Michael Specht

I have been pondering the future.
What is next? Do you know? If so please do tell.
A number of years ago I pondered what was next from blogging and podcasting, neither of these forms have really survived in the way the were circa 2005/2006. Let alone what happened to MySpace, Friendster, Orkut…
Let’s look at the user [...]

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While we are still in the first few weeks of the new year I through it would be good to look at come of the things you should focus on during 2010 to.
In no particular order here is my list of 10 things to do in 2010:

Have an HR/Talent Management/Recruiting application blueprint
The IT environment in [...]

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I sit here typing this post during the first week of the second decade in the 21st century however some many organisation’s HR strategies are still stuck in the 20th century.
Let me explain.
Today most organisational HR strategy is based on a asynchronous model where the organisation does something and at a later time employees react. For [...]

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With us rapidly coming to the end of the first decade of the 21st century I thought it might be fun to look forward another 10 years to see what a day in the life of an HR manager might be like.
(First I am not a fiction writer so bear with me. Second while 2020 [...]

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If you have been following this blog for a while you would know that I am always looking for the next thing. I have been doing the same thing with using social media in business.

Social Recruiting has a lot of  buzz at the moment. How do I know there is a buzz, well 200+ people [...]

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