Michael Specht

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

Entries from August 2005

Google Talk

August 26th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Technology · 1,175 views

Ok everybody is talking about Google Talk, I even saw it on the mainstream news tonight here in Melbourne! “Oh and yes you can talk for FREE!” is the quote I heard repeated way too many times. It is not really free, you have to pay for bandwidth, you also need broadband to [...]

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Online recruitment - the results…

August 26th, 2005 · 1 Comment · HRIS, Recruitment · 1,247 views

Well yesterday has been and gone and so has the first Victorian AHRI HRIS SIG session (way too many acronyms). The sessions seemed to go down well I was able to run through my presentation in just on 15 minutes.
Reflections.

The audience spent a lot of time writting, this is good
The audience looked [...]

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The candidate experience

August 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,721 views

After working away last night I finished the draft on my presentation for tomorrow morning. My plan is to look at online recruitment from the candidate’s persective. I have pulled together information from several sources including myslef, CareerXRoads, Andrew Marritt, Joel Chessman, Recruiting RoundTable, Dub Dubs, Regina Miller, all who I thank up [...]

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24 hrs in my life

August 23rd, 2005 · 1 Comment · Personal · 1,274 views

It has been an interesting 24 hours in my life. Let me give you the background.
I am currently the convenor for the Victorian HRIS Special Interest Group for AHRI, a group that has not been active in many years. We set up an organising committee around March and have our first public event [...]

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links for 2005-08-22

August 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,203 views

Rss20AndAtom10Compared - Atom Wiki
If you are technically minded have a look at the comparison between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0
(tags: aggregator Atom rss)

Australian IT - Seek exceeds profit forecast (Correspondents in Sydney, AUGUST 22, 2005)
Will it continue? I doubt it unless they reinvent themselves.
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Cheesman’s Online Recruitment Blog: open letter to simplyhired, indeed
Joel [...]

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