Recruitment Asia 2016 Singapore - Delegate Booklet

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Recruitment Asia 2016 Optimising Talent Acquisition Strategies to Attract & Retain

01-02 November • Singapore

CONTENTS

EDITOR’S NOTE

AGENDA

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SPEAKERS

SPONSORS, EXHIBITORS AND PARTNERS

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EDITOR’S NOTE Embrace disruption in talent acquisition Earlier this year, the Human Resources team was working on a special edition of the magazine, where HR’s finest minds at work agreed that HR directors and their teams needed to start sensing opportunities early and respond swiftly for the function to make a valuable contribution to business results.

You can also take your comments online by following us on Twitter @mag_HR where we will be posting live commentary from Recruitment Asia 2016 at #RA2016.

We hope you enjoy your time with us and we look forward to meeting you over these couple of days.

This call for agility resonated in how these HR directors see their future – “replacing operational aspects of HR by bots”; “immersing learners in ultra-realistic, virtual scenarios”; and “creating a live performance management platform that allows for instant feedback”, among some of the fascinating ideas.

But in no other responsibility of the HR team are we seeing more changes than in recruitment. It’s no secret that nearly half of employers in Asia (46%) are facing hiring difficulties. In Singapore, 51% of employers say it’s getting harder to fill jobs, according to a 2016 report.

In a market typically characterised by talent shortage and changing legislation, Recruitment Asia seeks to answer your questions and provide feasible solutions for you and your teams to take back home. Held for the fourth consecutive year, this year we re-introduce the conference to you in a new two-day format that ensures all your talent acquisition queries are addressed sufficiently.

Over the course of these two days, you can expect on-stage case studies and panel discussions to be supplemented with off-stage networking sessions. The idea is to enable you to optimise your time at the conference, so please feel free to raise questions for your fellow delegates and spark discussions that can carry forward beyond the close of the conference.

Aditi Sharma Kalra Regional editor Human Resources aditis@humanresourcesonline.net

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AGENDA – DAY 1 8:00am 9:00am 9:10am

Registration Opening remarks

Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor, Human Resources

Speed networking

THE FUTURE OF RECRUITMENT IN ASIA 9:20am

Leaders’ panel discussion: Local versus international talent – key considerations in recruitment and retention ● Meeting government regulations and requirements ● How to build a local pipeline ● What works better: buying externally or developing internally? ● Manpower optimisation in a global economic downturn ● Other key considerations and challenges in recruitment and retention Moderator: Brandon Lew, vice-president, human resources, T-Systems Panellists: ● Meghna Shukla, GM talent & OD Asia MEA, Fonterra Brands ● Rachel Fitton, head of talent acquisition, APAC, HP ● Adele Png, head of talent acquisition, ASEAN, Philips Electronics ● Freddie Chow, chief talent officer, APAC, Sanofi

10:10am

Keynote address: Adopting a strategic approach in recruiting talent ● Best practice approaches in identifying critical roles ● Developing EVPs within the organisation Speaker: Colin Beames, managing director, Advanced Workforce Strategies

10:50am

Morning break

SOURCING FOR THE RIGHT TALENT 11:20am

Graduate talent management – diverse programmes to attract candidates with the right qualities ● Creating an exciting career path to attract graduate talent ● Marketing your innovative graduate programmes effectively ● Managing your potential talent’s expectations of the organisation: the Millennials Speaker: Daniel Wasik, head of talent and outreach programme, Google

12:00pm

Case study: Designing a proactive candidate-sourcing strategy to attract the right talent ● Identifying the right talent that fits your business model and culture ● How to optimise your sourcing strategy to save more and be more cost-efficient ● Leveraging technology for more effective talent identification and assessment Speaker: Rachel Fitton, head of talent acquisition, APAC, HP

12:40pm

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Lunch

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AGENDA – DAY 1 COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP IN RECRUITMENT 1:40pm

Panel discussion: Fostering a successful partnership for effective recruitment ● Case examples on the scope of recruitment to be outsourced ● How to align candidate expectations to the employer and recruiters ● How to measure the success of a recruitment partnership Moderator: Colin Beames, managing director, Advanced Workforce Strategies Panellists: ● Jean-Michel Wu, chief talent officer, Asia Pacific, McCann Worldgroup ● Rachael Pogson, VP, global talent acquisition and HR central, Seagate ● Jay Chan, senior vice-president, talent acquisition, group human resources, United Overseas Bank

