Michael Specht

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

Job loss news continues to be bad

November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Recruitment · 1,403 views

Everywhere I turn at the moment there is more and more talk of job losses! it does not seem to matter what your industry is jobs are disappearing quicker that most news rooms can report on them. A quick round up:

Citigroup 50,000 worldwide after four quarters of heavy losses.
BHP Billiton looks like it will have [...]

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eRecruitment systems and your employer brand

September 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Branding, Communication, Recruitment · 1,487 views

Today while conducting some research I found what looks on the surface as a bug within PageUp’s PageUp People application, but turns out is not. (For international readers PageUp is the leading eRecruitment vendor in Australia.)
I was reviewing the Optus careers web site and went to review a listing of jobs and I opened the [...]

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