With extensive experience across Talent Acquisition and HR, Scott joined ANZ in 2008 and is currently ANZ’s Head of Recruitment & Resourcing for Australia & New Zealand.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Scott emigrated to Australia in 2005, continuing his passion of working with leading global organisations to design, implement and manage contemporary recruitment models and deliver market-leading Talent Management solutions.
Prior to joining ANZ, Scott led the Executive Recruitment Function at the Coles Group managing a team recruiting across a number of iconic Australian brands such as Target, Kmart, Coles, Officeworks, First Choice and Liquorland.
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Opening remarks from the chair
Integrating a social strategy: Building a business case for social media
Brie Macklin is the Employment Brand Manager for Telstra and is responsible for developing Telstra’s new employment brand, sourcing strategies, brand promotion activities, social media and digital strategies. Her role allows her to undertake significant research with the workforce to understand what’s important to people in a career and why Telstra is a great place to work.
Brie’s history includes experience as a Marketing Manager for local and UK-based recruitment companies, events management, merchandising and video production, and a strong affiliation with global recruitment marketing, having even hosted Recruitment Marketing Awards in the UK. More recently Brie spent a number of years at Adcorp, a leading employment advertising agency where she worked with a number of large Australian organisations on employment brand development, research, EVP and employment advertising campaigns.
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The role of social media in your employment brand strategy
Determining the right platform for your target audience
Victoria Stableforth is the Recruitment Director for Accenture across ANZ, ASEAN and Korea. In this role, Victoria is responsible for driving recruitment delivery via local and global initiatives, including resource optimization, innovative talent acquisition programs, process improvement and recruitment best practice sharing globally.
Victoria has over 12 years HR and recruitment experience, working in a range of workforce management, recruitment, and learning and development roles across Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining Accenture, Victoria was the Asia Pacific Recruitment Delivery & Operations Lead for IBM, where she led recruitment projects to source talent for high growth markets, implementing new assessment tools, optimising recruitment support, building recruiter capability and process re-engineering. She has also been responsible for recruitment delivery metrics and employer branding.
Victoria commenced her recruitment career at Morgan and Banks and prior to that worked as a solicitor.
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Opening remarks from the chair
Harnessing social media to deliver superior recruitment results & differentiate your brand
Robert Orth joined IBM Australia in 1982. Prior to joining IBM, he was a serving officer (Flight Lieutenant) in the Royal Australian Air Force. He is currently the Director of Human Resources, IBM Australia/New Zealand. In this position he is responsible for the Human Resources functions across the business including: learning, professional and management development, leadership development, organisational culture and change, performance management, compensation and benefits, Occupational Health and Safety, Diversity, Workforce Management, Recruiting, employee relations and industrial relations.
He was appointed to this position in March 2002 having previously held the role of Director of Talent for IBM Asia Pacific for 4 years. In his Asia Pacific role, Mr Orth travelled widely across the Region and to Europe and the USA.
During his tenure, as A/NZ Human Resources Director, IBM Australia has been recognised for its leadership in diversity and corporate social responsibility including awards for: the Prime Minister Employer of the Year Award; ACCI Gold National Work and Family Award; Government Award for Employer Champion for Mature Age Workers; Diversity@Work Employment and Inclusion of People with a Disability Award and Inclusion of Mature Age Workers Award; EOWA Employer of Choice for Women – for 11 years; ‘Gold’ rating in the Corporate Responsibility Index.
Over the past 30 years Mr Orth has held various management positions in IBM; 16 years of these in line management positions in Sales and Marketing. He has also held a number of regional positions in Australia/New Zealand including responsibility for total business process re-engineering across the company, customer service and quality, strategic planning and direct marketing.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. He is on the Boards of IBM Australia Limited. The Diversity Council of Australia and The Leadership Consortium.
Mr Orth has a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Diploma of Education, both from the University of Sydney.
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Managing social media for business outcomes
Engaging talent through social media
Social media has greatly impacted the way people interact with brands. HR professional worldwide are now seeing the importance of leveraging social media channels to communicate their employee value proposition and attract talent.
Embedding social media within a strong employer branding strategy can help your business reduce recruitment costs, access a wider range of candidates and put your stamp on the employment market.
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How to build social media into existing employer brand strategies
Post-Conference Workshop
Thursday 28th June, 2012
9:00am – 4:00pm
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