With over 6,000 members, the FIRM Network (otherwise known as the Forum for In-house Recruitment Managers), is a collaborative community of in-house recruiters.

This year, we are delighted to be presenting at their FIRM Winter Conference on Thursday 22nd October in London.

Ever been curious about the success of other organisations’ employee referral schemes?  Or what about the similarities between consumer brands and employer brands? The answers to these – and, of course, much more – will be delivered by a diverse mix of speakers at the bi-annual in-house recruitment conference.

Karen will be presenting on the day, alongside Dr Susan Matos who heads up the Knowledge Transfer Centre at the University of Reading. Karen and Susan are leading a session exploring how business-academic collaboration can transform opportunities for graduates and SMEs.

From celebrating a huge academic talent pool to touching on the skills shortage crisis, Karen and Susan will share how building a relationship can help in-house recruiters to develop their graduate talent attraction strategy.

Book your tickets now! Karen Ovenden, Operations Director, Hireserve, & Dr Susan Matos, Head of Knowledge Transfer Centre, University of Reading – ‘ A match made in Reading: Academic and Business collaboration – how to transform opportunities for graduates & SMEs’ 

Are you a member of The Firm and interested in joining this year’s in-house recruitment conference? Are you intrigued by the possibility of transforming your graduate recruitment, or interested to find out what role you could play in helping to reduce the skills gap?

Head to The Firm’s event page above to register for the conference this Thursday. And, in the meantime, we’ve lots of extra reading you can do!

From how we at Hireserve are trying to bridge the skills gap to how an SME can ‘grab a graduate’ in a crowded recruitment landscape, there’s lots of juicy content to get started with.

Find out why apprenticeships should be a topic of conversation for small businesses, or read our latest guest post explaining why Millennial satisfaction can be found in SMEs.

Before Thursday, why not also familiarise yourself with Karen’s past speaking appearences and archive of articles?

We hope to see you on Thursday in London. And if you can’t make it but would like to find out more about our experience of academic-buiness collaboration, please do get in touch to discover how it benefited our team.

Find out more

Understand how can academia can transform your graduate recruitment

Read our article for the NCUB on academic-business collaboration

Find out how Hireserve ATS can enhance your in-house recruitment processes