Marcus Reif

As Head of Recruiting and Employer Branding in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Marcus and his team are responsible for the achievement of 5,000 hires per year.His role covers the end to end recruiting process, which starts at the brand, moves over to campus marketing and sourcing, including the technology and digital channels, over the entire selection at Ernst & Young. Marcus have recently built a shared service model approach balancing customer intimacy with cost optimisation, thereby streamlining HR processes. Marcus and his team have won numerous awards for their work including the HR Excellence Award for HR Controlling, Best German career advertisement (2015), Top Employer (2015) and Germany’s Best Recruiter (2014), as well as him personally winning awards for his blog.

At HR360, he will be drawing upon his recent experience in further strengthening the joint approach between talent acquisition and talent management, to foster an efficient, integrated talent management strategy. Further to this, he will also be speaking about to stepping out of recruiting by biography, and move forward with better achievements by selecting people based on their potential and talent.