WHR Group’s Director of Business Development for the Northeast Region, Kim DePinto, attended: “What a terrific conference in celebration of our thirty-fifth anniversary. We enjoyed record attendance for the sessions (132 global mobility professionals and suppliers) as well as record attendance for our corporate roundtable (35 corporate members), which was attended by Peggy Smith.”
Peggy Smith, President and CEO of Worldwide ERC®, was the keynote speaker. Peggy’s talk centered on Global Hiring Expectations, the hardest skills to find represented in today’s jobseekers, and why it’s so difficult to fill jobs with the right talent. The session also touched on new ways to find talent through apps like Roadie and TaskRabbit, and how apps like these can help fill the Generation Z need to be an entrepreneur.
Scott Michael, President and CEO of the American Moving and Storage Association, discussed new electronic monitoring for household goods drivers as well as the impact of finding unskilled laborers to train as packers in the moving industry. It will be a wait-and-see game as to how the electronic monitoring will impact delivery spreads and costs.