Items to be Auctioned
You can’t have a charity auction without donations from the community. This page is where we’ll showcase those donations. Check back to this page to see what’s listed — particularly if you’ll be attending the auction.
Also: If you make a donation, we’ll add it to this page!
Auction bidders and the ERE Foundation alike certainly appreciate donations in both categories.
Monster is matching, dollar-for-dollar, up to $15,000, all proceeds generated from the Fall Expo’s Silent Auction.

1-year subscription to 1ArtCity.com
- Description:
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1ArtCity.com is giving away a 1-year subscription to 1ArtCity.com, the premier art site where you can select an original work of art from some of the very best artists painting today, choose from a list of classical, jazz, & contemporary music, add your message, and send out as an artcard with music.
Membership includes privileges to 1Photo.com as well. You can send unlimited art and photo cards, plus you can upload your own photos to share and create lasting memories by adding in music from over 400 song selections.
- Value:
- $36
- Donor:
- 1ArtCity.com

Southwest Airlines Gift Card
- Description:
- AfterCollege had donated a $300 Southwest Airlines gift card, for airfare in the continental United States.
- Value:
- $300
- Donor:
- AfterCollege

Four Job postings and Three Months of Resume Search Access
- Description:
- Post four jobs and search for three months through the AllRetailJobs.com extensive resume database, containing 500,000+ retail resumes.
For the last seven years, AllRetailJobs.com remains the only significant retail career and recruiting job board. Post jobs on AllRetailJobs.com and target qualified candidates for retail positions such as Store Management, District and Regional Management, Sales Associates, Merchandisers, Buyers, and Corporate Executives.
- Value:
- $1295
- Donor:
- AllRetailJobs.com

SpaFinder Gift Certificate
- Description:
- Beeline is the donor of a SpaFinder Gift Certificate, accepted at over 4,500 participating spas worldwide. (So you can choose your favorite spa or salon.) This certificate is redeemable for spa treatments, vacation experiences, spa products, and more. Value: $150.00
- Value:
- $150
- Donor:
- Beeline

Official NBA Basketball autographed by Four NBA Legends
- Description:
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One was a human highlight film, even against Michael Jordan.
Another made a shot that, in slow-motion replay, doesn’t seem real.
Julius Erving, Clyde Drexler, Jamal Mashburn, and Dominique Wilkins signed this ball, donated by CareerBuilder.
- Value:
- Priceless
- Donor:
- CareerBuilder

Nintendo Wii Accessory Bundle
- Description:
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cBizSoft has donated a Nintendo Wii Accessory Bundle, which includes the following items:
-Nintendo Wii system (system, remote controller, nunchuck, stand, sensor, and Wii Sports)
-Wii Charge Station (Dual port rapid recharging dock, two rechargeable NiMH battery packs, rubberized battery covers, and 6-foot power cable. *Does not include additional remote controllers)
-1 additional Wii Nunchuck Controller
-Wii Play with Remote - Value:
- $375
- Donor:
- cBizSoft, Inc.

Reference Checks and 360 Feedback
- Description:
- We’re happy to announce two cool items for the silent auction, generously donated by Yves Lermusi and the whole Checkster team.
Checkster is donating two great services for auction. The first item is a 10-pack of online automated reference checks, valued at $450.
The second item is a 10-pack of a short 360-feedback review for the whole team, valued at $650.
Check out Checkster at www.checkster.com for more information.
- Value:
- $650
- Donor:
- Checkster

3-pack of Video Job postings
- Description:
- Climber.com will partner with your organization to create and distribute compelling video content for three positions of your choice.
-Be one of the first companies to take advantage of this targeted, cutting-edge approach to reaching millions of unique candidates.
-Unparalleled distribution across 45 video sharing websites
-Automatically search-engine-optimizes jobs to attract better candidates
-Actively markets your postings to relevant candidate audiences - Value:
- $4500
- Donor:
- Climber

ResumeFinder
- Description:
- ResumeFinder is a passive candidate sourcing tool that searches for resumes from Internet communities, free resume sites, social networking sites, and more using Google, Yahoo, Live, Altavista, and AlltheWeb.
- Value:
- $349
- Donor:
- eGrabber

ResumeGrabber Pro
- Description:
- ResumeGrabber Pro is a resume import tool which captures resumes from job boards, search engines, Outlook folders, and system folders, and parses the contact details available in resumes and transfers them to an applicant tracking system. It also displays resumes in an easy to view grid for quick screening purpose.
- Value:
- $495
- Donor:
- eGrabber

Five $100 Gas Cards
- Description:
- For all you bike riders and Prius owners, this won’t be all that exciting. But for the rest of us, who couldn’t use some tax-deductible gas? Bid on these gas cards and support the kids while buying something you are going to buy anyway.
- Value:
- $500
- Donor:
- ERE Media, Inc.