2:25pm

Taking your employer brand digital – through the candidate and employee life cycle ● How digital solutions can address the key attraction and engagement challenges ● Real examples of key candidate and employee touch-points Speakers: ● Neil Chowings, managing director, APAC, Work Group ● Rose Colledge, managing director, international, Work Group

3:10pm

Afternoon refreshments

EMPLOYER BRANDING 3:40pm

Learning the success story from Airbnb in developing a comprehensive employee experience that attracts talent ● Evolving the way to best support talent to grow and develop themselves within the organisation ● Building an attractive brand that attracts and recruits talent successfully Speaker: Ken Hoskin, head of APAC talent, Airbnb

4:20pm

Closing remarks

4:30pm

End of day 1

Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor, Human Resources

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AGENDA – DAY 2 8:00am

Registration

9:00am

Opening remarks

Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor, Human Resources

SELECTION EXCELLENCE 9:10am

Case study: Implementing a structured and top-notch selection process to identify best-fit ● Enhancing your overall selection strategy to identify and secure high-potential talent from limited talent pools ● Best practices in designing interview techniques via psychometric tests, assessment centres, role-plays, etc Speaker: Lyn Lee, global vice-president of human resources, Shell Business Operations

9:50am

Panel discussion: Best methodology for selecting, identifying and hiring the right candidate ● How to pursue an active selection process to acquire the right talent ● Upskilling an in-house recruitment team to recruit better ● Tools and techniques used per the roles, industries and seniorities ● How much potential does gamification have in the recruitment process?

Moderator: Joan Soong, head of global executive recruitment, Schneider Electric Panellists: ● Vandna Ramchandani, head of recruitment, philanthropy and engagement, Asia, Bloomberg L.P. ● Tiffany See, executive director, HR global commercial sales and enterprise solutions, Dell ● Teofilus Ponniah, HR director, regional office and regional head, transformation, DHL Supply Chain, Asia Pacific ● Eric Wong, head of talent acquisition, APAC, Fitbit

10:40am

Morning break

DIGITAL IN RECRUITMENT 11:10am

Redefining recruitment strategies using technology ● Leveraging the best social media and online tools for recruitment ● Calculating the return on digital tools on recruitment Speaker: Suzie Custerson, head of talent acquisition, Asia, Manulife

11:50am

Case study: Learning from Dell in leveraging technology in recruitment ● How Dell communicates with Millennials ● Insights into Dell’s recruitment path and how it developed a strategy ● What are Dell’s innovative social media outreach efforts to translate awareness to application? ● Dell’s use of social, mobile, email and referrals for Millennial recruitment Speaker: Tiffany See, executive director, HR global commercial sales and enterprise solutions, Dell

12:30pm

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Lunch

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AGENDA – DAY 2 ONBOARDING AND RETENTION 1:30pm

Implementing a comprehensive onboarding programme to maximise the candidate experience ● Engaging line managers to improve the onboarding experience of new employees ● Learning the key factors that drive the engagement of managers to help new hires during the onboarding process ● Techniques to ramp up productivity of new hires Speaker: Philip Steggals, managing director, Kadence International

2:10pm

Panel discussion: Best practices to retain top performers ● Developing internal talent for future leadership roles through effective career planning ● Measures of retention that work well in Asia Pacific ● How to keep talent motivated and excited to grow the business together Moderator: Satyakam Mishra, head of human resources, Bata Panellists: ● Cindy Dermawan, head of talent and learning management, diversity and inclusion, Citi ● Imre Vadasz, regional HR director, AMEA, Sony Electronics ● Tricia Duran, HR director, SEA, Unilever Asia

3:00pm

Afternoon refreshments

3:30pm

Case study: Learning from Cisco Systems in recruiting internally to keep talent ● Implementing a leadership and development programme as a retention strategy ● Creating cross functional programmes such as lateral hiring, job rotation, and more ● How to measure the short-term and long-term effectiveness of the programmes Speaker: Jon-paul Pritchard, head of executive talent acquisition, Cisco Systems

