Michael Specht

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

Plans for 2013

January 26th, 2013 · No Comments · Branding, Personal, Recruitment · 1,984 views

Just a short update and a small reflection. At this stage nothing set in stone, still talking to a few people and looking at the jobs on offer. My review of next steps has me looking in two different directions both equally interesting; IT project management ideally in HR Technology (either vendor or customer) or [...]

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ATC Social Media Presentation

December 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Branding, Communication, Engagement, Recruitment, Social Networks · 12,359 views

Here is my presentation from the ATC Social Media event. My main messages that I hope people took away were: Using social media for marketing is ok, but engagement and community is better Engagement and community is harder than just a Twitter account or Facebook Social Media is not easy, nor is it free True [...]

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Who owns your brand in the social media world?

February 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 10,663 views

Tomorrow morning I am doing a presentation for MyCareer and some of their clients looking at the wonderful topic of: Who owns your brand in a social media world An interesting topic some might think more interesting have a job board promote social media, more on that later. While I have a large amount of [...]

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Social Media for Recruitment

August 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 11,464 views

One of the things that has been going on in the background for the last couple of months has been the building of a social media for recruitment training program, in partnership with InsideJob. The program consists of three modules; one hour webinar, 1 day introduction and 2 day advance course and is structured to [...]

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Mobile Recruiting

August 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Recruitment, Social Networks · 11,346 views

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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