Texas HR & Employee Benefits Summit

Texas HR & Employee Benefits Summit

July 15 and 16, 2013
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Richardson, North Dallas Texas

 

The Texas HR & Employee Benefits Summit is specifically organized for senior HR Managers and Directors who are directly involved with their organization's human resource and personnel management operations.

 

Learn more here- http://www.forumnetworkingevents.com/upcoming-forums/texas-hr-employee-benefits-summit-july-2013

Photos from The Ranch at Las Colinas Networking Mixer

More than 100 HR professionals kicked back on the porch at The Ranch to watch the sunset this past Thursday.

Texas HR Pros' leaders Liz and Foster hosted a networking event along with sponsor PreciseHire and were pleased with the turnout at the new venue.

A raffle was also held with prizes from Personalysis and other donors.

Thanks for attending! 

 

Meet Search4UInc at this Evening's Mixer

Foster in center

Come meet Foster Williams, a Texas HR Pros' leader, this evening at The Ranch at Las Colinas for our networking mixer!   No RSVP required--  http://texashrprosdallas2013-eorg.eventbrite.com/#

Foster offers many complimentary services to HR professionals and companies including free job postings.  http://search4uinc.com/post-a-job/

Foster also posts HR positions and knows many HR executives in Dallas Fort Worth because he has  25+ years experience in corporate recruitment, including more than 15 years in strategic recruitment management. Foster has served as Director of Recruitment for The Associates/Citigroup and GTE/Verizon Communications as well serving in consulting roles for large banking conglomerates, semiconductor manufacturing, and aerospace/DOD companies. In addition, he was a recruitment outsourcing leader for Korn/Ferry-Futurestep.

Most recently Foster co-founded the popular Career Search Network (CSN) and founded http://www.search4uinc.com that powers the Career Search Network. He spends the lion share of his time traveling to job seeker groups in the state of Texas and serving as the Job Search Navigator. In that role, he helps people navigate all the information shared by groups in order to help them create customized search plans to find that next job God has for them.

Watch the video below to see Foster Williams advising Debbie Brackens through WFAA's Starting Over with Jane McGarry on Good Morning Texas.

Contact Foster at 214.728.6930.
 

Big HR Networking Event April 11 at The Ranch

Personal Ad for HR Peeps

Seeking stately HR gurus who worship Texas and enjoy mingling with like-minded intelligent peers who are dedicated to their profession and to making a difference in business and the community.

Perhaps, this was more of a Personnel ad. 

Spring is here, and we could use some brilliant and industrious volunteers in Austin, Dallas, and Houston to reach our goals for our growing membership.

Please contact Eric@TexasHRPros.com to find out how you can make a difference by volunteering.

Burnett Staffing Is Texan Proud

Our premier sponsor for Houston's Networking Event on March 28, in Houston, is Burnett Staffing.  On their website, they are all about Texas which is obvious from their header on their home page.

They also proudly highlight their Texas awards on their Diversity web page in a section all its own...

Texas' 6th Top Woman-Owned Business
Texas' 6th Top Diversity Business
Texas Certified HUB (Historically Underutilized Business)
Texas Certified Small, Minority, Woman Business Enterprise

Other reasons why Texas HR Pros hearts Burnett Staffing...

1. They have a great LinkedIn company page.  http://www.linkedin.com/company/29104?trk=tyah
2. They have a  daily blog.  http://burnettstaffing.com/blog/
3. They are a Nationally Certified Woman-Owned Business and rank as follows--

            United States' 36th Top Woman-Owned Business
            United States' 23rd Top Small Business
            United States' 76th Top Diversity Business

     4.  They have won several diversity awards--

• 2011 - Breakthrough Woman- Women's Chamber of Commerce

• 2011 - Enterprising Woman of the Year Award- Enterprising Women Magazine

• 2010 - Inspiring Texas Woman Award- Sterling Bank - Women's Business Initiative