4:15pm

Closing remarks

4:30pm

End of Recruitment Asia 2016

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SPEAKERS

Colin Beames

Ken Hoskin

Satyakam Mishra

Managing director Advanced Workforce Strategies

Regional talent lead, APAC Airbnb

Head of human resources Bata

Colin Beames is a business-focused corporate psychologist who is based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a global thought leader and consultant in strategic workforce planning and human capital. He has more than 25 years of experience as an organisational development consultant across a wide variety of industries, with assignments in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, UK and South Africa. In 2013, he published Aligning Workforce and Business Strategies: Mobilising the 21st Century Workforce. Among other things, he has been instrumental in improving senior management retention from 85% to 99% at Thomson Reuters, which translated into global cost savings of nearly £10 million.

Ken Hoskin drives the talent initiatives in APAC which are part of the team’s efforts to create the “most loved place to work in the world”. As part of Airbnb’s APAC leadership team, he represents the interests of a diverse workforce across the region and aligns the talent strategy to the current business strategy so every employee is positioned to help grow and support the greater Airbnb community of hosts and guests. Concurrently, in this fast-paced world of the sharing economy, he helps to ensure the systems and programmes are in place so employees have the opportunities to continually develop themselves and their careers at Airbnb while maintaining a fantastic company culture across Asia Pacific.

Satyakam Mishra is the head of human resources at Bata. He is responsible for human resources for the local business unit, regional HQ and other business units.

He has more than 14 years of HR experience in strategic and operational in global organisations. He has diverse HR experience in HR consulting, manufacturing and software solutions in global retail companies in the Asia Pacific region. He holds a master’s degree in human resource management and industrial relations from the University of Lucknow.

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SPEAKERS

Vandna Ramchandani

Jon-paul Pritchard

Cindy Dermawan

Head of recruitment, philanthropy and engagement, Asia Bloomberg L.P.

Head of executive talent acquisition, APAC Cisco Systems

Head of talent and learning management, diversity and inclusion Citi

Vandna Ramchandani is the Asia head of recruitment, philanthropy and engagement at Bloomberg L.P. She is a dedicated human resource and financial services professional with more than 20 years of experience working in sales, customer support, data analysis, human resource and leadership roles across Asia. Before her current role, she was the global data manager for Asia Pacific and the Middle East, managing a cross-cultural team of more than 250 people.

She has been a member of the Singapore management committee since its inception in 2010 and was the chairperson for four years from 2011 to 2015. Based in Singapore, she oversees talent acquisition and management for Bloomberg throughout the region, devising and implementing a comprehensive strategy for recruiting at every level, from senior executives to fresh graduates.

Jon-paul Pritchard is the regional head of executive talent acquisition for Cisco Systems in APAC and leads this function across 12 countries. His career to date has included high-profile roles in both EMEA and APAC, which has taken him from executive search to board consulting and most recently internal executive talent and strategy. He is also in charge of the articulation and execution of the executive talent acquisition strategy for the region, leadership succession planning, people planning, governance structure for leadership talent initiatives and projects, and executive diversity and inclusion. He is also a regional HR partner for the strategy, planning and operations functions within the region and holds a master’s from INSEAD in clinical organisational psychology. Cisco’s regional business size is more than US$12 billion in sales with more 22,000 employees.

An HR professional with 15 years of experience specialising in talent management, learning and leadership development, Cindy Dermawan is the head of talent and learning management, diversity and inclusion for Citi Singapore. In this role, she provides leadership and strategy in the talent and learning space and leads the diversity and inclusion efforts. More specifically, she is responsible for talent management and succession planning at the country leadership level, professional and leadership development programmes for employees across all levels and the country agenda for diversity and inclusion. She started her career in the US as a performance development consultant at Walgreens and eventually as an instructional designer for RR Donnelley and Sons in Chicago, US. She holds a master of arts in organisational communications and a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

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Tiffany See

Teofilus Ponniah

Eric Wong

Meghna Shukla

Executive director, human resources, global commercial sales and enterprise solutions Dell

HR director, regional office and regional head, transformation DHL

Head of talent acquisition, APAC Fitbit

GM, talent and OD, APMEA Fonterra Brands

Tiffany See leads the human resources function for one of Dell’s global business units – commercial sales and enterprise solutions – in Asia Pacific and Japan. She has more than 20 years of experience in human resources in the information technology and healthcare industries. She has been with Dell for more than 15 years and has had the opportunity to fulfil country, regional and global HR leadership roles as well as live in Sydney, Penang and Singapore.

