Michael Specht

At the upcoming ATC Social Media conference (early bird prices until 30 September) I will be talking briefly about mobile recruiting. A topic I know is a little strange to some people, but I think effective use of mobile technology is going to become a critical part of a recruiters toolkit. Let’s face it mobile [...]

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Last month Watson Wyatt released their 2009 HR Technology Trends Report. So I grabbed my credit card and laid down US$45 to get a copy so I could see what they had to say.
Some thoughts:

The report is very hard to compare with their 2007 HR Technology Trends Report as the format has [...]

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Following yesterday’s post on future recruiting technology, which looking back should have read future talent management technology, here is an example of thing I am seeing in the market.
SAP has built a Social Network Analyzer prototype for inside the organisation. (Hat tip James Governor.)
It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships. It provides the missing [...]

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I read a article (thanks Plugger) about how the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment need to recruit over 500 firefighters for the coming season. So I clicked on the link to read to full story and read a good story about their recruiting needs.
Mr Rash said the love of the bush and the opportunity [...]

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At the beginning of July Graduate Careers Australia released a series of reports on what university graduates are thinking and how these thoughts match those of employers. The survey had 32,000 responses over a 9 week period in mid 2007.
The highlights of the report are available in the press release however I have reproduced some [...]

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