Michael Specht

Industry heavy weights Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler will be releasing their 9th Annual Source of Hire report on Friday US time on the CareerXRoads web site. I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy by Gerry.
Once again the reports details where corporations in the US found their employees during 2009, this year they look at 176,420 [...]

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It has been an interesting week or so since Phillip and I released the sources of talent report for Australia. We have had both positive and negative feedback, which is to be expected.
Some of the commentary available online:

Gerry Crispin
Alice Snell
Ross Clennett
Six Figures
Peerlo

I would like to review some of the concerns raised over the accuracy of [...]

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Back in April I had one of my many wild ideas, undertake a sources of hire survey for Australia, I mean how hard can it be?
The idea was triggered by a post from Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent so after chatting over a few days we decided to join forces and get a survey done.
The [...]

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On September 18 in Canberra I will be speaking at RecruitTECH with a host of other people. What is RecruitTECH?
The RecruitTECH conference will provide delegates with an insight into the future of recruitment and how technology will increasingly impact upon the sourcing of employees in coming years.
Themes to be covered during the conference include:  the use of [...]

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Over the last couple of months I have been working with Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent to look at the most successful channels for finding talent in Australia. Our initial thought was how hard could it be to pull a survey together and send it to a few people. We were a little mistaken, but [...]

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