Recruiting Master, Hiring Visionary, National Public Speaker, and Amazon.com Best-Selling Author LOU ADLER comes to Seattle!

SMA Seattle is pleased to announce the prominent Lou Adler will share his expertise at our next professional development lunch in Seattle, WA. Known most for his performance-based hiring model, Lou will focus this program on using Quality of Hire to determine ROI. Over lunch he’ll guide us through what it takes to determine the ROI of any new program using Quality of Hire as the measurement standard. And then after lunch, for anyone wanting to stay later, we’ll break into groups and dedicate and extra hour to those wishing to stay and work through real-life ROI calculation challenges with other recruiting colleagues and Lou Adler himself. This is your chance to get some quality time with one of the industry’s leaders, so register early.

Key Topics include:

• Determining the Quality of Hire using a talent scorecard
• What's is your company's current new hire talent mix and is it getting better or worse
• Learn the basics of Quality of Hire ROI and become your CFO’s best friend

Lou Adler will guide you through how to justify an increase in budget to handle the next edition of the war for talent. Specific topics in this Financial Analysis for Recruiters primer include:

• Will employee churn lead to a surge in replacement hiring activity?
• Determining if you’re hiring for talent or just filling requisitions.
• How to calculate the ROI of any new recruiting initiative.

Lou Adler (lou@adlerconcepts.com) is the CEO and founder of The Adler Group (www.adlerconcepts.com), an international training and consulting firm helping companies develop business systems to hire A-level talent using Performance-based Hiringsm. He is the Amazon best-seller author of Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007) and the Nightingale-Conant audio program Talent Rules! Using Performance-based Hiring to Hire Top Talent (2007). Adler is a noted recruiting industry expert, international speaker, and columnist for a number of major recruiting and HR organization sites including SHRM, HRPA, SMA, ERE, Kennedy Information and HR.com.