The 7th Annual ATC Conference is just around the corner and from the looks of the agenda it will be as fantastic as the previous ones. This year’s theme is around agile talent management and will be looking at the different ways you can structure your talent management function. As always the speaker line upContinue reading “7th Annual ATC Conference coming up”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Plans for 2013
Just a short update and a small reflection. At this stage nothing set in stone, still talking to a few people and looking at the jobs on offer. My review of next steps has me looking in two different directions both equally interesting; IT project management ideally in HR Technology (either vendor or customer) orContinue reading “Plans for 2013”
Mobility and HR
Source: Flickr user smemon Be it mobile phones or tablets Australians love our mobile devices with 76% of us having a Smartphone and almost 40% of us now have tablet devices, however only 50% of these with non-wifi communication capability limiting the remainder to use in cafes and other public wifi locations. The 8th AustralianContinue reading “Mobility and HR”
Search Update
A bit of an update. Yes the networks do work, got a few interesting leads and a couple of meetings to follow up to see where things might go. In addition I have been reviewing my resume and looking at what I enjoy doing as a step to determine the right sort of role andContinue reading “Search Update”
The search
As I mentioned earlier I have been busy, I still am but now looking at my next steps and that will most likely result in some employment arrangement within an organisation. I have just started this journey but I do need to find something for March 2013. I have spent a little time looking overContinue reading “The search”
ATC Social Media Presentation
Here is my presentation from the ATC Social Media event. My main messages that I hope people took away were: Using social media for marketing is ok, but engagement and community is better Engagement and community is harder than just a Twitter account or Facebook Social Media is not easy, nor is it free TrueContinue reading “ATC Social Media Presentation”
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?”
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!”
Michael Specht 