(CHICAGO, Ill. – July 15, 2008) Gautam Godhwani, co-founder and CEO of Simply Hired, a Web 2.0 online recruiting and advertising network, noted as the world’s largest search engine for jobs, will be speaking at the Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2008, scheduled to be held at 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.

To register for Onrec.com EXPO 2008, at a $150 discount, use this (case sensitive) code: H4gxkF --- and register at: https://www.cteusa.com/onrec3/

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: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/090908/default.html
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.

Staffing professionals will not want to miss this exciting and informative session, where Gautam will share his expert staffing industry insights, highlight hiring trend data for 2008 and walk the audience through a practical “how-to” guide for tapping into the online recruiting market to attract the new generation of talent – the passive candidate, in which he will provide a great opportunity to those who attend Onrec.com EXPO 2008, in which he will be one of several speakers to attend.

For more information on the 40 speakers participating at this event visit: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/090908/speakers.html

Mr. Godhwani will be presenting, “Online Recruiting Trends and Best Practices.”

Mr. Godhwani was a pioneer in the Web. 1.0 days as Co-Founder and CEO of AtWeb, where his team passionately focused on helping employers engage in and simplify their use of technology to increase the operating efficiency of their overall business. Gautam continues his passion today by helping employers, recruiters and staffing agencies to understand the cost per hire efficiencies gained by effectively utilizing the Web as one element in their recruiting plan mix. In turn, staffing professionals will learn how to utilize the Internet and emerging social networks as a crucial recruiting tool for identifying and acquiring the untapped passive candidate pool.

Five Specific Learning Objectives:

1. How to utilize technology in passive candidate recruitment efforts (practical tools to maximize sourcing efforts)
2. Understanding of the top tier online recruiting terms and definitions (receive handouts of terms to refer to after the session)
3. Knowledge of the key benefits of including online as a part of a recruiting plan mix to obtain passive candidates
4. Understanding of the ROI of online recruiting (case studies will be presented)
5. Practical steps to begin or to optimize online recruiting efforts for maximum performance

For other session topics visit: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/090908/topics.html

Prior to Simply Hired, Mr. Godhwani was the co-founder and CEO of India Community Center, a non-profit focused on bridging the gap between the local and global communities. He continues to serve as a Trustee and Board of Directors at ICC. Prior to ICC, he was CEO and co-founder of AtWeb, an Internet 1.0 company acquired by Netscape/AOL in 1998. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Gautam held various technical positions at several small businesses including HP, IBM, and Microsoft. Gautam is a charter member of the Global TiE organization and serves on the Board and as an angel investor for several start-up companies. Gautam is a regular invited speaker to numerous business, career, academic, and financial conferences and symposiums, including the Dow Jones Emerging Ventures conference and Gautam was the keynote speaker aboard The Apprentice Legend Career Cruise hosted by Donald Trump that sailed the Caribbean. Gautam has presented directly to the internal recruiters for many large corporations recently including Schneider Trucking, Ask, CNN, Time Inc., Washington Post, Ann Taylor, and many more.

For more information on The Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2008, contact Keith Halloran at Keith@Onrec.com or visit: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/090908/default.html

To register for Onrec.com EXPO 2008, at a $150 discount, use this (case sensitive) code: H4gxkF --- and register at: https://www.cteusa.com/onrec3/