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Talent Marketing Practitioner Summit 2025

May 20-21, 2025 | Atlanta, GA

Agenda

Tuesday, May 20

9:45 AM

Registration, Networking, and Refreshments

10:30 AM

Welcome and Introduction

10:45 AM

Peer-Led Vendor* Clinic: ATS and CRM

*We are a vendor-free community, so these “vendor clinics” are a special opportunity to dig-in, ask tough questions, and get candid feedback — not a sales pitch.

No vendors will be present in these open, peer-led discussions where you can find workarounds and share successes (and frustrations) with the talent marketing tool integral to your program’s success. If you aren’t a customer but are considering an investment in a particular vendor, you can get an honest assessment from other brands who use the tool. In this clinic, we’ll focus on:

  • iCIMS
  • Symphony Talent
  • Phenom
  • Workday
  • Beamery
  • Paradox
  • Avature

11:15 AM

Break

11:20 AM

Peer-Led Agency* Clinic: Talent Marketing Agencies

*We are a vendor-free community, so these “agency clinics” are a special opportunity to dig-in, ask tough questions, and get candid feedback — not a sales pitch.

No agencies will be present in these open, peer-led discussions where you can find workarounds and share successes (and frustrations) with the talent marketing partner integral to your program’s success. If you aren’t a customer but are considering an investment in a particular agency, you can get an honest assessment from other brands who are current clients. In this clinic, we’ll focus on:

  • Radancy
  • AppCast/Bayard
  • Shaker
  • Recruitics
  • SymphonyTalent
  • None / In-house

11:50 AM

Lunch Discussion

12:20 PM

Panel: Career pathing in talent marketing – where do we go from here?

As talent marketing continues to evolve, so too do the career paths, specializations, and opportunities within this field. We’ll talk about how we structure our teams for growth, where we’re finding talent, and what career pathing looks like for ourselves as leaders in addition to our teams. Wherever it is you’re hoping to go, this community is here to help you find the resources you need to get there.

1:00 PM

Break

1:10 PM

Case Study

Building an award-winning employee storytelling campaign

Jenn Spantak, Caterpillar

How did one of last year’s most compelling storytelling campaigns get its start from the cutting room floor? Caterpillar’s Global Employment Brand & Marketing Director, Jenn Spantak, will share the journey of the “Your Story. Our Impact.” campaign from its tenuous start getting leadership buy-in to its award-winning finish across multiple channels to attract candidates and energize employees. Join this session to learn how to source stories and even when it’s best to deploy them.

Case Study

Incorporating artificial intelligence into talent marketing

Every conversation these days seems to touch on Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) tools like ChatGPT. As a talent marketer, you can easily feel behind the times. How can you put this technology to work for you? In this case study you’ll learn how to leverage Gen AI tools to augment marketing communications and content creation. This call will give you tangible takeaways to help you integrate Gen AI into your teams and steps you can take to effectively – and safely – develop an AI partner for your talent marketing communications.

1:40 PM

Break

1:55 PM

Case Study

Bringing a career site in-house, from scratch

Carolyn Larnson, C.H. Robinson

We’ve all considered the pros and cons of bringing your career site in-house – and this is your opportunity to hear directly from Carolyn Larson, Senior Program Manager of Recruitment Marketing & DEI at C.H. Robinson, about her experience doing just that. She’ll share candidly about the technical functionalities required to bring a career site in-house, internal resourcing and skillsets required, the unexpected costs and internal hurdles, as well as the benefits, leadership support, and ROI. If you’ve ever wondered if moving your career site in-house would be the right decision, this session is for you.

Case Study

Programmatic job vendors: Where’s the ROI?

We could debate all day whether programmatic vendors are – or aren’t – in following through on promises to find new talent. Either way, you can’t afford to gamble with your programmatic spend. Whether you’re getting a great return on your investment or are scratching your head over where the spend is going, you’ll want to witness this case study. We’ll talk through setting goals and what we should expect programmatic jobs to accomplish as well as whether programmatic is an effective strategy outside the United States.

