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2nd Annual HR Forum “New Technologies in HR Management”
September 26th 2007, Hotel Angleterre

On September 26th, RBCC St. Petersburg held the 2nd Annual HR Forum on one of the topics most exercising the minds of investors in Russia at the moment.
Any organisation is only as good as the people working within it, and the fact is that Russia is, for many reasons, critically short of qualified managers and specialists. In a country so abundant in mineral wealth, companies wanting to hire new staff are trying to sift the tiniest amount of gold from a stream which is showing no sign of turning into a torrent. As the higher education system struggles to adapt to the changing needs of an ever-expanding market, how can companies make sure that they find the pure gold they are looking for, and how can they make sure they keep their precious metal once they have it?
Human Resources is a subject as broad as it is deep, and has been covered in previous issues of the RBCC Bulletin. Under the umbrella-term "HR" are such topics as recruitment and selection, the retention and development of key personnel, identifying the "star" employees who merit further training and promotion, and of course maintaining a motivated and loyal workforce. Speaking at the HR Forum were a panel of leading specialists who addressed many of these topics.
The Chamber’s St.Petersburg Director, Yuri Barutkin, opened the event with a request for the assembled audience to follow the tradition of RBCC events by making maximum use of the opportunity to interact with the speakers, who represented some of the largest Russian and foreign companies active in Russia’s North West, including BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, ilim group , SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS RUSSIA LLC , sela corporation, jewellery stores “585”, dirol cadbury, EMC RUSSIA & CIS, ANCOR, PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS, WORKLINE GROUP UNICOMLEGAL Russia and many others.
The Forum was divided into three subsequent sessions - “New technologies for the personnel recruitment and retention”, “Technologies for employee development”, “The practical aspects of human resources”, - and attracted around 150 participants.
RBCC St.Petersburg would like to thank all those companies who made this event possible, to our sponsoring companies, ANCOR, Workline Group, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Staff Alliance, Rabota.ru project and UNICOMLEGAL Russia, to our media and information partners, and to the wonderful team at Angleterre Hotel, for providing an excellent venue and professional service, and above all to the delegates who took such an active part in proceedings.
We look forward to seeing you all next year.