Michael Specht

During my presentation yesterday on social media in the workplace at RecruitTech I spoke briefly about the “Facebook Five” and felt I would expand on my comments here.
In summary six (it was five) NSW prison officers are being threatened with being fired over comments they made on a Facebook page “Suggestion to help Big Ron [...]

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First you need to know what a social graph is, simple put by Brad Fitzpatrick the “social graph” is “the global mapping of everybody and how they’re related”, therefore your social graph is a mapping of everyone and how they are related to you.
So what does this have to do with candidates? Well I am glad [...]

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First let me say this is not new people have been losing their jobs for years based on what they publish online, it is now the services being used are changing slightly.
Last month Virgin Atlantic sacked 13 cabin crew for criticizing the airline and its passenger on Facebook.
The action follows an investigation into the remarks posted on [...]

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Yesterday while I was in the middle of my PRINCE2 course I ducked outside (literally outside in the freezing Melbourne wind) for 30 minutes to participate in The Scoop podcast for MIS Australia hosted by Mark Jones. The topic Generation V, or generation virtual. I was a little uncertain what to expect as the fellow [...]

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Once again more HR data has been stolen, and guess what again it was not encrypted!
This time Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an HR outsourcing vendor, had data for many of it’s clients stolen in a burglary on May 26. The clients affected include Google and CBS’ CNET Networks. The data stolen in the burglary included [...]

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