• 2010 - Enterprising Woman - NAWBO

• 2008 - One of Houston's 50 Most Influential Women- Houston Woman Magazine

• 2002 - Woman Business Entrepreneur of the Year - WBEA

• 2001 - Texas Women’s Hall of Fame Nominee- The Governor's Commission for Women

• 2000 - Woman of Excellence - Women's Enterprise

• 1997 - Outstanding Woman of Business - YWCA

• 1997 - Women on the Move - Houston Chronicle

• 1996 - Houston's Largest Woman-Owned Business- Houston Business Journal

• 1996 - Woman Business Owner of the Year - NAWBO

• 1995 - Houston's Top Woman-Owned Business- Houston Business Journal

 

 

HR Networking Event at The Ranch on April 11, 2013

From your hosts:  Liz D'Aloia and Foster Williams, leaders of Texas HR Pros in Dallas

North Texans: Join us from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, on Thursday, April 11, at The Ranch at Las Colinas! Come and enjoy the beautiful North Texas spring weather on the porch at The Ranch.

Many thanks to our generous sponsors, Precise Hire and Personalysis. Foster Williams of Search4uinc.com is bringing industry leaders and recruiters from the Career Search Network, so you don't want to miss this one!

The Ranch at Las Colinas
857 W. John Carpenter Freeway
On the corner of 114 and MacArthur
Las Colinas, TX 75039

Reach 4,200+ HR Professionals When You Sponsor Texas HR Pros' Networking Events

LinkedIn Group Texas HR Pros

 

• Announcement from Founder
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• The Benefits of Sponsoring Networking Mixers

Our group should come close to reaching 5,000 members by year’s end and our mixers have seen more and more people attend each time. 

 

If you want to capitalize on that growth and start putting your name out there in front of the growing number of HR professionals in our group, reach out to Eric at texasatty@gmail.com about securing one or more of the mixers in Houston, Dallas, and/or Austin.

 

Here are the four remaining Houston mixers scheduled for 2013:

• Thursday, May 30

• Thursday, July 25

• Thursday, September 26

• Thursday, November 21

 

(Dates for Dallas and Austin mixers TBA) 

 

Our sponsors will receive--

1. Posting mentions on our LinkedIn Groups which are cross posted on other LinkedIn Groups,
2. An advertisement on the home page of our blog,
3. Thank you mentions on Twitter and Facebook,
4. A blog posting feature about your products and services, and 
5. A monthly feature and annual thank you with your company hyperlinked on the Sponsor page of our blog. 

Being featured on our LinkedIn Group reaches a target audience of 4,200 HR and recruitment professionals across Texas.  Our social media mentions on our blog, Twitter, and Facebook also increase your company's website's SEO.  If you have any ideas, promo requests, or questions, please contact me...we can get creative.

 

I would also like to take the time to thank the following sponsors again:

2013 Sponsors and Partners

• Southern Charm Photography
• Personalysis
• Burnett Staffing
• Reddy & Neumann, P.C. 
• Career Connections at Second Baptist Church
• Search4U, Inc.
• Fort Worth Career Search Network
• Several Job Ministries  

 

Thank you in advance for your support and for providing networking opportunities for HR and Recruitment to connect and form professional and community-centric relationships.

Please contact:

Eric Griesel

Founder of Texas HR Pros

texasatty@gmail.com

713.459.1045

 

Want to Reach 4,100 HR Folks? Be a Sponsor for Texas HR Pros Networking Events

Every quarter, Texas HR Pros organizes networking events in Dallas, Austin, and Houston.  These are perfect opportunities for companies, whose clients are HR professionals, to reach a targeted audience of 4,100 members.

According to an article by Susan Friedman, sponsorship is the fastest growing form of marketing in the U.S. With this in mind, you can find unlimited opportunities to broaden your competitive advantage by increasing your credibility, image and prestige in sponsoring events attracting your target market.

Sponsorship offers the possibility of achieving several goals at once. According to Schmader and Jackson, in their book, Special Events: Inside and Out, a company can benefit from sponsorship in many ways, such as:

Enhancing Image/Shaping Consumer Attitudes
Often companies are looking to improve how they are perceived by their target audience. Sponsoring events that appeal to their market are likely to shape buying attitudes and help generate a positive reaction. Coca Cola, for example is always looking to generate a positive influence of their products in the minds of their consumers and as such regularly support events they feel can influence consumer opinions.

