Gretchen from Microsoft has provided a fantasticreal world example of how to effectively use her blog within a recruiting environment. Gretchen and some of her colleagues are looking at cold calling candidates to try and attract “passive candidates”. So before they undertake the exercise she has decided to run a short survey to find outContinue reading “Effective use of recruiting blogs”
Category Archives: Future
Electronic Forms & a paperless office
Angus Logan pointed me to a new blog Electronic Forms from the developers of InfoView, a product that works with the Microsoft product InfoPath, I sort of referred to InfoPath on the weekend in my post on HR-XML and resumes. The InfoView product adds a new dimension to the picture and could provide the frameworkContinue reading “Electronic Forms & a paperless office”
Are you present?
Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about presence. By presence I am talk about your online presence and what that means to workforce solutions. I have posted about this before but now I am seeing the whole idea pop up in several different places. The traditional area is in instantContinue reading “Are you present?”
The future of recruiting software in 2005
The Employment Marketplace has an article from Bob Nelson (yes he is a vendor) on where he sees ATS and other recruiting solutions moving in the next 12 months. An interesting read after the last post.
Personalised RSS
Great item from Enterprise RSS about the possible changes we could see in RSS. Essentially there could be multiple private RSS feeds based on the needs to a single individual or group of individuals. This starts to move personalisation into RSS, if we all remember personalisation was “the thing” on the web in the lateContinue reading “Personalised RSS”
mLearning and Smart Phones
Another gem from PubSub. Selena has recently begun a blog on her learnings about elearning, with several very good posts. Her post on mLearning and smart phones. This follows on from my post on Macromedia and eLearning. Selena talks about her teaching of bakers in NZ, a perfect environment for some form of mlearning. AsContinue reading “mLearning and Smart Phones”
Laws of identity and workplace tools
Kim Cameron has recently published his 7th law of identity management they are:- The Law of Control The Law of Minimal Disclosure The Law of Fewest Parties The Law of Directed Identity The Law of Pluralism The Law of Human Integration The Law of Contexts Kim provides a good summary page if you want toContinue reading “Laws of identity and workplace tools”
blogs the double-edged sword?
Michael Gartenberg from ComputerWorld (IDG) wrote a short item yesterday on business blogging. He provides 3 areas for all businesses and employees to consider when venturing into this space. I feel that companies (and employees) should not fear blogging, however they should understand it and ensure that their employees understand the organisation’s view point. ThisContinue reading “blogs the double-edged sword?”
Searching for jobs and resumes
I wrote earlier this week about Heather’s post on .jobs. There have been a couple of comments about searchability etc on jobs and resumes. I find it interesting that when I search on Google, Yahoo or MSN search I cannot find 90% of jobs, even ones from corporate sites! Let’s take this job @ Microsoft.Continue reading “Searching for jobs and resumes”
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.
Michael Specht 