A key priority is creating a culture of inclusion which enables diverse talent to grow and thrive at Dell.

Teofilus Ponniah is the HR director for DHL’s supply chain’s regional office as well the regional head for transformation (space to lead). In this capacity, he partners with regional leaders to form and shape the direction of DHL in the APAC countries it operates in. In his capacity as the regional head for transformation (space to lead), he looks to simplify hierarchies and increase productivity. Prior to this, he held a multitude of HR leadership positions across Asia Pacific, which included stints in Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. He has presented various papers and conducted seminars on leadership across the region.

He is a qualified advocate and solicitor and has been admitted to the High Court of Malaya.

He spends his time looking at opportunities to cultivate and nurture passion in employees to enhance organisational growth. He is a firm believer that tech has a huge role to play in people management.

Eric Wong is the APAC head of talent acquisition for Fitbit. His experience spans the various human resource functions such as HR information systems, business partnering and talent management. His pragmatic, business-oriented mindset and out-of-the-box approach sets him apart from how HR is traditionally managed. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Management Development Institute of Singapore.

Meghna Shukla is GM talent and OD Asia Middle East Africa for Fonterra. Fonterra is New Zealand’s largest listed multinational dairy cooperative responsible for 30% of the world’s dairy exports with revenues of NZD 20 billion providing dairy nutrition to more than 100 countries through 20,000 employees worldwide.

She has driven through teams the global HR and business transformation agenda enabling near and long-term business growth ambitions across markets. She has experience in business expansion and start-ups, shared services and outsourcing, high growth business interventions and transformations, restructuring and change management.

Meghna has a particular interest in talent development practices of the future inclusive digital world. Organisations she has learned from and contributed to include Fonterra, Syngenta AG, General Electric, Baxter Healthcare, CH2MHill and Standard Chartered Bank.

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SPEAKERS

Daniel Wasik

Rachel Fitton

Philip Steggals

Head of talent and outreach programme Google

Head of talent acquisition, APAC HP

Managing director Kadence International

Daniel Wasik is the staffing leader for APAC at Google, based in Singapore since 2014.

He manages the campus and university outreach. He is also the recruiting and industry programmes leader for APAC. He is currently leading a team of 40-plus recruiters and university specialists. Before he joined Google, he was with Cisco. In his seven years of experience at Cisco, he was leading the recruitment strategy across all jobs functions within the organisation. He was also leading a team of recruiters, responsible for delivery across the APAC and EMEA region.

Rachel Fitton is the head of talent acquisition for APAC at HP, based in Singapore. She leads a high volume, multi-location talent acquisition and talent sourcing team of 40 across Asia Pacific, including India, as well as driving the complex, cross-functional key talent-related process improvement initiatives across the region. She is a member of HP’s global talent acquisition leadership team. She has more than 16 years of blended recruitment experience. She spent the first 11 years of her career working primarily in retained search and has spent the past five years working in-house. Her experience goes across continents, industries and organisations as well as the complexities of recruitment from hiring junior teams to searching for CEOs.

Philip Steggals has been with Kadence for more than 10 years. He previously worked in the UK office before moving to Singapore five years ago. He now heads up the regional Asian hub for Kadence. Equally experienced with quantitative and qualitative research methods, he has worked with some of the biggest brands in the region on some of their toughest and most strategic questions. He has spoken at multiple conferences and was instrumental in Kadence winning HR awards in 2015 and 2016. Kadence is a people business – its clients work with intelligent, innovative and passionate individuals so that together they can deliver the maximum impact from the research.

