Sue Polo from Google, Australian readers yes Google HQ, followed Dr Williamson with a fantastic look at not only Google as a corporation but also their staffing challenges. She provided us with so much information I did not get a chance to write many notes as she talked, but here are some of my topContinue reading “ATC: Sue Polo Engineering and Operations Staffing Director, Google”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
ATC: Dr Ian Williamson
Unfortunately the schedule for ATC was changed so I missed the first 30 minutes of Dr Williamson’s presentation, however what I did catch was very very good. Employees are repositories of both human and social capital therefore talent retention is all about relationship management. Dr Williamson (Associate Professor from Melbourne School of Business) talked aContinue reading “ATC: Dr Ian Williamson”
ATC: Gerry Crispin
At the end of the first day Gerry Crispin gave the audience a great run down on revamping their career’s web site. There are four aspects you need to consider when revamping your web site these are: Demographics: How many prospects are there that you can target? Class of Workers: Who are your workers? Source ofContinue reading “ATC: Gerry Crispin”
Can you do the #splits?
There are several interesting services taking shape on Twitter to help the recruitment industry; such as HashJobs, JobFeedr and now Splits.org. Splits.org allows recruiters to share both jobs and candidates and splt the fees. Now Split networks are not new but this one is. Splits.org comes out of the new Recruiting Blogs Labs (does everyoneContinue reading “Can you do the #splits?”
ATC: Naomi Simson, RedBalloon
Up before lunch was Naomi Simson, CEO of RedBalloon, and CEO means Chief Experience Officer. RedBalloon vision, we are changing the face of giving in Australia, the goal is to change employee engagement in Australia by 1%. Given lack of engagement costs Australia $21billion that is a lot of savings. Some thoughts: How can you spendContinue reading “ATC: Naomi Simson, RedBalloon”
ATC: Russell Kronenburg from Pacific Brands
Next up was Russell Kronenburg, Group People and Performance Manager, Pacific Brands. Wow want a fantastic session. Russell provided us with some amazing insights into what Pacific Brands are doing to attract key talent. Pacific Brands had an issue with finding designers, who could take up to 180 days to hire! Russell introduced us to the BarrettContinue reading “ATC: Russell Kronenburg from Pacific Brands”
ATC: Dr John Sullivan
So much was covered in the morning session at ATC I will try and summarise some of my thoughts in a few posts. First for the summary was Dr John Sullivan, and like always he provided a massive amount of information and stirred up the crowd. Here is a summary of his one hour informationContinue reading “ATC: Dr John Sullivan”
CRM in Recruiting
The first session I attended at ATC Sydney 2009 was Master Burnett’s workshop (with the occasional interjection from Dr John Sullivan) on how organisations can benefit from using CRM for talent management. He started by introducing the audience to social media and the changes this is having to the relationships that organisation need to developContinue reading “CRM in Recruiting”
Heading to ATC Sydney
Today I head up to Sydney to attend the Australasian Talent Conference. During my 4 day stay in the harbour city I will be catching up with Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent to discuss our Talent Sources survey (watch this space), attending ATC, speaking for http://inspecht.com.au/speaking/ in the workplace and running the first Sydney JobSeekr Mixer. TheContinue reading “Heading to ATC Sydney”
Key Australian Influencers
John Sumser over at Recruiting Blogs is trying to find the top 100 key influencers in Recruiting, Staffing, HR, HCM and HRTech globally! A big ask I say. John puts forward an interesting point of view: Some people go to a lot of conferences and exert their influence through pure networking. For these folks, influence andContinue reading “Key Australian Influencers”
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