Ok everybody is talking about Google Talk, I even saw it on the mainstream news tonight here in Melbourne! “Oh and yes you can talk for FREE!” is the quote I heard repeated way too many times. It is not really free, you have to pay for bandwidth, you also need broadband to get fullContinue reading “Google Talk”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Online recruitment – the results…
Well yesterday has been and gone and so has the first Victorian AHRI HRIS SIG session (way too many acronyms). The sessions seemed to go down well I was able to run through my presentation in just on 15 minutes. Reflections. The audience spent a lot of time writting, this is good The audience lookedContinue reading “Online recruitment – the results…”
The candidate experience
After working away last night I finished the draft on my presentation for tomorrow morning. My plan is to look at online recruitment from the candidate’s persective. I have pulled together information from several sources including myslef, CareerXRoads, Andrew Marritt, Joel Chessman, Recruiting RoundTable, Dub Dubs, Regina Miller, all who I thank up front. ThisContinue reading “The candidate experience”
24 hrs in my life
It has been an interesting 24 hours in my life. Let me give you the background. I am currently the convenor for the Victorian HRIS Special Interest Group for AHRI, a group that has not been active in many years. We set up an organising committee around March and have our first public event thisContinue reading “24 hrs in my life”
links for 2005-08-22
Rss20AndAtom10Compared – Atom Wiki If you are technically minded have a look at the comparison between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 (tags: aggregator Atom rss) Australian IT – Seek exceeds profit forecast (Correspondents in Sydney, AUGUST 22, 2005) Will it continue? I doubt it unless they reinvent themselves. (tags: recruitment jobs) Cheesman’s Online Recruitment Blog:Continue reading “links for 2005-08-22”
RSS, XML and orange buttons
This is so true, why when you click on the funky orange XML/RSS icon does your browser display gibberish! RSS should be a MIME type or something similar so that when the user clicks on the subscribe button the RSS reader automatically adds the feed. Now some readers are starting to do this, Pluck forContinue reading “RSS, XML and orange buttons”
Wild recruitment idea
I have posted before about wild resume ideas. I wonder how many more strange ideas will come out of Gretchen’s competition to show JobsBlog (Microsoft and most other high tech recruiters) why you are the ideal Microsoft Applicant. Pity the prizes will only get shipped in the US, I really wanted a Microsoft Rubik cube!Continue reading “Wild recruitment idea”
Deloitte says no to blogging
Angus Logan points to an article from The Age where Deloitte says no to blogging. The good thing from this is it seem the organisation understood its culture and industry and decided against corporate blogging. I wonder how many more organisations will end up with the same decision?
AJAX and SAP
I found another great item from the SDN Weblogs on how to use AJAX with to create a simple BSP application that returns the user records from R/3. A very cool example. In fact I am getting so use to AJAX style applications (Gmail, Google Maps etc) that non AJAX applications are a pain. ThisContinue reading “AJAX and SAP”
links for 2005-08-12
Jim McDonald argues the Government’s IR revolution runs counter to Keating’s reforms. – On Line Opinion – 12/8/2005 Perspective on the proposed IR reforms in Australia and how they reflect some of the previous governments thoughts (tags: IR)
Michael Specht 