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SPEAKERS

Suzie Custerson

Jean-Michel Wu

Adele Png

Head of talent acquisition, Asia Manulife

Chief talent officer, Asia Pacific McCann Worldgroup

Head of talent acquisition, ASEAN Pacific Philips

Suzie Custerson is an experienced Asia Pacific HR leader with specialist knowledge across the areas of talent management, recruitment and resourcing, and regional HR shared services operations (employee relations, learning, HR operations and payroll). Her experience includes 13 years in the banking and financial services industry heading up various HR and talent acquisition functions largely at ANZ Banking Group and Credit Suisse. She joined Manulife almost three years ago as regional head of talent acquisition and is responsible for driving Asia’s talent acquisition function (teams in place across 10 countries) to deliver on Manulife’s global talent strategy and significant Asian growth plans. She holds a master’s degree in business strategy and innovation from Australia and a business degree from the UK.

Jean-Michel Wu is the APAC chief talent officer for McCann Worldgroup. He was previously with WPP. While managing the team in 2011, WPP won the inaugural Cannes Lions’ “Group Holding Company” of the year award, and then again in 2012, 2013 and 2014 with leading agencies, including Ogilvy, JWT, GroupM, Y&R Brands, Grey, H&K, BM, Kantar and TNS. He has more than 20 years of talent acquisition experience and increasing consulting and managerial responsibility within the human resource and executive search industries. He closed 2015 as Campaign Asia Pacific’s Regional Talent Management Team of the Year and was named Best In-House Recruitment Professional, silver award, at the Asia Recruitment Awards in 2016.

Adele Png has extensive regional HR experience across diverse industries such as healthcare, consumer, financial services, technology and industrial. She has successfully started up and built HR and talent acquisition functions for global multinational corporations. As Philips’ regional head of talent acquisition, she leads a team of seasoned talent acquisition professionals across 11 countries in ASEAN Pacific, including Korea, ANZ, Indochina and Indonesia, across all businesses. Before Philips, she was credited for starting up the Asia Pacific talent acquisition function at Visa and subsequently the graduate and intern programmes for the APAC and CEMEA regions. Apart from talent acquisition, she is also passionate about diversity, leadership, culture, campus and employer branding.

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SPEAKERS

Freddie Chow

Joan Soong

Rachael Pogson

Chief talent officer, Asia Pacific Sanofi

Head of global executive recruitment Schneider Electric

VP, global talent acquisition and HR central Seagate

Freddie Chow is the chief talent officer for Asia Pacific at Sanofi. He has more than 20 years of experience in human resource management and 24 years with the Sanofi Group. He has extensive HR management experience holding various leadership HR positions in manufacturing and commercial in the region. He moved to Shanghai in 2001 as head of HR for the China operations. In his 13 years in China, he made significant contributions, including the Sanofi -Aventis merger, starting Sanofi University and the China Talent Centre and a large scale-up of the sales force. In 2003, he was named China “HR Director of the Year” and in 2012, “15 People of 15 Years” in the China staff awards

by CCH. He has a master’s in human resource management from Rutgers University. He is also a certified compensation professional with WorldatWork and is currently a teaching faculty member in China and Singapore.

Joan Soong has more than 20 years of experience in executive recruitment spanning both the search industry and corporate recruitment. Today, she leads Schneider Electric’s global executive recruitment team, partnering with business and HR leaders to deliver end-to-end executive recruiting talent solutions. Her team engages in understanding business goals and priorities and delivering bespoke sourcing strategies, talent qualification and assessments to hire successful executives for Schneider Electric. She was previously the Asia Pacific executive recruitment director for Dell Global B.V. Before Dell, she worked in the human capital practice for Arthur Andersen Business Consulting where she managed HR consulting projects in addition to leading the Singapore executive search practice.

For the past two years, Rachael Pogson has led the talent acquisition and HR shared services function for Seagate globally. Talent acquisition includes interns to executive hiring, in-house, RPO and contingent workforce solutions. Although hiring is global, the main geographic focus is in the US, Mexico, UK, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. She has worked in Asia for more than 25 years, with 12 years in talent acquisition in leadership roles on both the client and vendor side (search and RPO).

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SPEAKERS

Imre Vadasz

Lyn Lee

Brandon Lew

Regional director, human resources, AMEA Sony Electronics

Global vice-president of human resources Shell Business Operations

Vice-president of human resources T-Systems

Imre Vadasz joined Sony AMEA in September 2012 to head the HR function of the Sony Electronics business across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Before that, he held several HR leadership positions at Sony in Central and Southeast Europe, at EDS/HP EMEA central region and at Mars Incorporated. During his 20 years in HR he has accomplished a large number of change initiatives in all areas of human resources.

