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Connect in San Francisco’s live stream is your virtual front-row seat to the best and latest thinking in Talent Acquisition. We know you’re busy – that’s why we’ve packed a day’s worth of content into two short hours – and will deliver it right to your desktop. On April 10th from 8:30-10:30am PT, tune in for our:

Talent Acquisition forecast – what the industry will look like by 2015, and what you need to do now to prepare.
Latest product information – we’ll reveal the new face of LinkedIn Recruiter.
Conversation with thought leaders – an interactive discussion on employer brand with leaders from InDemand companies including VMware and BP
Guide to leveraging data – hot tips for becoming a more strategic and efficient business partner.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

In many functions, this phrase governs how work gets done. CFOs, marketing leaders, and operations heads routinely turn to detailed spreadsheets and graphs to make important business decisions.

The ultimate compliment in recruiting these days is to be considered a talent advisor. So you can imagine how I felt when the following criticisms were leveled at my talent acquisition team by some of our more vocal business partners, as recently as 18 months ago:

-          Recruiting isn’t good enough.

Do you have two minutes? Watch this. You’ll smile. I promise.