Michael Specht

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

Is social media a SCAM for recruiting

June 5th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Recruitment, Social Networks · 2,433 views

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Last week a US recruitment expert Peter Weddle called social media a SCAM for recruiting. He stated that it was a waste of time with no ROI, although he did not use the term ROI. Finally his prediction was that social media will not be the future of recruiting until 2014 while job boards will [...]

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Social networking sites increase employee productivity

November 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Enterprise 2.0, Management, Social Networks · 3,310 views

An interesting piece by David Quach on the ABC News site (Hat Tip @aussienick) about how more people should use Facebook to improve worker productivity. Here is the summary:
Well, while any adverse effect of Facebook on productivity is detrimental to the economy, economic theory also suggests that the economy could be improved if there were [...]

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