How can you attract real talent and strengthen your workforce ?
Anne McCafferty, Head of Retail HR, BestBuy Europe/The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC will provide the answers at the Retail HR Summit April 27th 2010.
Anne will also discuss:
Achieving a clearer picture of how the economy has affected the retail recruitment market in order to unearth new opportunities.
Reinvigorating your recruitment strategy to prepare for the upswing in order to attract the best talent to your organisation.
Creating a high value, motivated customer-focussed workforce through improved selection initiatives.
Boosting sales through establishing best practices of recruiting high quality and professional “shop floor” employees.
Switching effectively from temporary to permanent staff with key working times.
Following the success of our last 2 Retail HR Summits; this event will enable a focussed group of Retail HR executives to benchmark their HR strategies and share ideas in a relaxed environment. Despite the inevitable redundancies and cost cutting measures imposed by the recession, recent research has shown that demand for goods and services in the UK is now increasing causing retail HR executives to re-evaluate their strategies. Many retailers who were streamlining their operations in the last 18 months are now implementing new initiatives with fresh approaches to recruitment, motivation, adding customer value, workforce managemen, succession planning, retention and flexible working practices.
Other confirmed speakers include:
Annette Middlebrook, Group Human Resources Director, Clinton Cards
Ryan Cheyne, Head of HR, Pets at Home Ltd (winner of the 2008 Employer of the Year Award at the People in Retail Awards and nominated for The Reward & Recognition Award at The 2009 Personnel Today Awards)
Liz Bramley, Head of Employee Engagement & Diversity, The Co-operative Group (one of The Great Place to Work Institute’s 50 Great Places to Work 2009)
Rachel Howard, EMEA Consumer HR Business Partner, Dell
Nick Rowe, Group Head of Learning and Development, Punch Taverns
Naomi Hewitt, HR Director, The Net-a-Porter Group (one of Times Online’s Top 100 companies to work for 2009)
Rowena Cooper, Retail Recruitment Manager, WM. Morrison Supermarkets PLC
Lee Evans, Group Recruitment Manager, New Look Group
Ben Zifkin, co-founder of Axsium
Jon Naylor, Head of Productivity, DSG International PLC
For more information on the Summit click here
For sponsorship, exhibiting or speaking opportunities contact Ian Sprange 01737 647100 ians@theretailbulletin.com or Mark Higgins 01737 647101 markh@theretailbulletin.com
