Michael Specht

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

Meet Jobs in HR founder Kevin Howard

November 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Interviews, Recruitment · 1,861 views

Last month I posted an interview with an internal recruiter from Oracle Australia, David Talamelli, and decided this will become a regular feature. I have always wanted to profile interviews on the blog however up until nowI did not feel Australia had enough of a local online market to generate interesting posts. That has changed.
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Tips for laying off employees in a social media world

October 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, HR Management, New Media, Social Networks · 5,256 views

Over the weekend Techcrunch posted about the layoffs traking place due to the economic downturn. There are two main themes in the post; first some of the layoffs are clearing out of dead wood and the other being it is hard to keep layoffs a secret when everyone is a publisher.
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New job site for startups

July 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Recruitment · 4,040 views

Over the weekend I saw on Techcrunch that a new job site for startups in the US was launched, Startuply. There are a few of interesting things here. Firstly it is not really a new site more a re-launch of Jowba, secondly they have taken funding and support from Y Combinator, finally they have a [...]

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