Driving Sales
Sponsorship geared to driving sales can be an extremely potent promotional tool. This objective allows sponsors to showcase their product attributes. Food and beverage companies often use sponsorship to encourage samplings and sales.IEG’s Complete Guide to Sponsorship cites Visa’s fund-raising effort around its sponsorship of the Olympic Games and the U.S. Olympic Team. They promoted their association by offering to make a donation to the team each time consumers charge a purchase to their card. American Express used a similar strategy by donating to needy causes with their "Charge Against Hunger" campaign. As a result, both companies experienced a significant rise in sales volume.

Creating positive publicity/heightening visibility
Every sponsor is seeking wide exposure in both electronic and print media. Positive publicity helps create heightened visibility of products/services. Various media covering the event may include sponsors names and/or photos. In addition, the kind of media coverage a sponsor may get is often unaffordable if the company were to think of purchasing it, and if it were available. To maximize this objective, it is important for the sponsoring company to have a comprehensive media campaign to augment the regular media coverage promoted by the organizers. Sponsorship can often generate media coverage that might otherwise not have been available.

Differentiating from competitors
The mere act of sponsoring an event, especially an exclusive sponsorship, is a significant way to create competitor differentiation. Your company name has the opportunity to stand out head and shoulders above the competition. This is particularly helpful if your company wants to combat a competitor with a larger ad budget. Sponsorship allows smaller companies to compete with their industry giants. Target audiences often perceive sponsorship in a positive way. They see you as making a greater effort to support the event, often allowing more or better activities to take place as a result of your sponsorship.

Helping with good "Corporate Citizen" role
Another powerful sponsorship objective allows companies to be viewed as a "good neighbor." To be seen supporting the community and contributing to its economic development is extremely powerful and creates enormous goodwill.

Enhancing business, consumer and VIP relations
Learn more and read rest of Friedman's article here:  http://marketing.about.com/od/eventandseminarmarketing/a/sponsorship_2.htm

We hope your company will participate.  If you have any questions about how we can highlight your company for sponsorship, please feel free to contact founder Eric Griesel at texasatty@gmail.com.

8th Annual Value-Based Benefits & Wellness Forum

 

TBGH/DFWBGH 8th Annual Value-Based Benefits & Wellness Forum and Vendor Fair

November 29, 2012 at 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM

The Westin Galleria Dallas, Dallas

This event requires registration: http://dfwbgh.org/wellness2012/index.htm

 

Please join us on November 29th for our 8th Annual Value-Based Benefits & Wellness Forum and Vendor Fair, where you will learn the secrets of high performance benefits and wellness programs that actually improve employee health and performance, save money, and deliver measurable returns on investment.

 

The Wellness Forum provides a broad range of critical topics and nationally recognized experts in benefits and wellness design strategies. Nearly 400 business and healthcare executives are expected to attend, including corporate benefits and wellness executives from large and mid-size Texas employers, health and benefits service providers and healthcare professionals.

 

Event Organizer: Marc Chappell (Deputy Director at SouthWest Benefits Association)

Huge Turnout at Texas HR Pros' Dallas Mixer

Foster Williams founder (Career Search Network) and Liz D'Aloia Vice President of HR (Nationstar Mortgage) networked with 200+ Dallas/DFW Texas HR Pros members at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine, at the Gaylord Texan Resort, on June 15, 2012.  This was a great opportunity to come out and meet fellow HR Pros.....and stay for the show at the Glass Cactus.

April Grady, Vice President Talent Solutions at Novotus, generously agreed to sponsor our event. As a bonus, Robert Half and University of Phoenix provided some additional door prizes, which were much appreciated.  

Five HR jobs were filled at the previous event. If you are an HR professional, Recruiter, Training professional, Administrative professional, Lawyer, or any legal professional in job transition you'll not want to miss the upcoming event on July 29.