Tamara Erickson, Executive Vice President of nGenera, a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on organizations and the changing workforce, will be speaking at the Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference and Expo 2008 being held in the Donald E Stephens Convention Center, in Chicago on September 9 & 10, 2008. Onrec.com Expo 2008 is widely regarded as the “must attend” online recruitment event of 2008.

Onrec.com is the world’s leading information resource for Human Resource professionals and recruiters using the Internet to recruit. Onrec.com Expo 2008 is the only global gathering of online recruiting leaders and game-changing technologies. For more information about Onrec.com Expo 2008 visit: www.onrec.com/expo2008

Onrec.com Expo 2008 will bring together delegates and exhibitors involved in online recruitment from around the world to share their common interests, provide a business driven networking environment and stimulate discussion, debate, and beneficial partnerships.

Tamara Erickson’s extensive knowledge in workplace demographics will provide a great opportunity to those who attend Onrec.com Expo 2008, in which she will be one of several speakers to attend.

Ms. Erickson will present “Hunting for Talent in a Wiki World: How to Beat the Growing Global Shortage of Skills and Labor.” Her topic will provide many with the knowledge needed to find talent in the workforce, and useful insights on the global workforce, the new technologies that are rocking the recruiting world, and providing knowledge on successful ways to compete for tomorrow’s top talent.

Ms. Erickson explains, “During this decade there continues to be seismic shift in the workforce. Globally, several decades of declining birth rates are catching up with us. For the first time in modern history, the number of jobs created could begin to outstrip the number of people who desire to participate in the workforce - creating not just a temporary imbalance for a year or two, but a sustained, systemic scarcity over the decades ahead. And when you add a skill set filter over the raw numbers, the potential shortages look even more alarming. We're at a tipping point. By the end of this decade, most corporations will begin to experience a talent shortage.”

During her Onrec.com Expo 2008 session, Ms. Erickson will demonstrate that in order to hire the best talent in the marketplace, organizations will need to employ non-traditional channels, including the new technologies of Web 2.0, and approaches, such as social networking. Successful recruiting will also require new skills and perspectives to evaluate and assess talent. She will be presenting one of over thirty session topics for the Onrec.com Expo.

Ms. Erickson’s work is based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration.

Tamara Erickson has co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles: “It’s Time to Retire Retirement” (March 2004), winner of the McKinsey Award, “Managing Middlescence” (March 2006), “What It Means to Work Here,” (March 2007), and “Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams,” (November 2007), as well as the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, published by Harvard Business School Press (2006). She has also co-authored an MIT Sloan Management Review article, “Bridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams,” (Summer 2007). She also authored one of Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas for 2008, “Task, Not Time,” (February 2008).

Ms. Erickson is currently writing a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today’s workplace. Her first, Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation was released earlier this year. Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work will be available in the fall of 2008. The third, for Generation X, will be available next year. Her blog “Across the Ages” is featured weekly on HBSP Online - discussionleader.hbsp.com/erickson

The research initiatives she and colleagues have undertaken include Demography is De$tiny, exploring the implications of current demographic changes on human resource practices, and The New Employee/Employer Equation, developing new and powerful approaches to increasing employee engagement through segmentation. Her most recent research, Cooperative Advantage, done in collaboration with a team at London Business School, explored the working practices of over 50 teams in 15 multi-nationals, representing the most extensive academically-grounded study of industry-based team working ever conducted.

She is also a respected authority on technology and its implications for business and coauthor of the book Third Generation R&D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy, a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations.

Tamara is a former member of the Board of Directors of PerkinElmer, Inc., a Fortune 500 company competing in advanced technology markets, and a former member of the Board of Directors of Allergan, Inc., and also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and a MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where she was the recipient of the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship.

For more information on The Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference and Expo 2008, contact Keith Halloran at Keith@Onrec.com or visit: www.onrec.com/expo2008

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