The Employer of Choice Conference was attended by over 170 representatives from Tasmanian businesses. The conference has helped to raise awareness of the issues and actions required for businesses to attract and retain skilled workers in an increasingly competitive labour market.  Local Tasmanian businesses shared their successful attraction and retention strategies and four renowned keynote speakers discussed contemporary demographic and workforce trends and their implications for Tasmanian businesses. Conference papers and presentations will be available on this site by mid August 2008. Entries for the Employer of Choice Awards 2008 are now being sought from organisations based in Tasmania employing five or more staff.
Bernard Salt Partner KPMG	Dr Natalie Jackson Associate Professor University of Tasmania	Julie Sloan Director Julie Sloan Management	Michael McQueen Director Nexgen Impact
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Biographies are detailed below

Other Presentations to Download.
Please note some of these presentations are large files and may take some time to download

• Fairbrother Group Employer of Choice conference presentation.ppt
• Gil Sawford Employer of Choice conference presentation.ppt
• Hazell Bros Group Employer of Choice conference presentation.ppt
• SEMF Employer of Choice conference presentation.ppt
• TAFE Tasmania Employer of Choice conference presentation.ppt
• WHK Garrotts Employer of Choice conference presentation.ppt

Keynote speaker biographies

Bernard Salt

Demographer and leading commentator and advisor to corporate Australia on consumer, cultural and demographic trends.

Bernard is a KPMG partner based in Melbourne and has established an international reputation as a trend forecaster for the property and financial services industries.

He is a bestselling author, a columnist with The Australian and Melbourne Herald Sun newspapers, a regular on the Australian and more recently European and US speaking circuits, and a business advisor.

http://www.bernardsalt.com.au/

Dr Natalie Jackson

Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Science, University of Tasmania, Director of the Demographic Analytical Services Unit, and an authority on population ageing.

Dr Jackson's main areas of research centre around population ageing unfolding at different rates across Australia's states, territories and local government areas, and the implications of intrinsic population decline.

Natalie has published and presented extensively on population-ageing issues in Australia and New Zealand.

http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/arts/sociology/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=1883

Julie Sloan

Widely regarded as Australia’s leading workforce planning practitioner, helping businesses and organisations prepare for ‘crunch time’ - when workforce exits exceed the incoming workforce.

Julie has provided advice and support to organisations and business in all levels of government and the Australian business community, across a broad range of industries, as well as working for prominent organisations internationally. Julie was the principal author of the recently published Standards Australia’s workforce planning handbook and is the author of ‘An introduction to Workforce Planning – are you ready for crunch time?’ released in 2008.

http://workforce-profiler.com.au/

Michael McQueen

People strategist and sought-after authority on engaging Generation Y in the workplace, at home, and in the classroom.

Michael is the founder of Nexgen Impact.  Nexgen’s mission is to partner with schools and businesses to assist students in making a successful transition from school to work.

Michael speaks to over 20,000 people each year in Australia and South East Asia on the topic of connecting generations and is a previous winner of the NSW Business Person of the Year award. Michael released his first book The New Rules of Engagement in late 2007.

http://www.nexgenimpact.com/