Michael Specht

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

Entries Tagged as 'HRIS'

Justifying Social Networks?

August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Social Networks · 2,467 views

UPDATE: I changed the title as I hated it, don’t even like the new one but it is better.
For some of my new readers I suspect this post is a bit “old-skool” in style.
Jason Corsello from The Human Capitalist blog wrote an interesting piece the other day proposing that maybe HR could shepherd social networking [...]

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Technology is still failing to meet the needs of HR

June 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment · 1,976 views

Sorry this is a major rant, I don’t have time to fully explore the whole issues but I had to blog about it anyway.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide released a press statement overnight that concerns me greatly and leaves me to believe that either their research is wrong or technology has fundamentally let down HR over the [...]

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Cyber attacks, SaaS, SOA and your business

June 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Digital Identity, HRIS, Technology · 1,370 views

Over the last month or so Estonia (a small Baltic nation) has been under attack, not a traditional military attack but a cyber attack. The NY Times provides a good run down (via Kim Cameron) of what has been going on.
When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet [...]

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Inside out, back to front and open recruiting

June 4th, 2006 · No Comments · HRIS, Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 1,829 views

Rob Merrill over at GoodRecruits has a taken several ideas that are brewing across the blogosphere and produced an interesting business idea.
Jobster, but distributed…
Rob feel we all need to get into Microformats, Microformat Search engines, social networks, XFN (or would RapLeaf be just as good?) mash them all together and create a distributed referral network.
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AHRI Victorian HRIS SIG Discussion Forum

May 5th, 2006 · No Comments · HRIS · 7,463 views

The Victorian HRIS Special Interest Group is running a discussion forum to review HR systems over the next 10 years. Discussion forums provide an informal and flexible face to face environment for people who are interested in HR systems to meet, discuss and network around a specific topic. We will not have keynote speakers, presentations, [...]

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More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?

April 11th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Enterprise 2.0, Future, HRIS, RSS · 2,115 views

(Yes I know I am flogging a dead horse.)
Systematic Viewpoints has provided his opinion/views/position on HR, SOA and Web 2.0, within which he has questioned how to use RSS for an integrated worklist and poses several questions. All very important and shows a snippet of the issues/concerns that need to be resolved, I have tried [...]

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Wiring the web and organisations

April 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Future, HRIS, RSS, Technology · 2,445 views

Following the recent posts on RSS, Web 2.0 and the impact on HR vendors I was listening to the Gillmor Gang talk with Ray Ozzie CTO of Microsoft on the Live Clipboard and it got me thinking.

Live Clipboard allows you to copy and paste structured data to and from a web site or your PC. If you are like me your immediate reaction is huh? But after thinking it through for a few minutes I started to understand what he was getting at.

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Computerworld article on HR-XML

April 8th, 2006 · No Comments · HRIS, Technology · 1,857 views

An article from ComputerWorld Australia on the benefits of using HR-XML for data exchange, oh, and I am one of the people interviewed for the story :-).
I was called during the week about the article, about the same time as the discussion between Thomas and I was going on around HR and Web 2.0.
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A great discussion underway

April 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments · HRIS, RSS · 2,045 views

Thomas has responsed to my post on HR, web 2.0 and RSS.
A great conversation, I would be interested in Double Dub’s view on the whole matter.
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Looking for a job in HRIS look no further

March 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · HRIS, Recruitment · 1,524 views

Systematic is looking for an employee, but not just any employee you must work with him full time in NY.
He is looking for an Employee Portal Operations Manager it is a business technology role, not a development or infrastructure role.
Candidate must be highly motivated, customer-focused, have a high energy level, and balance multiple priorities. Must [...]

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