Thanks to James Farmer for beginning a series of tutorials in WordPress, the first is on “How do you format WordPress posts?”. While this is fantastic, it got me thinking. WHY? Why do we need a tutorial? I must admit I was a little taken back by the basic-ness of the posting features. But then,Continue reading “WordPress Tutorials”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
The power of blogs
I had a another interesting experience today. An email from a new company wanting me to review their new service in my blog. Why is this interesting? For several reasons. Firstly GMail picked up the email request as spam, I have written before about “business spam“, and got myself in hot water with ResumeFit, aContinue reading “The power of blogs”
Quality of Hire some measures
Sam Greengard from Workforce.com interviewed (registration required) Kevin Wheeler of Global Learning Resources who provided several different measures around the quality of a hire. The high level listing is:- Goal Completion Capacity Motivation Knowledge and Skills General Performance Problem-Solving Skills Experiential Contributions Customer Compatibility Work-Group Compatibility Organizational Compatibility Change/Learning Attitude While I personally think theContinue reading “Quality of Hire some measures”
Can I have some private time?
Following up on my posts from last week around workplace privacy. I was reading a similar post from Michael Fitzgibbon (Thoughts from a Management Lawyer) on the whole issue of Workplace Privacy in the US. Of interest were the statistics which while are US centric I have a feeling probably would transpose fairly well toContinue reading “Can I have some private time?”
My feed
It occurred to me while in the shower this morning that when I changed theme’s I did not modify the feeds to point to FeedBurner. While WordPress has an RSS feed which I see some of you have subscribed to I prefer to use FeedBurner. I have now tried to update all of the feedContinue reading “My feed”
Corporate blogging and knowledge
Hugh Macleod has drawn a very simple picture what has lots of words to go with it that describes the beauty of corporate blogging. So where is the knowledge bit? By breaking through the membranes that Hugh discusses help the overall communication within an organisation, and opens the gates to the movement of knowledge toContinue reading “Corporate blogging and knowledge”
New HR Metrics?
Tom Lutz (from HR for the leader in you) has written an interesting post on HR Metrics where he highlights some of the concerns with some measures and provides a listing of leading edge metrics from Saratoga/PricewaterhouseCoopers. The list of his leading edge metrics are below:- 1. Percent of High Potentials in the Talent Pool.Continue reading “New HR Metrics?”
Patients in USA hospitals blog
ComputerWorld had an interesting article about a hospital what is trying to use blogs as a form of marketing. I found the last comment very interesting, would complaints be vetted, and doesn’t that go completely against the whole transparent nature of blogs? “This is not a forum to discuss politics or anything like that,” WallContinue reading “Patients in USA hospitals blog”
Trials and tribulations of technology
It seems Jobster is having some teething issues with getting recruiters to think strategically. They seem to be having difficulty in getting traction within organisations, they can grab a couple of strategic recruiters but the line recruiters are a challenge. As I had mentioned in my review in April the change management was probably theContinue reading “Trials and tribulations of technology”
Privacy in the workplace
A day after NSW banned employers from monitoring emails Victoria and South Australia are looking to do the same thing. Over the last 9 months I have written about these moves here, here, here and here. This is a really interesting topic that has significant potential to cause all sorts of ER/IR issues within theContinue reading “Privacy in the workplace”
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