2:25 PM

Break

2:40 PM

Case Study

Organizing data for meaningful talent marketing metrics

Samantha Schuch, Spectrum

The only thing harder than attracting talent is showing the ROI of your efforts … that is, until you attend this session with Spectrum’s Talent Attraction Marketing Manager, Samantha Schuch. She’ll show you how to create and roll out a playbook for consistent tracking to determine what recruitment sources drive the best ROI for the business. Discover how to track not only digital media efforts, but sourcing, events, and types of creative along with brand awareness and social profiles. After this session, you’ll be able to show all the value talent attraction and acquisition brings to your organization.

Case Study

Maturing your talent marketing approach

It’s one thing to develop long-term goals for growing your talent marketing program … but it’s a challenge to weather labor markets, hiring goals, and company objectives from one year to the next. Join this confidential session to learn how one company approaches the opportunity — and the challenge — of growing a talent marketing team for today and tomorrow. We’ll explore the journey from dreaming up a team to what responsibilities they actually cover and how to continue to evolve the thinking around what a “mature team” means.

3:10 PM

Networking Break

3:40 PM

Case Study

Rallying employer brand when “EVP” is a curse word

Shavonne Thomas, AbbVie

It’s one thing to energize the enterprise around an EVP – it’s another when you have to start with an uphill battle to get everyone to WANT one. Shavonne Thomas is AbbVie’s Associate Director of Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing, and she’ll describe her ongoing journey to put the “value” in “employee value proposition.” From inheriting a project that needed better TLC and socializing, to crafting new ways to put meaning behind it and make it resonate with leadership and employees, Shavonne is helping AbbVie flip the script on the understanding of what an EVP is and how to get key stakeholders to rally around it.

Case Study

Recruitment marketing menus to manage demand

You’re making a career of developing innovative, productive ways to market your company’s biggest talent opportunities – what’s the best way to make sure hiring managers across the enterprise know how you can support their efforts? Recruitment marketing menus are becoming the trend, and for good reason: Join this case study to see how one company created a picklist for hiring managers to know the cost, effectiveness, and use cases for different recruitment marketing techniques.

4:10 PM

Break

4:25 PM

Case Study

Thriving with a global, always-on recruitment marketing strategy

Ciara Salg, Hilton

Global companies face complex, nuanced challenges in attracting talent from all corners of the world; a special challenge like this requires special thinking, and Hilton is making great strides in figuring it out. Join Hilton Senior Manager of Recruitment Marketing, Diversity Recruiting, & Employer Brand Ciara Salg as she describes the always-on approach leveraging programmatic, SEM, and paid and organic social media to create a consistent presence regardless of time zone. You’ll get a rare peek behind the talent marketing curtain from one of the most iconic global employers.

Case Study

Optimizing recruitment marketing spend with data-driven decisions

There are two phases in managing a budget: When you’re asked to tighten your belt … and the moment just before you’re asked to cut spending. What if you could get ahead of it all? In this case study, we’ll see a confidential example of exactly how one talent marketing leader handled this challenge. We’ll witness the ins-and-outs of how the team was able to find significant cost savings in talent marketing spend across various platforms by using data and fresh thinking to inform platform consolidation and partnership expansion to meet the needs of their evolving business.

4:55 PM

Adjourn

5:00 PM

Drinks Reception and Member Dinner

Following our afternoon of conversations and case studies, we’ll all go out for a fantastic dinner together. It’s a perfect opportunity to connect with your fellow members before a big day of brainstorming, discussion, and collaboration.

Wednesday, May 21

8:00 AM

Themed Breakfast Discussions

The conversations over coffee and eggs at this event are often more lively than any other conference’s happy hour. You’ll want to be here bright and early (and on time). 

The tables will be divided into functional areas so leaders can pick where they want to sit and connect with others who are interested in talent marketing and…

  • Campus recruiting
  • Internal comms
  • Corporate marketing
  • Recruiting events
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Recruiters and sourcers

8:50 AM

Opening Remarks

9:00 AM

Panel: Getting talent marketing a seat at the table

How are you working to ensure talent marketing is a business priority instead of that department we call on only when needed? How are you utilizing data and insights to show the impact of talent marketing across your organization? Join us for an informal panel discussion on how we position our function to ensure continued investment and gain a seat at the table. We’ll talk through what we present to executives, as well as where we’re gaining buy-in and where we could do better. Come away with new tactics and approaches to proving the value of your program to leadership.

