75 talent acquisition gurus turned out to discuss best practices in recruitment, in particularly, how to effectively use business networking at the NYC Recruiting & HR Network Meetup.  The Meetup.com group is adding about 50 new members per month.

The group beleives in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun.  At this Meetup people discussed how to become a better Talent Acquisition guru (for yourself).  Tiger Woods can use a coach, so can recruiters.  Even recruiters and HR candidates make mistakes with ineffective "elevator speeches," ineffective networking mistakes candidates make "moving " through the crowd, ineffective/annoying FOLLOW-UP, ungrounded expectations ( critical!), etcc...  The presenters addressed how to avoid some of these mistakes.

Here's brief videos from the presenters address some of those issues:

Monica R. Milner - Main points work on your elevator pitch and help others in networking.

Rick Longenecker - Main point be authentic in your networking.

 Pictures at:  http://www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting/photos/687016/ - Meetup has a "tag" function now, so tag those you know in the pictures.

The Meetup.com group has teamed up with ERE.net (the leading community and source for recruiting news and information) on these events.  Ernest Feiteira, the Meetup organizer, stated the next meetup will be in 4-6 weeks, the announcement will be on www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting.