Michael Specht

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

Social networking and recruitment

February 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments · General, Recruitment, Social Networks · 2,510 views

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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Hoojano in partnership with MYOB

January 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recruitment · 1,933 views

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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A small but important clarification

November 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,700 views

A couple of days ago an anonymous blog, The Didge, here in Australia posted a fairly length review of the job referral service 2Vouch during which they stated that I am the owner. This is incorrect I have no ownership in the business. 2Vouch are a client of mine and that is all. I did suggest [...]

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2Vouch for your friends and get paid

September 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Recruitment, Social Networks · 1,577 views

Launching their public beta today, September 1, is Australia’s newest social recruiting service called 2Vouch. (Disclosure: I have done some work for 2Vouch.) Having been in private alpha testing over the last month or so the Melbourne based company is for the first time allowing the public access to their service. The best way to [...]

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