Gretchen from Microsoft has provided a fantasticreal world example of how to effectively use her blog within a recruiting environment. Gretchen and some of her colleagues are looking at cold calling candidates to try and attract “passive candidates”. So before they undertake the exercise she has decided to run a short survey to find outContinue reading “Effective use of recruiting blogs”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Rugby and the English
Ok this is completely off topic and even a bit petty but I don’t really care as I am a huge rugby fan and love stirring the English. Philip Malone directed me to an online voting process being conducted by the London Development Agency who want the public to name the new bridge which willContinue reading “Rugby and the English”
Digital IDs at Cebit
Computerworld has an item today talking about digital identity and how some of the work from organisations like Liberty Alliance were starting to make progress on enhancing security online. While an interesting read, the article really says nothing, I found it filled with PR-type comments and meaningless announcements from big companies. It is sad toContinue reading “Digital IDs at Cebit”
Blogging = Good Career?
Tim Bray from ongoing wrote last week about how blogging can be good, yes good not evil. Basically Tim brings it do to a couple of clear facts. You will have employees who blog Becuase 1 is true then you must have a policy! Tim’s post also gives us 10 reasons why and how bloggingContinue reading “Blogging = Good Career?”
Well I’m back!
I am back from my trip to the Olympic Dam mine out at Roxby Downs. I flew on Qantas from Melbourne to Adelaide and then Rex Air to the Olympic Dam airport, which is really the Roxby Downs airport. The whole trip was an interesting experience, it is about 15 years since I have flownContinue reading “Well I’m back!”
Away
I will not be posting over the next few days as I will be away on business at a mine site, my first visit! Should be very interesting.
Indeed thoughts
Michael sees some flaws with the Indeed system, I however see the potential of their system, with some changes (which I guess could be seen as flaws). Why only search jobs? Why not search the resumes that are on the web and delivery matched candidates to recruiters via RSS as a paid service. Another extensionContinue reading “Indeed thoughts”
PeopleSoft loses local customers
From ComputerWorld:- It seems that second tier vendor Aurion in Australia has picked up a several of high profiled clients. I wonder how many more there are out there? I do know that while I was in the vendor area I spoke to many potential clients who were looking to move away from PeopleSoft.
Aggregated jobs site indeed.com
Slashdot reported overnight on the Job market for developers based on data from indeed. While the results that Slashdot have are interesting if you are a developer, but from an HR/Recruitment perspective it is much more! indeed went live Nov 2004 and aggregates jobs postings from many different sources in reading their FAQ they describeContinue reading “Aggregated jobs site indeed.com”
ResumeWiki Shutdown
Jeremy has had to shutdown ResumeWiki due to wiki spam. This is an unfortunate event, I hope he is able to get it back up and running. ResumeWiki was a great concept Jeremy set up late last year allow job seekers to publish their resume and allow others to provide feedback and change the resumeContinue reading “ResumeWiki Shutdown”
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