Michael Specht

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

10 things to do in 2010

January 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Change Management, Future, HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment, Video · 1,952 views

While we are still in the first few weeks of the new year I through it would be good to look at come of the things you should focus on during 2010 to.
In no particular order here is my list of 10 things to do in 2010:

Have an HR/Talent Management/Recruiting application blueprint
The IT environment in [...]

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Unique job seeking method

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Recruitment · 982 views

I was forwarded an interesting Facebook event invitation today, someone seeking a job!

Here is the deal, our hero today is Paul a recent uni graduate in Engineering majoring in Robotics and Mechatronics and minoring in Mechanical Design Engineering with 18 months professional experience. Paul is having issues getting a job, so he put a call [...]

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Some unrelated thoughts

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Future · 1,299 views

The famous Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up late last week with lots and lots of product announcements and more news stories than I could ever hope to digest. (Not helped by the fact that I have been sick for about 4 days now.)
Anyway here are a few summary items:

If teens are confused by Twitter but [...]

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54 Percent of Companies Have Bad Management

October 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Engagement · 1,926 views

These types of articles really really get me going.
54% of Companies Ban …
I’m sorry but I am not surprised that 77% of employees who had access to Facebook used it during the work day! Ok how many logged onto personal email accounts, made a personal phone call, used their personal mobile phone, had some non-work [...]

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ATC Social Media Conference

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Branding, HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 1,346 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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