as a part of seminar series
"Silicon Valley Best Practices. Kiev Master Classes"
September 14, 2007
”Kubik” Business Center, Kiev

BayView Innovations and Yuri Boyko continue their exclusive venture business seminar series, and invite you to a meeting with Natasha Krol – well-known specialist of personnel search and management from Silicon Valley.

Natasha Krol is a Managing Partner at Alexander and Krol, an Executive Search firm specializing in the US and Eastern European Technology Markets. Prior to that, she was a Senior Client Partner with Korn/Ferry International’s Global Technology Market, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Her clients included companies like Google, HP, Audatex, TransUnion and others.

Ms. Krol has more than twenty years of experience in the development and application of information technology. Most recently, Ms. Krol led overall marketing efforts for several start-up and medium-size Silicon Valley software companies, including Evoke Software (now Informatica) and eMotion (now Corbis).

SCHEDULE:
9:30 – 10:30 Session 1:Talent management
According to the recently conducted research of leading consulting company McKinsey, the most essential corporate resource during the next 20 years will be talent. Ability to successfully attract the best candidates enables HR subdivisions to transform from expense items to strategic business partners.

Session Key Topics:

• Managing key talent elements and its differences from traditional personnel management cycle.
• What HR professional may learn from other functional leaders increase operating efficiency and begin to render valuable business services.
• Best practices in the field of organizational development. Administrative couching, continuous planning and productivity management.

10:45 – 12:00 Session 2: International recruiting 
Entrance to a new market entries, product and marketing strategy development abroad require HR professional to obtain ability to quickly orientate and operate on new territories.

Session Key Topics:

• Basic rules of International recruiting
• Strategy for search and recruitment of top-managers, medium-level managers and employees in different regions
• Largest executive search companies
• Labor legislation in European Union and USA

12:30 – 14:00 Session 3: Hi-tech start-up team formation
Within the framework of this session, Natasha Krol deals with problems of talents attraction for a young company, which traditionally runs in the deficit of financing, has imperfect infrastructure and is unknown to the general public:

• What is the talents attraction strategy of your company (except searching between friends, relatives or personal contacts)?
• What are the most efficient talent attraction channels: Linkedin, Monster, Craig’s, recommendations, recruiters?
• Costs to develop talent search strategy .

Seminar Participants:
HR directors, Recruiting agencies’ consultants, people who are searching for in executives in Ukraine and abroad; businessmen, developing hi-tech companies(aimed at global markets); representatives of business media.

This seminar will be organized by Mr. Boyko and BayView Innovations, a company dedicated to developing venture investment market in Ukraine by providing consulting services to developers of promising commercial projects: finding financing for early stages of project development and rising project’s attractiveness for potential investors.

Seminar partners:
Сommerce Magazine, Capital Strategy consulting company, project http://www.developers.org.ua/, IT Ukraine association, community Mobile Monday, Technobridge international fund, HR Center, TOTAL HR Consulting . 

Media Partners:
EMPLOYMENT,  «Personnel Management» magazine

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