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Dallas
/ Fort Worth Chapter Best Practices 2005 Career Resource Forum Summary-ACP International DFW Chapter Our 2005 Career Resource Forum entitled, “Outsourcing/Offshoring-The next great challenge to your Career!” held on Friday, 5/13/05, was a resounding success. The response from the community was overwhelming and exceeded our expectations. We had 74 attendees representing a diverse spectrum of the HR community, i.e, academia, Fortune 500 companies, Executive Recruiters, large and small consulting firms. Essentially, we feel we “hit a home run” in getting our local chapter’s name out in front to other organizations and the public in general. We partnered with IEEE and ASTD for advertising and publicity. We also hit all of the key networking groups and, of course, the announcement appeared in the Dallas Morning News, our daily newspaper. We held the Forum at the Cooper Aerobic Center, a central and well know location and first time venue for our meetings. The room, set-up and food were excellent. Key to the success was our panel representing both the pro-outsourcing and contrarian sides of the issue. We also had a panel member from the university who set up the “economic construct” for the discussion. Panel Members were:
Discussion was lively, informative, and well balanced. Many questions from the audience during Q&A. All were invited to our May 26 regular meeting where the program will focus on HRO-Human Resources Outsourcing, the impact on the people and the function. This a first time effort on our part to examine a particular issue in-depth at a follow up meeting. |
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