Michael Specht

Over the last 2 weeks I have been giving a series of presentations looking at how social media (and Enterprise 2.0) can drive employee engagement. While the slides are available on slideshare for download I wanted to give a bit of context.
As part of preparing the presentation I came across a presentation by Susan Scrupski [...]

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Finally part four!
In case you missed the reason we are here have a look at the last few posts. In the first post we looked at laying a foundation for the discussion and about how social media allows you access to a unique view on a candidate’s character. In part two I discussed the issue of cultural fit [...]

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This is part three in my four part series on social media and background checking.
In the first post we looked at laying a foundation for the discussion and about how social media allows you access to a unique view on a candidate’s character. In part two I discussed the issue of cultural fit and it’s [...]

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This is part two in my four part series on social media and background checking.
In the first post we looked at laying a foundation for the discussion and about how social media allows you access to a unique view on a candidate’s character.
Now another method of assessing character is through a process HR calls cultural [...]

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Right now the Australian online recruitment community have started some very health debate/discussion about the concept of using the content from social media as part of background checking. All started by Riges Younan from Peerlo*.
Most of the discussion from the agency perspective is focusing around the ethics of using what is in the public domain [...]

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