Michael Specht

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 take [...]

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This is the third instalment in my look at the hype around social recruiting, if you have missed them see the intro, parts 1 & 2.
HR/Recruiters should focus on ensuring their operational service delivery is excellent instead of creating unrealistic expectations that social recruiting will save them. Like any business there is no point trying to work [...]

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Following on from the 52 social media ideas for HR I have pulled together a few ideas on ways to improve your organisation’s recruitment strategy. They are based around seven key principles

Transparency
Conversation
Wisdom of Crowds
Data is Key
Speed
Reuse
Rich User Experience

Here is a the slide show for you:
Designing Your Social Media Recruitment Strategy  
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Launching their public beta today, September 1, is Australia’s newest social recruiting service called 2Vouch. (Disclosure: I have done some work for 2Vouch.) Having been in private alpha testing over the last month or so the Melbourne based company is for the first time allowing the public access to their service. The best way to [...]

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