Michael Specht

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

Sources of Talent in Australia

September 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recruitment · 1,666 views

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.
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ATC: James Elliott National Recruitment Director Deloitte

May 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments · General · 2,217 views

James Elliott took the stage after lunch to give us a run down on Deloitte’s (Update: to clarify this is only the Australian operation and does not reflect the US operations.) recruitment function, specifically their Sourcing function. James indicated he was a little concerned about presenting, mainly because of the real time feedback that would [...]

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10 Recruiting trends for 2009

October 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Recruitment · 8,151 views

As the world economies seems to be collapsing around us what will be the best practices in recruiting for 2009? Will video resumes be the killer app? Will niche job boards take over from the big boards? Will social media be the killer app?
Nope, none of these alone will get you the best candidates. Sorry.
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