Yesterday I was lucky (or unlucky depending on your point of view) to be invited onto the Recruiting Animal Show. The Recruiting Animal is Michael Kelemen from Canada. Michael holds a weekly live show for people to call in to talk recruiting. I was on the show with Australian recruiters Dan Naroo, and Ross Clennett. ThereContinue reading “Talking with the Recruiting Animal”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Benefit of employee engagement
I have written lots of times about employee engagement. Today I saw a great video from Box of Crayons, here it is. Now give all of the doom and gloom around it is very easy to lose sight of the productivity benefits you receive when employees are happy. The secret is once employees areContinue reading “Benefit of employee engagement”
Being an HR Manager in a Web 2.0 company
Many people have commented that there is still a session in the HR Futures Conference without a speaker, could they fill the slot. The issue has not been there was no speaker, more that I had too many speakers to choose from! Over the last month I have been working with several people to finaliseContinue reading “Being an HR Manager in a Web 2.0 company”
Twitter for Jobs a follow up
A short follow up on my post about using Twitter to find a job and find candidates. As a recap, Brandon Mendelson (@BJMendelson) created two hastags, Have A Job? (#HAJ) and Need a job (#NAJ), the details can be found on his blog. I said the real power was you did not need to use Twitter to access the jobsContinue reading “Twitter for Jobs a follow up”
Talent Management in a down market
Reading my feeds, news reports and email lists everyday it would seem that the world is coming to an end. Jobs are being lost, organisations are cutting back, contracts are on hold, revenues are down, generally things are bad. I know personally that business has dried up very quickly in the last 2 months. ImageContinue reading “Talent Management in a down market”
Looking for a job or looking for candidates? Look on Twitter.
A little experiment in recruitment has been kicked off by @BJMendelson on Twitter. Using Twitter to connect job seekers with employers through the use of hastags. Hashtags are a community driven tagging process for adding additional context and metadata to your Twitter. You create a hashtag by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Brandon has createdContinue reading “Looking for a job or looking for candidates? Look on Twitter.”
Succession planning a critical process
Managing your talent is one of the most critical activities an HR professional undertakes. Starting with the workforce plan, the right mix of hires, supporting performance and development, to planning succession which feeds back into your workforce plan. Of these steps succession planning, and workforce planning tend to be overlooked by many organisations. For manyContinue reading “Succession planning a critical process”
Conference update
Just a short post. Early bird registration closed yesterday, if you missed out sorry it is now $400 for the day. Still great value if you compare with many of the other events where you can spend $400 for half a day or even a few hours! I have had a TBD session on the agendaContinue reading “Conference update”
Hoojano in partnership with MYOB
Today Australian job referral tool, Hoojano, announced a partnership with MYOB under the banner of StaffSearcher. An interesting move by both organisations, release here. MYOB is moving more and more into SaaS offerings to small and medium business, they even own a web hosting business! Providng these businesses a cost effective method of recruiting candidatesContinue reading “Hoojano in partnership with MYOB”
HR Futures Conference
Just a short post to let you all know that early bird pricing for the Inspecht HR Futures Conference finishes in 3 days, 15th January. After this you will need to spend an extra A$50 to attend. Remember you can register online, or download the offline order form. REGISTRATION TYPE DATES PRICE Early BirdContinue reading “HR Futures Conference”
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