Michael Specht

A blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and recruitment.

ATC Social Media Conference

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Branding, HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 1,706 views

We are coming to the end of the early bird discount period for the joint event between Inspecht and ATC Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution. while the early bird discount is good, register 2 or more delegates and you get an even better deal.
So why attend?

Listen to Australian case studies from Ernst & Young and [...]

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Social media strategy webinar

September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,262 views

The folks at Recruiter Daily have asked me to do a short webinar for their readers about social media and recruitment called “Plan your social media strategy – connect, attract and recruit“. The event will be 11am September 17 and you can register online now, even if you can’t make the live event the presentation [...]

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Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution?

August 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Recruitment, Video · 2,270 views

Back in June I shipped myself off to the first Social Recruiting Summit at Google HQ in San Francisco. On my return I was approached by the team from Australasian Talent Conference (Trevor Vas, Horace Chai, and Kevin Wheeler) to see if we could pull off a similar event here in Australia.
So on 3rd December [...]

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Michael is MIA

July 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal · 1,463 views

Irony is after 5 years of blogging I am so busy with other activities I have not blogged for 10 days. Right now things are not going to get any better. I leave tomorrow for my annual ski holiday and will not be back until August 2nd.
What has been keeping me from blogging?

Major project for [...]

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Social Media In the Workplace

May 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments · HR Management, Recruitment, Social Networks · 3,550 views

Below are my notes for the talk I have given over the last week on social media in the workplace. I admit they do not flow as an essay as they supplemented my slides, hopefully you can derive my messages.
Social Media in the Workplace       
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For nearly 20 years geeks have been operating in [...]

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