Once again a longtime between drinks, however this post might start to demonstrate why. For many months I have felt that something is not right in the world of social media. The problem was I have not been able to put my finger on the issue. I happened to read a post over at SocialContinue reading “Social media and the elephant in the room”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Sourcing in Australia
A growth area for both agency recruiters and internal functions is that of sourcing and over the last few years the availability of tools to source candidates have changed dramatically. A decade ago to undertake the sourcing of a hard to find candidate involved a lots of phone calls and a really good contact list.Continue reading “Sourcing in Australia”
Long time between drinks
Well a long time between blog posts. Why the break? Lots of reasons too many to list really. Anyways. Today I am preparing to judge the Fairfax Employment Media Awards, while I am not (and can’t) mention specific enteries some observations: Big corporate’s are always big corporate’s in everything they do, PowerPoint anyone? Recruitment AdvertisingContinue reading “Long time between drinks”
Who owns your brand in the social media world?
Tomorrow morning I am doing a presentation for MyCareer and some of their clients looking at the wonderful topic of: Who owns your brand in a social media world An interesting topic some might think more interesting have a job board promote social media, more on that later. While I have a large amount ofContinue reading “Who owns your brand in the social media world?”
Is this a waste land?
Well there has not been a lot of movement here, but neither I nor this blog are dead. At this point some of my larger projects are taking a lot of my time and most of what I am doing is not at a point where it can be shared on the blog. Having saidContinue reading “Is this a waste land?”
10 days to go!
Only 10 days to go before the early bird pricing for this year’s ATC Social Media conference expires! If you are thinking of going, and why wouldn’t you, register now to save 20% on your registration. What will you get from coming along? Well other than listening to me natter on about mobile recruiting youContinue reading “10 days to go!”
Social Media for Recruitment
One of the things that has been going on in the background for the last couple of months has been the building of a social media for recruitment training program, in partnership with InsideJob. The program consists of three modules; one hour webinar, 1 day introduction and 2 day advance course and is structured toContinue reading “Social Media for Recruitment”
Mobile Recruiting
At the upcoming ATC Social Media conference (early bird prices until 30 September) I will be talking briefly about mobile recruiting. A topic I know is a little strange to some people, but I think effective use of mobile technology is going to become a critical part of a recruiters toolkit. Let’s face it mobileContinue reading “Mobile Recruiting”
NGA.Net Acquires Acelero for Performance Management
Last night at around 5.30pm I received a call from Penny Elmslie, the marketing manager at NGA.Net about two topics that they were very excited about. First was they had started a blog, second they had purchased a company. While the first piece of news is not that earth shattering for some, I personally feel it isContinue reading “NGA.Net Acquires Acelero for Performance Management”
Once again AWOL
Yes once again I have gone AWOL on this blog, I know I’m a bad blogger. Well if there are any readers left I will try and post some more here. The last 2 months have been filled with lots and lots of work two major projects not to mention the planning for the ATCContinue reading “Once again AWOL”
