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Leveraging Technology and Social Media in Time & Expense Management (DCR Workforce)
Thursday, March 06, 2014, 01:00pm - 02:00pm
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The shortest and fastest route to great talent is through your best employees and contractors and their trusted networks.  Social media allows companies and recruiters to tap into those networks. Most recruiters have mastered the techniques of announcing open positions on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.  The use of talent exchanges to engage freelancers is growing.  New social networking sites that focus on a particular specialty are being launched every day. 

While social recruiting is becoming an ‘every day’ activity in most companies, what are the particular nuances and challenges when finding temporary talent through social media.  What approaches are most effective for negotiating rates and terms? How does a company manage these resources?  What specific challenges must be addressed regarding time and expense management?  Are there risks associated with the use of these approaches? How does a company integrate social media with existing approaches to workforce sourcing and management?

This session will explore the use of technology to reduce the complexities associated with time and expense management of a company’s ‘extended workforce’ of agency contractors, SOW-based project teams, independent contractors, and student interns. You will learn how to overcome the challenges of

  • Redefining HR & Business processes, especially in talent procurement, to mirror the rapid evolution of new technologies and social media
  • Incorporating the Best Practices of Social Recruiting and referrals into your vendor management system
  • Onboarding & classifying temporary workers sourced via social media
  • Using technology in managing time and expense for a blended and geographically distributed workforce.
  • Management of atypical schedules
  • Avoiding technology point solutions that help companies solve single problems
  • Selecting and using technology that will unify talent procurement; time and expense planning
  • Integrating the benefits of social media and predictive analytics into the vendor relationship

Who Should Participate

HR Executives, Supervisors of contingent workers, Procurement officers and finance managers who are tasked with temp worker payment and compensation.

What You Will Learn

  • Role of technology when managing social recruiting initiatives
  • Unique challenges of time and expense management for temp workers
  • Complexities of temporary worker compensation, time reporting and tracking, and the penalties for non-compliance
  • How to achieve unified talent management by using a social talent network that streamlines recruiting, onboarding, time and expense management, and workforce management.

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