Michael Specht

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

Unique Video Usage

January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Branding, Communication, Recruitment, Video · 1,802 views

If you have been following some of the other HR and Recruitment blogs in Australia there has been a bit of talk about using video, even I joined the discussions with a bit of a technology review.
Today I want to highlight a fairly unique use of YouTube Video. (If you are in marketing circles you [...]

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Are careers website critical to success??

August 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 1,577 views

I was beaten to the punch by Kelly Magowan with her post yesterday as to why you need to upgrade your corporate careers site to be successful with social media. This was my flow on post from the Corporate Careers Website Report I released on Wednesday night.
However Kelly only scratched the surface of the issue.
Next, it [...]

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ATC: James Elliott National Recruitment Director Deloitte

May 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments · General · 2,217 views

James Elliott took the stage after lunch to give us a run down on Deloitte’s (Update: to clarify this is only the Australian operation and does not reflect the US operations.) recruitment function, specifically their Sourcing function. James indicated he was a little concerned about presenting, mainly because of the real time feedback that would [...]

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Recruiting or Branding failure?

August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Recruitment, Social Networks · 2,214 views

I read a article (thanks Plugger) about how the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment need to recruit over 500 firefighters for the coming season. So I clicked on the link to read to full story and read a good story about their recruiting needs.
Mr Rash said the love of the bush and the opportunity [...]

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