Michael Specht

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

User Generated Competency Maps

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · HR Management, Knowledge Management · 1,416 views

Thomas Otter, Gartner Analyst by day cyclist by night, posted on his Gartner blog last week about the new XING Competency Card and how it raises questions around the need for “complex, expensive, poorly maintained HR competency management applications behind the firewall”.
The competency card allow you to add skills to your XING profile (think a LinkedIn [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:····

PageUp People: Integrated Talent Management

August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recruitment, Technology · 2,571 views

What is Integrated Talent Management (ITM)?
Well that was the question posed at this morning’s breakfast briefing session run by PageUp People to launch their new white paper, “ITM – The Evolution”. Their answer:
Credit:

[Read more →]

Tags:···········

Are you adapting your services to stay relevant?

January 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Branding, Recruitment · 1,318 views

An old saying by Heraclitus a Greek philosopher that “Nothing endures but change”. If this was true in 500 BC, then today if you are not preparing for change you are dead in the water. Period!
Today I was reading a Gartner research report by Thomas Otter, aka Vendorprisey, The Effects of Social Software on Your Employer [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·····

Year End != Performance Management

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Technology · 1,362 views

Today I was catching up on some of my feeds and noticed many of the major HR technology related blogs I follow were discussing performance management, for example Jason, Meg, Justin and, it even gets a mention on Thomas’s blog. So I felt I would get in on the game.
So let’s start at the beginning, what [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···