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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Four quick thoughts

February 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Branding, Recruitment, Technology · 1,111 views

I have been meaning to write an earth shattering post here for a while, but I guess that will have to wait a bit longer. In the meantime here are four quick thoughts to keep you going:

Honesty in a resume is important even when your brackground is not the most attractive, Drug Smugglers Resume.
Want to [...]

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Change management and technology implementation

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Change Management · 1,904 views

For many years I have felt that change management has been one of the most underrated and overlooked component during technology implementation. (For the IT folks out there I am NOT talking about change control I am taking about the people and organisation aspects.) I have been involved in change management from several perspectives and [...]

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