Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from March 2005

More on business spam (unsolicited email)

March 28th, 2005 · 5 Comments · General · 1,532 views

A couple of days ago I posted about business spam and where it fits within my framework. I posted about ResumeFit and a couple of emails I received from Tom Schmidt the CEO. Well it was not really spam as it was not sent indiscriminately to multiple people, just to me. As such Tom actually [...]

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Work life balance do you have it

March 26th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management · 1,189 views

A couple of interesting things passed under my nose today. Firstly I saw from Scoble and Steve Rubel that several well known bloggers are trying to get some more blog life balance. Then I was listening to the second ComputerWorld Live show where they were discussing the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) Work Life Balance policy [...]

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JobsBlogCasts

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,145 views

The forward thinking (read cool) Gretchen has released a new podcast called Jobcast where she is interviewing Microsoft employees, managers and recruiters to give us all a first hand understanding of Microsoft from all perspectives. All these cool things almost makes me want to go work for Microsoft… Maybe that is the point [...]

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Business spam

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 2,177 views

This morning I checked my Gmail and found some spam that Google had not caught. Why am I surprised? Because it was actually interesting, relevant and real. I got two emails from Tom Schmidt CEO of ResumeFit.com while the content was interesting and the proposed service might work it is still spam.
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HR and your company’s brand

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Branding, HR Management · 1,310 views

Regina from deep your brand is instilled within your organisation. Very interesting read.
It got me thinking about the different clients I have worked with over the years and which of them had their brand instilled in their HR systems and processes. Some of the best implementations of workplace systems have certainly been in organisations who [...]

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Background checking and recruitment

March 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,280 views

It is strange how things come together and where ideas pop up.
Last week I meet up with some guys from RefSure, a background screening company based in Australia with global reach. I originally meet them several years ago when they were getting set up, pre 9/11. Now business is booming!
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US based Jobs via XML

March 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · General · 857 views

The Indeed Blog has pointed to a real world example of a JobRoll based on their XML API in the same manner that I wrote about recently.
Great to see!
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Another “On The Pod Session?”

March 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · General · 713 views

Hmm just noticed both Mick and Cam pop online at the same time on Skype. Could this mean there is another “On The Pod” coming soon?
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Apparently I am going to be rich

March 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Personal · 748 views

I just received an email (in my Yahoo account) from someone by the name of Patrick Taylor who can gain access to the US$32mil in fund of the late president Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, who died on the 5th of February, 2005. It has been a while since I have been privileged enough to be [...]

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Senator Andrew Bartlett weighs in

March 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, New Media · 1,021 views

Will pointed out a comment from Senator Andrew Barlett on his blog around the recent proposed changes where bloggers will need to provide the names and address details on election related blogs. In fact it seems the Senator Barlett not only reads blogs he has one himself and provides a lengthy review of the issues.
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