Michael Specht

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

Social Recruiting: Is the hype over yet?

June 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Recruitment · 2,063 views

Next week I head to the US for the Social Recruiting Summit a one day extravaganza being held at the Googleplex in Mountain View. But as I sit here in wintery Melbourne pondering the future I am wondering when Social Recruiting will fall off the top of the Gartner Hype-curve? It will fall the trick will be [...]

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Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing what is it & must you have it?

November 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · HRIS, Recruitment, Technology · 2,674 views

Today I want to discuss the latest hype in the HR technology space, Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing. Now the terms utility computing and grid computing have been around for a while now, however cloud computing is areasonable new term.
First up they are not the same thing! They can be related but they are not the same.
Let me start with utility computing. [...]

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