$500 Marriott Hotels & Resort Credit
- Description:
- After making hundreds of new contacts and leaving ERE Expo with pages and pages of notes and new ideas you are going to need a vacation! Bid on this $500 credit towards your next stay at any Marriott Resort & Hotel anywhere in the world to help you out?
- Value:
- $500
- Donor:
- ERE Media, Inc.

Three-Month Full Recruiting Membership
- Description:
- ExecuNet is donating a three-month full recruiting membership: Unlimited postings, unlimited searches, or ExecuNet Talent Bank and Member Network, monthly educational webinars, and industry updates on key market trends and recruiting best practices.
- Value:
- $800
- Donor:
- ExecuNet

La Quinta Golf Getaway
- Description:
- 3-Night Stay at Casa de Amigos. Casa de Amigos is a stunning, tastefully decorated home on a huge private lot, overlooking the eighth green, the fairway and the lake on the Jack Nicklaus Private Golf Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California. A private pool, spa and fire pit allow you to enjoy warm afternoons and evenings outdoors. With 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms and two separate living areas in a beautiful, nearly 3,000 square foot home, you can enjoy and entertain friends, family and clients. This gorgeous Palm Springs area home is in a gated community within minutes of many golf courses, restaurants, shops, spas, and more!
- Value:
- $1500
- Donor:
- FutureResume.com and GreenJobInterview.com
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Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques

- Description:
- What’s Better: The Phone or the Internet? The answer: with this auction item, it doesn’t matter which is better. You’re going to get the Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques self-paced course, with an unlimited 90-day license. You’ll learn powerful, proven, yet mostly little-known methods, tools, and resources to unearth active and passive prospects of any skillset, industry, location, level, etc., most of which are completely free.
On top of that, you’ll get a comprehensive phone sourcing module.
Value: $448.60
Glenn Gutmacher (glenn@recruiting-online.com, 508-930-9391, www.recruiting-online.com) is the donor.
- Value:
- $448.60
- Donor:
- Glenn Gutmacher

Kate Spade Handbag
- Description:
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iCIMS’ client Liz Claiborne has donated a $375 Kate Spade handbag with interior center zip pocket, double slide pockets and zip pocket; interior zip divider pocket; 14-karat light gold-plated hardware; signature dot cotton lining; exterior pocket with license plate signature slide closure.
- Value:
- $375
- Donor:
- iCIMS

A one year subscription to Get Better Hires from Improved Experience.
- Description:
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Get Better Hires™ is a real-time feedback portal that provides critical insight into why and how candidates and new employees become more or less engaged with your company during the selection, hiring and onboarding process. Do you know, for example…
-What are the earliest impressions of your company for those you hire, and for those you don’t?
-How is your business reputation or company culture perceived by non- or new-employees?
-Are your jobs and pay really market-competitive?
-In what ways do your recruiters and interviewers engage or disengage potential hires?
-Could your process to hire and onboard employees be more efficient or friendly?
-How do candidates perceive the services of your outsourced vendors?In this 12-month subscription package, you’ll get full access to a dashboard with hundreds of real-time data points across 15 categories of feedback. You’ll also get expert monthly analysis of feedback trends and patterns, talent pool demographics, and hotspots such as diversity, generational perspectives, and employer-brand perception. Use this information to build, support, or improve recruitment and retention strategies and programs for your company.
- Value:
- Maximum value $15,000 (varies with size of business and hiring volume). This offer is for a non-automated version of the software in which the winner agrees to provide email addresses of survey participants on a routinely scheduled basis during the subscription period.
- Donor:
- Improved Experience
- Description:
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Bid on one of three “Ultimate Bacon Lover’s Gift Packs.” It’s bacon-free!
This gift pack includes:
-One bottle of Original Bacon Salt: the zero calorie, zero fat, vegetarian, and kosher seasoning that makes everything taste like bacon.
-All five bottles of Limited Edition holiday flavors of Bacon Salt: Mesquite, Jalapeno, Maple, Applewood, and Cheddar
-Maple Bacon Lip Balm
-One jar of Baconnaise, the Ultimate Bacon Flavored Spread - Value:
- $40
- Donor:
- J&D’s Bacon Salt

Four Job postings and Three Months of Resume Search Access
- Description:
- Four job postings and three months’ of resume search package on JobsInLogistics.com.
After eight years, JobsInLogistics.com remains the only significant career and recruiting board specializing in the Logistics profession. Post jobs on JobsInLogistics.com and target qualified candidates for positions in Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Freight Forwarding, 3PL, Distribution, Warehousing, Inventory Management, Purchasing, and Manufacturing.
- Value:
- $1295
- Donor:
- JobsInLogistics.com