9:30 AM

Break

9:45 AM

Workshop

Shaking up talent marketing with new ideas

Join this open discussion about ways to add new flavor and ideas to your talent attraction efforts. What works for campus/early careers personas is different than tech jobs or executive positions — let’s talk about how we’re going beyond display ads to attract each audience where they live. How are you exploring TikTok or other emerging platforms? We’ll discuss what marketing leaps are worth taking, which ones have fallen flat, and how to make the case for budgets to try new things.

Workshop

LinkedIn: Ownership, structure, and content

Join this confidential, brands-only conversation on what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what we’re planning next for talent marketing on LinkedIn. We’ll talk through our recent LinkedIn strategies, including who owns the presence (and who should), how the presence is structured and utilized, and how to track ROI on candidate attraction. Don’t miss this chance to benchmark on LinkedIn with others who understand this crucial platform’s unique challenges and opportunities.

10:15 AM

Break

10:30 AM

Workshop

Relaunching career sites: Strategies that work

If you’re in the early stages of your own site relaunch, join this workshop to compare notes and share ideas around how to begin auditing your existing site, what steps get all stakeholders aligned on new looks and processes, and how much revamping can be done without switching site hosts. Your site may need work, but you need a place where you can confidentially benchmark with peers who understand what you’re going through.

Workshop

Equipping your stakeholders with EB marketing know-how

Creating the world’s best employer brand assets and messaging won’t do you much good if your recruiters, sources, and other stakeholders don’t know what to do with it. We’ll workshop how to develop pathways to tee up success for both the talent marketing team and the talent acquisition partners we work with– everything from cultivating a sense of personal brand and how LinkedIn plays a part in that to internally socializing employer brand content in innovative ways has made a dramatic impact on talent acquisition.

11:00 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Workshop

Who should talent marketing report to?

Should “talent” and “marketing” share the same name? With three of every four TMB members reporting to Talent Acquisition, it would make sense that Talent Marketing could be held to KPIs like app volume and quality hires. But a quarter of our community reports to marketing or communications, where accountabilities are a little different. Let’s talk about the corporate structuring around employer brand and recruitment marketing – how it defines our efforts, where it supports us, and when it has looking at the green grass on the other side of the fence.

Workshop

Talent attraction and diversity: Are we still committed?

Back in 2020, big brands made statements committing to diversity, and some talent teams were tasked with hiring goals based on race or gender, opening the door to attracting other underrepresented groups. But the DEI climate has changed in the past year. Let’s bring together the talent attraction leaders at the world’s biggest companies to discuss the state of diversity hiring in 2025: How corporate goals are changing, how our own plans have evolved, and what changes we’re looking forward to — or are fearful of.

11:45 PM

Themed Lunch Discussions

During lunch, the tables will be divided into industries so leaders can pick where they want to sit and connect with others who are leading talent marketing in the same space:

  • Consumer products / Retail
  • Banking / Financial services / Investments
  • Insurance
  • Healthcare / Pharma / Biotechnology
  • Manufacturing
  • Telecommunications
  • Technology
  • Other

12:45 PM

Break

12:55 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Improving the candidate experience
  • Making the most of a talent community
  • CRM: Selection, ownership, governance, execution
  • Finding the right video vendor

1:30 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • How to attract the right skills (and not just a role)
  • Activating your EVP, internally and externally
  • Educating the enterprise on talent marketing’s value
  • Changing the ‘order taker’ stigma of talent marketing

2:00 PM

Break

2:15 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Marketing your employee referral programs 
  • Talent marketing with diversity in mind 
  • Great Place to Work and other award strategies 
  • Diversity partners: Which ones are worth the investment?

2:45 PM

Adjourn

Please note: This agenda is subject to change based on speaker availability and scheduling.