Michael Specht

Over the last few months one of the side projects I have been working on is JobSeekr.  The idea come about while working with Jeremy Samuel and Riges Younan on their products 2Vouch and JobGenie. While 2Vouch and JobGenie are focused on finding the best people for a role we recognised that there was not a good place for [...]

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There are some major changes taking place within the recruitment software market at the moment. Changes that have the ability to remove vendors such as Taleo from being “top of the pops”.
What is it? Intelligent matching of jobs to social networks.
Both Australian job referral vendors 2Vouch and Hoojano do this but not to the level that [...]

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Last week I was meeting with Riges Younan and Jeremy Samuel from 2Vouch to discuss Riges’s presentation for Australiasian Talent Conference in Auckland, topic being “The Evolution of Social Recruiting”. To develop the presentation Riges wanted feedback from the recruiting community on their thoughts, ideas and case studies. To quote Riges:
I need your help to shape, contribute and assist [...]

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Today Australian job referral tool, Hoojano, announced a partnership with MYOB under the banner of StaffSearcher. An interesting move by both organisations, release here. 
MYOB is moving more and more into SaaS offerings to small and medium business, they even own a web hosting business! Providng these businesses a cost effective method of recruiting candidates is [...]

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Following last weeks interview with Kevin Howard from Jobs in HR today we have another local recruitment expert Brett Iredale. Brett runs the successful automated job posting system JobAdder and as you will see from the interview an early adopter of technology. While the last few interviews have been focused on recruiting I am working to [...]

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