Apple iPod Touch
- Description:
- Juju.com has donated an Apple iPod Touch. Apple has married the iPhone’s revolutionary multi-touch interface to its popular digital media player. So instead of a Click Wheel, you just use your fingers to flick through your music, photos, and video. It’s the first iPod to offer web access.
- Value:
- $300
- Donor:
- Juju

$2500 of services
- Description:
- Up to $2,500 of services to develop pipeline, direct source passive candidates and/or to gain competitive intelligence. Mankuta | Gallagher is the donor.
- Value:
- $2500
- Donor:
- Mankuta | Gallagher

iPod Touch 16GB
- Description:
- Bid on an iPod Touch 16GB with capacity for 3,500 songs/20 hours of video, courtesy of NAS Recruitment Communications.
- Value:
- $300
- Donor:
- NAS Recruitment

Sony Cyber Shot Digital Camera
- Description:
- From Pearson, a $350 value … a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W300 13.6-Megapixel Digital Camera.
- 3x optical zoom
- 2.7” LCD screen
- Dual image stabilizers
- Face detection
- 9-point auto focus - Value:
- $350
- Donor:
- Pearson

David Yurman Bracelet
- Description:
- Peopleclick donated a Medium Oval-Link Chain with sterling silver and yellow gold (18-karat yellow bonded gold) cable and smooth links. 7 1/2″
- Value:
- $495
- Donor:
- Peopleclick

Melting Pot gift card
- Description:
- Riviera Advisors has donated a $100 gift card to The Melting Pot. The largest fondue restaurant in the U.S., you’ll enjoy four courses of dipping apples into chocolate, vegetables into melted cheese, and more.
- Value:
- $100
- Donor:
- Riviera Advisors

Recruiting Leadership Academy
- Description:
- Full tuition to the STARoundtable Corporate Recruiting and Staffing Leadership Academy. Academies will be scheduled in Los Angeles and Chicago in Fall, 2009 (Your choice of location). The Academy is a highly intensive workshop designed for recruiting and staffing leaders which focused on how to lead, motivate, measure, improve and optimize a recruiting team within a corporate environment. The sessions are led by recruiting gurus from Riviera Advisors and are hosted with major universities. (Transportation and hotel accommodations are the responsibility of the participant).
- Value:
- $995
- Donor:
- STARoundtable

Two months’ access to candidate database and five job postings on SnagAJob.com — plus an iPod Shuffle
- Description:
- Two months (One seat with 100 views per day) access to candidate database allows you to search millions of registered job seekers to find the perfect candidate. Five job postings that will appear for one month on SnagAJob.com — the No. 1 source for hourly employment. Plus an orange iPod Shuffle.
- Value:
- $1900
- Donor:
- SnagAJob
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Four Tickets to a 2009 Chicago Cubs Baseball Game

- Description:
- Don’t worry, you won’t have to sing…though Ozzie Osbourne has lowered the bar. All you have to do is enjoy this killer donation from Shaker: 4 Tickets to a 2009 Cubs game, about 20 rows behind home plate. Date TBD.
The Cubbies are in first place - and have played in the Friendly Confines for about 100 years.
- Value:
- $264.00
- Donor:
- Shaker
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Sony Blu-Ray DVD Player (BDPS350)

- Description:
- SilkRoad has donated a Sony Blu-Ray DVD Player (BDPS350). The player features Dolby, TrueHD, and BD-Live compatibility.
- Value:
- $400
- Donor:
- Silkroad
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Bose Noise-Cancelling Headphones

- Description:
- SmartBrief has donated a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, valued at $300. SmartBrief, publisher of concise daily industry news, offers solutions for busy HR managers to cut through the noise and distractions — office chit-chat, coworkers’ phone calls, crying infants next to you, on the plane. With Bose headphones, you’ll hear only what you want, even if all you want to hear is — ahhhh — silence.
- Value:
- $300
- Donor:
- SmartBrief

Apple 8 GB Ipod Touch
- Description:
- iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. With great new applications, now iPod touch is even better. Watch a movie you rented from iTunes. View rich HTML email with graphics and photos displayed inline. Open PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel attachments. With Maps, find your location and get directions from there. See where you are on a map, a satellite image, or a combination of both. Make Web Clips for your Home screen so you can visit your favorite websites in just one tap. Fill up to nine Home screen pages with Web Clips and arrange them however you like. Browse YouTube videos, follow your stocks, check the weather, and take notes. With the new iPod touch, tap into even more.
- Value:
- $300
- Donor:
- Talent Maze

Digital Photo Frame
- Description:
- Taleo has donated an Electronic Digital Frame for home or office.
- Value:
- $100
- Donor:
- Taleo




