HORSHAM: An executive of the human resource magazine today named the contestants of the software “Shootout” at the publication of the eleventh conference as well as exposition of the eleventh annual technology, being organized from 15-17 October at the McCormick Place in Chicago. The event – “ The Industry’s First Talent Management Shootout” is going to take place on the coming 16 October 2008.
The softscape will present demonstrations of the custom software that is solely based on the written requirements of HR addressing the session audience. This audience is predicted to be of about one thousand HR practitioners, financial analysts, vendors, consultants as well as industry personnel. All the session attendees are going to vote electronically to decide the winner of the shootout.
In all 13 companies from across the world participated in the 2 month screening process for the selection of the contestants. The director of research of the talent management for Bersin & Associates, Leighanne Levensaler, wrote the script with the help of Bill Kutik, who co-chairs the conference. Kutik is one of the technology columnists for the Human Resource Executive Magazine.
According to Kutik, this shootout will be the 12th in number in the last eight years. He further added that the talent management is quite certain about its popularity. This shootout is one of the most competitive as well as the hottest areas of the HR technology in today’s times.
He further continued that the shootout has really become one of the signature events and this is due to the fact that the HR professionals actually get to be compared for the 4 software systems. The best part is that they all are doing exactly the same thing in the identical sessions.
