like to think of as “the science bit”. Drawing on her sizable experience in the industry, she will take us through the science behind talent attraction and why it pays to have a strong employer brand when trying to entice talented people. It’s a free education, trust us!
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: John Dennehy
Track – Country Branding: Ireland, a Case Study
As someone who has been working in senior positions in both tech and media companies for 20 years, John is very aware that every employer looking to hire top tech or engineering talent in Ireland faces the same problem; there just aren’t enough people here. John, himself a tech entrepreneur and founder of social recruiting ATS provider Zartis, is the man behind several industry and government sponsored initiatives to brand Ireland to the world. In this case study discussion for #truDublin 2013, he talks about what’s working and how every employer can learn from the successes he has been involved in.
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: David Barrett
Track – Graduates: The Opinionated Generation or Generation Me? 
As a qualified Occupational Psychologist, David has extensive experience in managing commercial service / software teams with substantial revenue targets, direct advisory and human resources / organization development consulting in over 30 countries. With specialities including people assessment and development systems and internet based psychometric assessment tools, David knows a lot about people and how they think and is therefore perfectly informed to question the self-serving motives of today’s self-obsessed generation. Are our graduates really all me, me, me or are they just braver than other generations in demanding the resources they need in order to succeed? Along with Marina Morrissey of Sigmar (who has more graduate experience than you can shake a stick at), David will discuss both sides of the coin at this year’s #truDublin unconference on May 27th.
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: Rowan Manahan
Track – “I didn’t sign up for this shit” : How Disillusionment Starts at the Interview 
The job titles “Managing Director of Fortify Services” and “Outplacement & Career Management specialist” are bandied about when it comes to Rowan Manahan, but you can call him “The Career Guy”. When it comes to careers, Rowan is your man. With over 15 years experience in career planning and training with executives at all levels, Rowan has gained some of the best industry insights around into the world of recruiting. He’s also a damn good presenter and self confessed presentation skills demon! Combine this experience and these skills and what have you got? A fantastically well-researched argument as to why all recruiters are lying and why this results in disillusioned, disengaged and resentful employees at the year’s #truDublin Recruitment Unconference on May 27th.
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: Peter Cosgrove
Track – Computers are making us worse recruiters, not better! 
With 12 years Senior Management experience in the provision of recruitment and staffing solutions, what Peter doesn’t know about recruiting isn’t worth knowing! Peter, who runs CPL’s permanent recruitment business, is no stranger to Tru events having spoken at past Dublin and London unconferences and is back at this year’s event with a new question to ponder: Could you fill a job without using a computer? Has technology distracted us recruiters from our real task, i.e. relationship building, consulting and yes, I said it, sales? Find out on May 27th at #truDublin.
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: David Stott
Track – Social Recruiting: Limitless Possibilities, Limited Return!
David knows recruiters. From his days working for the world’s largest jobs board; Monster.com, to his current role as Regional Sales Manager for Bullhorn, one of the most popular SAAS based ATS solutions for agency recruiters, David lives, breathes and sleeps recruitment (the poor lad must be sick of us recruiters)! Social media has been heralded as the panacea for all our recruitment woes, but in his track for the year’s #truDublin unconference on May 27th, David argues that it can only do so much. The question is how much?
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: Padraic McMahon
Track – Bringing Sexy back (with data)! 
Padraic is LinkedIn’s resident online marketing specialist in EMEA. He consults with companies on how and why they should invest in their employer brand, ditching the fuzzy stuff for cold hard science! He is, after all, a self-confessed data junky which isn’t surprising considering his track title for this year’s #truDublin unconference on May 27th. Staying true to his musical roots (he’s a bone fide rockstar don’t you know), Padraic will be Bringing Sexy Back (with data)! with a track that will ensure you will never look at employer branding the same way again!
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#truDublin Track Leader Snapshot: Lisa-Mari Jones
Track – Are Recruitment Agencies Anti-Social?
Lisa was worked in the recruitment, training and technology sector for almost 20 years now and in that time has built up a rather strong professional reputation with the busiest hiring companies in the UK. In her day-to-day role, Lisa advises her clients on the most effective use of the web, technology and social media to improve how they recruit, their business processes and their bottom line. Her extensive skills and experience in this area means Lisa really has the authority to ask the question; Are Recruitment Agencies Anti-Social? In an industry driven by people surely it is possible for recruitment agencies to leverage the power of social media in the same way direct hiring agencies can? This is exactly the question Lisa will be posing when she joins us at this year’s #truDublin unconference event on May 27th.
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truDublin Schedule of Tracks just announced!
With just over a week to go, we’re thrilled to announce the (near) final track listing for this year’s truDublin. We’ve packed 22 tracks into this one day event and have trimmed it down to 45 minutes per track to keep everyone on their toes! Alongside old favorites like Culture, Employee Referrals and the Candidate Experience, we’re mixing it up this year with two case studies (Country Branding & Workforce Engagement), no less than 2 sessions on the Science of Recruitment Marketing (LinkedIn & TMP Worldwide), 2 Graduate tracks, a lesson in Google Marketing, 2 debates on how recruiters are losing their sales mojo and even a genuine former Irish rock star leading one of our most hotly anticipated tracks! Thanks to our fantastic sponsors, Social Talent (that’s us!), Sigmar Recruitment, The National College of Ireland, Monster, Bullhorn, Kelly OCG and StackOverflow, we’re providing attendees a with breakfast, lunch and drinks afterwards, all for only €49 per ticket. Of course, we couldn’t do any of it without our amazing track leaders to whom we are enormously grateful! Check out the line-up below!
If you haven’t got your tickets yet, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? You can get them here.
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