Steve Rubel talks on a Fortune article that states Sun employees will soon be required to agree to specific guidelines on blogging. Sounds like a good thing. Maybe. Does this mean soon Sun will require employees to sign a document allowing them to talk about work at a BBQ on Sunday afternoon, or at theContinue reading “Sun requiring employees to sign guidelines on blogging”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Technology decisions and other items
The Electronic Recruiting Exchange has an article by Kevin Wheeler on Recruiting technology decisions, while focused on recruitment software all of his point are relevant to any technology decision. Human Resources Magazine has several items this issue of interest. Firstly on next generation measurement systems, while it does not provide a lot of detail itContinue reading “Technology decisions and other items”
Wireless hotspots
I am continually looking for access points at a reasonable price, while there are lots of access points at this stage they are a bit on the pricey side. Nicole Manktelow from Icon had this great intro into hot spots and Sydney in the SMH in Jan 2004. In here you can find example pricingContinue reading “Wireless hotspots”
Internet @ Work survey
I just received this survey and thought it is very relevant to some of the discussions going on at the moment. The survey came through from AHRI publicising their next event in October. I would recommend that you fill the survey in as the more input the better the results.
Google is at it again
Slashdot has this great reference to another “unique” Google recruiting tool. The interesting thing is if you look at the test they are definitely looking for a certain type of person.
Recruiting via your blog
For the last 7 months or so two of Microsoft’s recruiters from the Microsoft Core Technical Recruiting team (the “Moon Gals) have been blogging away with a variety of posts. Based on the number of comments (1795) and trackbacks (281) based on only 154 posts, they have a significant readership, me included. Today’s post isContinue reading “Recruiting via your blog”
Use Google to define a word
Ok, maybe I am bit slow or maybe I just don’t have the time to learn all of the shortcuts in Yahoo & Google. However this one I will use. The Future of Google has shown me how to get Google to define a word, fantastic.
The perfect HR search
There is discussion going on at the moment about the Perfect Search, referring to the results provided by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and others. Most of this seems to have steemed from John Battelle asking the question “What is the Perfect Search” as he pens the final chapter in his new book. JeremyContinue reading “The perfect HR search”
User help & documentation
After a few hours of working with WebWorks Publisher is seems to do everything I need, whew I feel better now!
Creating help files
I do not often write on the weekends however today is different. As all software vendors we need to produce documentation for our users, and today I have been looking at how we can convert our Microsoft Word based documents into something more “online and real time”. My requirements for a tool/process are fairly straightContinue reading “Creating help files”
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