These include building strong HR teams and regional HR platforms; designing endto-end European HR process inventories; establishing and running European HR shared services centres; developing and implementing remuneration strategies; leadership and talent development programmes; and organisation and culture change programmes. Previously, he worked in application development as well as in sales operations covering the areas of supply planning, customer service, trade marketing and activity management. He holds an MSc in system development from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary).

Lyn Lee joined Shell in 2002 as a human resources leader in its downstream business and has experience in organisation effectiveness, talent and learning and HR business partnering. Before joining Shell, she was a managing partner running the organisation development business in a management consultancy firm and also held other HR and consultancy roles in Asia and the US. As an HR leader in Shell, she has had global leadership roles in the areas of talent, learning and HR business partnering, leading HR and learning teams in the commercial businesses of trading, lubricants, bitumen and sulphur. In consulting, she has managed consultants in the Asia region and started up the assessment centre business at DDI.

Brandon Lew is the vice-president of HR at T-Systems Singapore and oversees the overall HR business operations as well as the business partnering for the organisation.

His key role in T-Systems focuses on strategic organisational development and critical HRD/HRM initiatives. Before that, he had been leading teams on developing and delivering HR and organisational development solutions.

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SPEAKERS

Tricia Duran

Jay Chan

Neil Chowings

Rose Colledge

HR director, SEA Unilever Asia

Senior vice-president, talent acquisition, group human resources United Overseas Bank

Managing director, APAC Work Group

Managing director, international Work Group

Tricia Duran’s career spans five countries across local, regional and global roles in the Philippines (her home), Australia, the UK, Thailand and Singapore. Her first global HR experience was in London, as HR manager for Unilever Best Foods® where she managed the HR aspects of Unilever’s biggest business acquisition, Best Foods®. She then went on to become the global HR director for the home and personal care business of Unilever, where she led the business through one of Unilever’s biggest business transformations – the creation of Unilever’s global marketing organisation. Following this successful transformation, she moved to Thailand as the HR director for the Asia, Africa, Middle East and Turkey marketing organisation, setting it up from scratch and leading the talent, organisation and capability building agenda for the business. She doubles as the overall HR director for Unilever Asia and the HR director for executive functions in the ASEAN region.

Jay Chan is the senior vicepresident of talent acquisition at United Overseas Bank. He worked in recruitment for more than 15 years – starting his career in search firms and subsequently in-house recruiter roles. He currently leads talent acquisition at UOB. He is passionate about recruitment, and also in using technology and innovation to drive recruitment into the future.

Starting his career in change management consulting, Neil Chowings moved into the marketing and communication sector and has been delivering research, branding and marketing solutions for more than 20 years across Europe, the US and more lately Asia Pacific.

Working with organisations such as Coca-Cola, Swire, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas, he believes that for employers to attract and retain talent they need to be just as committed to building relationships with their people as they are with their customers.

Rose Colledge has advised some of the world’s leading companies on their talent engagement strategies. Having started her career as a recruitment advisor in London, she became one of the founding team that set up Work Group in 2001, a specialist employment marketing and resourcing business. She led the development of the firm’s international operations and went on to open offices in New York (2007) and Hong Kong (2008), where she is now based.

In addition to her corporate responsibilities, she has had a hands-on role in supporting organisations such as Accenture, Barclays, BP, J.P. Morgan and Linklaters to develop their employer brands.

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Lighthouse Events, the events management division of Lighthouse Independent Media, has been bringing Lighthouse’s conferences, awards shows and internal meetings to life since 2006 - over 40 events annually in multiple formats through numerous markets across Asia. Staffed by a team of experienced and dedicated event professionals, Lighthouse Events is commited to understanding and delivering its clients’ strategic objectives. Lighthouse Events has the expertise and experience to conceptualise and manage any customised event, making sure its clients’goals are met on every occasion.

Call us if you need a partner for: • Venue Sourcing • Branding & Graphic Design • Supplier Management

• Registration Services • Event Conceptualisation

• Destination Management • Event Production/Logistics Support

Contact us with your event brief today.

R E C RU I T ME N T A S I A 2016

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