Session: "Best Practice for Recruiting, Interviewing and Hiring"
Track: Resource Development

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Speaker: Connie Poulsen, Management Training and Consulting

Description: The hiring decisions made by managers impact the future of their organizations, but most managers receive little or no training on the process of recruiting and hiring good employees. This workshop is designed to provide managers with the skills and knowledge to effectively interview candidates and make good hiring decisions.

Speaker Bio: Connie Poulsen

Connie is a principle in Poulsen Management Training and Consulting, where she contracts with organizations as a professional speaker, trainer and consultant. Connie specializes in management and supervisory training.

Connie enjoyed a 25 year career at Xerox Corporation.  During her years at Xerox, Connie was responsible for the management of sales and profit as District Manager of Los Angeles.  She also held the positions of Western Region Training Manager, and Manager of Customer Education for the United States.   Her last position with Xerox was Manager, Education Industry Marketing in which she had worldwide responsibility for marketing programs.  

As an instructor at both Peninsula College and Olympic College, Connie developed and delivered seminars in management and supervision.

Connie holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach.  She also holds Marketing Management Certificates from Stanford University and Columbia University Graduate Schools of Business. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Executive Education seminar.  

Connie lives with her husband Soeren and their golden retrievers in Sequim, Washington. 

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