Human Resources IQ/IQPC Announce the Recruiting & Staffing Best in Class (RASBIC) 2005 Winners

The 3rd Annual RASBIC Award winners of 2005 were announced at the hugely successful RASBIC Awards Dinner and Ceremony held on September 19th, 2005 at the Intercontinental Buckhead, Atlanta during the 8th Annual Recruiting & Staffing Summit, the annual networking and learning opportunity for recruiting and staffing executives.

HR IQ established the RASBIC Awards to honor, recognize and promote innovative best practices in workforce management and planning. To identify the organizations and individuals that exemplify these qualities, a prestigious list of Recruiting & Staffing experts and leaders were enlisted to accurately and objectively evaluate the overall effectiveness of world-class recruiting and staffing professionals and programs.

The response to the call for nominations for the 2005 Recruiting & Staffing Best In Class Awards (RASBIC) was overwhelming. The prestigious awards were given in six categories, each winner of the RASBIC Awards will no doubt set the standards of excellence for all organizations.

First Place and Honorable Mentions were awarded in each of the following categories:

Most Innovative Recruiting and Staffing Program/Initiative
• Winner: BMO Financial Group
• 1st Place Runner Up: The Home Depot

Best Use of Technology for Recruiting
• Winner: LexisNexis
• 1st Place Runner up: Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc

Best Overall Recruiting & Staffing Organization of the Year
• Winner: Bright Horizons Family Solutions
• 1st Place Runner Up: Texas Instruments

Best Recruiting Evaluation Technique
• Winner: Getronics
• 1st Place Runner Up: Bright Horizons Family Solutions

The Most Informative Recruiting & Staffing Industry Resource
• Winner: Taleo Corporation
• 1st Place Runner Up: AIRS

Recruiting & Staffing Industry Leader of the Year
• Winner: Dan Hilbert, Valero Energy Corporation
• 1st Place Runner Up: Terry Terhark, The RightThing, Inc


“We are honored to have been chosen as the recipient of the Best Overall Recruiting and Staffing Organization of the Year, as well as to receive the runner up award for Best Recruiting Evaluation Technique,” said Eileen Smith, Vice President of Human Resources, Bright Horizons Family Solutions. “As the leading provider of employer-sponsored child care and early education, these awards are particularly meaningful because the child care industry has historically been a very difficult one for recruiting.”

“It is always an honour when an organization’s efforts are recognized externally as being “best in class” said Wendy Parkes, Talent Planning & Acquisition Strategies, BMO Financial Group “This is particularly true when the recognition is by your peers within your own profession. The RASBIC award is a wonderful validation of the direction we are headed in our approach to student recruiting and training and it allows us to continue to push forward our efforts in taking this initiative to new heights.”

“Participating in the RASBIC Awards has been a rewarding experience for LexisNexis.” Said Carletta Railey-Worthy, Staffing Systems HR Automation Manager, LexisNexis “ We have participated in the past and won various awards. At LexisNexis, we are extremely proud of our innovative systems and tools. Our Human Resources organization takes great pleasure in designing systems that help our managers and employees be more productive by saving time and money. To be recognized as an industry leader means a great deal and confirms our continued drive to live and work on the cutting edge of technology.”

The 8th Annual Recruiting & Staffing Summit contained all new sessions and content, those at the event were given the opportunity to benchmark their operations against the true best in class and heard case study presentations from Fortune 500 Companies such as The Boeing Company, General Mills, The Home Depot plus many more. With a total of over 30 brand new case studies to learn from and 9 hands on interactive workshops detailing the steps required to create a successful recruiting & staffing department – this was the annual networking and learning opportunity for leaders in recruiting and staffing.


For more information on the Recruiting & Staffing Summit visit www.iqpc.com/humanresourcesiq.

Human Resources IQ provides educational conferences and expositions for HR executives to network and learn the latest HR developments and trends occurring in organizations today. Human Resources IQ concentrates on creating an interactive experience featuring practical, objective and up-to-date insight from leading HR practitioners. Annual events include, Corporate University Week, HR Systems, Diversity Week, Recruiting & Staffing Summit and Outsourcing HR.

Human Resources IQ is a division of the International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC). IQPC, and its parent organization, Penton Learning Systems (founded in 1973), have trained over 2 million executives at more than 50,000 conferences and seminars.

CONTACT: Nardia Crowther
IQPC
(212) 885-2690
nardia.crowther@iqpc.com

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