Michael Specht

A growth area for both agency recruiters and internal functions is that of sourcing and over the last few years the availability of tools to source candidates have changed dramatically. A decade ago to undertake the sourcing of a hard to find candidate involved a lots of phone calls and a really good contact list. [...]

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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 [...]

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Over the last few days I have published a number of posts summarising the sessions at ATC that I attended. However I wanted to pull together an overall summary of my thoughts from the event. This was my first ATC, mainly as I had now been in the position to attend before due to my previous [...]

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Over the last few months one of the side projects I have been working on is JobSeekr.  The idea come about while working with Jeremy Samuel and Riges Younan on their products 2Vouch and JobGenie. While 2Vouch and JobGenie are focused on finding the best people for a role we recognised that there was not a good place for [...]

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Yesterday I was lucky (or unlucky depending on your point of view) to be invited onto the Recruiting Animal Show. The Recruiting Animal is Michael Kelemen from Canada. Michael holds a weekly live show for people to call in to talk recruiting. I was on the show with Australian recruiters Dan Naroo, and Ross Clennett. There [...]

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