Michael Specht

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

ATC Social Media Event

December 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Enterprise 2.0, Recruitment, Video · 1,719 views

Yesterday was the first joint ATC/Inspecht event looking specifically at the usage of social media in recruitment. My personal opinion is that overall the day was a great success, although we will wait for the formal feedback from participants to know their feelings. Here are some of my thoughts and observations.

Having over 130 people in [...]

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ATC Social Media Conference

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Branding, HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 1,685 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: A Recruitment Revolution?

August 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Recruitment, Video · 2,250 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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Thoughts from Web Directions 2008

September 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Enterprise 2.0, Future, Social Networks, Technology · 1,368 views

On Thursday and Friday last week I attended Web Directions South 2008, my first web only conference in a while. Overall it was a good event, but like most conferences there were some up & downs. Probably the biggest two downs were the opening Key Note and the lack of coffee on arrival on Friday [...]

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