If you have been following this blog for a while you would know that I am always looking for the next thing. I have been doing the same thing with using social media in business. Social Recruiting has a lot of buzz at the moment. How do I know there is a buzz, well 200+ peopleContinue reading “What’s next with social recruiting”
Category Archives: HR Management
Twitter Lists for All
For the last couple of months Twitter has been testing out a new feature, Lists, and as of yesterday Lists were available to all users. So what is a list? Anyone can curate and publish lists, so if you have an idea for one, just click “New list” in the sidebar of your Twitter accountContinue reading “Twitter Lists for All”
Crowdsourcing promotions?
I am a firm believer in the whole “Wisdom of Crowds” process so this article in The Age today made me think a bit. Austereo, Australia radio network, had teamed up with Jelli a US network to provide Australians with the first 24 hour a day crowdsourced radio show. Basically listeners go online to voteContinue reading “Crowdsourcing promotions?”
ATC Social Media Conference
We are coming to the end of the early bird discount period for the joint event between Inspecht and ATC Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution. while the early bird discount is good, register 2 or more delegates and you get an even better deal. So why attend? Listen to Australian case studies from Ernst &Continue reading “ATC Social Media Conference”
HR Technology Trends
Credit: Flickr dbilly Last month Watson Wyatt released their 2009 HR Technology Trends Report. So I grabbed my credit card and laid down US$45 to get a copy so I could see what they had to say. Some thoughts: The report is very hard to compare with their 2007 HR Technology Trends Report as theContinue reading “HR Technology Trends”
Social Media In the Workplace
Below are my notes for the talk I have given over the last week on social media in the workplace. I admit they do not flow as an essay as they supplemented my slides, hopefully you can derive my messages. Social Media in the Workplacehttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=fcbpresentationv3-090511080010-phpapp01&rel=0&stripped_title=social-media-in-the-workplace View more presentations from Michael Specht. For nearly 20 years geeks haveContinue reading “Social Media In the Workplace”
ATC: Sue Polo Engineering and Operations Staffing Director, Google
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”
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”
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”
Social Media in the Workplace and Policies
It is interesting how things align for the last few months I have been talking with FCB Workplace Lawyers about speaking at their breakfast series on social media in the workplace. The growth in discussion on this topic over the same period has been amazing. Last week FCB announced the details of these sessions 8thContinue reading “Social Media in the Workplace and Policies”
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