Comments on: Punk Rock HR Contest: SHRM Swag Winners

By: fran melmed

fran melmed — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:12:43 +0000

a duck from aflac? i may need to recant my earlier position on no swag. i could take out my irritation w/their ads on that poor defenseless duck.

By: Elise

Elise — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:45:27 +0000

ARGH, if only I had known there was an AFLAC duck at stake. Dammit, I want an AFLAC duck.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:03:20 +0000

@Ben You’re right about Carer Builder and Snag-a-Job. Free food & alcohol = packed!

@Matt What? Someone won $1000? I had no idea.

@Nancy/Bruno I did keep some bliss products for myself (I was there four nights) and I have no idea who won the car except that it was some chick from Delaware.

@Tim I didn’t even grab a LinkedIn pen. I was robbed!

@Tracy Thank Apollo for losing his placement on the comments section. He freed up some winners.

@HRPuter OMG, I didn’t even think about the lip balm. Yuck.

@Roolvel Yah know, if the Coach bag isn’t 100% leather like my Coach Stewardess bag, I don’t want it. Does that make me snobby? I’m old school in my Coach tastes — although I lie because I have some newer bags. I like the classics, though.

@George She hearts treats. I gave her some after we snapped the picture!

@Jenn Investment is absolutely right.

By: Ben Madden (benmadden)

Ben Madden (benmadden) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:01:09 +0000

I kept telling vendors that I do not want/need their crappy pens, water bottles etc… many were frankly shocked. Do I want to win a Kindle or a Wii, you bet but do I need to have 5000 pens and stuffed animals with company logos for companies I will NEVER use, nope! I came back with a “SHRMwow” (since now I do not need to buy the actual one) and the Yahoo Super Recruiter and the notebook I used to take notes.

Laurie’s point about having food etc… I NEVER saw the booth at Career Builder more crowded than when the folks from Top Chef were giving away food and drinks and the same goes for Snag-a-Job with the Hurricanes.

If you are going to blow your marketing budget, at least think about what is useful and will get people talking. I frankly was more impressed with the SuccessFactors dinner than any of the free crap.

(Yes I am aware that I dropped the names of several vendors in this but do not endorse any of them with the exception of SucessFactors!)

By: Matt Giorgio

Matt Giorgio — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:48:15 +0000

Were the scratch tickets not an event? Somebody won $1000!

By: akaBruno

akaBruno — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:14:36 +0000

You and me both, Nancy. I’ve gone to the conference 9 years, and have yet to find someone I know who has won a major booth prize.

By: Nancy Newell (simutis)

Nancy Newell (simutis) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:25 +0000

I’m still waiting for my notice that I won a Kindle…
Oh, and Bliss products from the W totally rock. I trust you saved some for yourself, too.
And yeah, that’s a lot of crap. =]

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:49:11 +0000

I couldn’t believe how much “stuff” I saw people carrying around. WHY???

I am happy to see the LinkedIn pens didn’t make the box!!

By: Tracy Tran

Tracy Tran — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:49:03 +0000

1) About time the random number generator thingy cooperated. It owed me big time.

2) America is doom now that I have this swag

By the way, I agree each booth needs some type of food, or a Wii.

Thanks

By: HRputer

HRputer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:44:06 +0000

I hate seeing the lip balm give-aways. Usually they are not hermetically sealed and I often wonder who else has kissed the before I do and thus never put it to my lips. SAP used to have a hoard of that swag, not sure if they’re still giving it away. However, Careerbuilder scores a win on the other end with the Hand Sanitizer. With H1N1 still around, finding small bottles of the Hand Sanitizer is like finding gold.

Does the ADP calculator automatically calculate how much Uncle Sam gets? More importantly, does it have a program by which you can routinely update local tax jurisdictions and rates (I’m looking at you Pennsylvania)?