Michael Specht

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

ATC Social Media Conference

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Branding, HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 1,685 views

We are coming to the end of the early bird discount period for the joint event between Inspecht and ATC Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution. while the early bird discount is good, register 2 or more delegates and you get an even better deal.
So why attend?

Listen to Australian case studies from Ernst & Young and [...]

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Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution?

August 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Recruitment, Video · 2,250 views

Back in June I shipped myself off to the first Social Recruiting Summit at Google HQ in San Francisco. On my return I was approached by the team from Australasian Talent Conference (Trevor Vas, Horace Chai, and Kevin Wheeler) to see if we could pull off a similar event here in Australia.
So on 3rd December [...]

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RecruitTECH September 2009

July 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Recruitment · 1,475 views

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 use of [...]

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Telstra’s social media policy

April 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Digital Identity, HR Management, Social Networks · 4,798 views

Yesterday Telstra was the first major Australian corporation to publicly release it’s social media policy. Called guardrails to help employees navigate the world of social media the policy is defined around three concepts, the 3 R’s; Representing, Responsibility, and Respect.
After the last few weeks I think both employees, management and stakeholders at Telstra will be [...]

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Your help is needed

November 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Enterprise 2.0, HR Management, HRIS · 1,614 views

About a week ago I had one of my wild ideas, organise an HR and Enterprise 2.0 conference in Melbourne at the beginning of 2009. Over the last week I have been pulling together some figures and making contact with people to see if they would be interested in speaking or attending. The response so [...]

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