iCIMS Hosted Webinar to Cover Post Recession & Seasonal HR Recruiting

– iCIMS to offer complimentary webinar this Wednesday, November 18th at 1pm ET on applying the retail industryĆ¢??s best practices for seasonal hiring in a post-recession HR landscape –

HAZLET, N.J. (November 16, 2009) – iCIMS, the third-largest provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, announced today that the company will be offering a complimentary webinar on Wednesday, November 18th at 1:00 pm (ET) titled, “Post Recession & Seasonal HR Practices”. The one-hour webinar will consist of a panel discussion featuring HR leaders from the retail industry and will focus on the correlations between retail seasonal hiring and the future of post recession HR.

Panelists including HR leaders from Adidas, Gander Mountain, & Rite Aid will provide insight around several topics including Proactive Workforce Planning Strategies, Existing Employees: Keeping Top Talent once the Economy has Improved, and Recruiting Changes – Adapting to a Different Talent Pool. The goal of the webinar is to prepare companies of all industries for the new types of necessary HR practices via the retail industry’s experience with seasonal hiring. From an increase in hourly hiring to utilizing alternative forms of recruiting, the retail industry serves as a microcosm for what the rest of the nation can expect for HR practices in 2010.

iCIMS, a leading provider of web-based talent management solutions, provides companies with powerful, yet configurable technology to help support recruiting and human resources needs. HR professionals from the retail industry in particular, benefit from the platform’s inherent flexibility and robust reporting features, which allows them to store and report on all candidate and employee information within one system. Additionally, the Talent Platform helps retail companies manage and streamline a high volume of applications – eliminating hours of manual data entry. Retail corporations with multiple locations have leveraged the Talent Platform to attract, evaluate and hire candidates who are interested in different types of opportunities within their organizations, including both corporate and field positions. Moreover, iCIMS’ comprehensive three-tier Reporting Center enables recruiters to compare metrics across multiple locations from one centralized system.

Users of the iCIMS Talent Platform can manage a variety of candidate and employee management needs such as applicant tracking, onboarding, and workforce planning, as well as succession planning, employee data management, employee surveys and more. Through iCIMS’ web-based Talent Platform, HR professionals of all industries can automate and streamline the complete talent lifecycle within one core system.

The free webinar, “Post Recession & Seasonal HR Practices” will occur on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 1:00pm (ET). To register for the event please click here.

Source: iCIMS

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