Category Archives: Recruitment

PageUp People: Integrated Talent Management

What is Integrated Talent Management (ITM)? Well that was the question posed at this morning’s breakfast briefing session run by PageUp People to launch their new white paper, “ITM – The Evolution”. Their answer: Credit: Lumaxart ITM leverages the same data, process, workflow management, security model, user portals, and reporting and analytics tools across allContinue reading “PageUp People: Integrated Talent Management”

RecruitTECH September 2009

On September 18 in Canberra I will be speaking at RecruitTECH with a host of other people. What is RecruitTECH? The RecruitTECH conference will provide delegates with an insight into the future of recruitment and how technology will increasingly impact upon the sourcing of employees in coming years. Themes to be covered during the conference include:  theContinue reading “RecruitTECH September 2009”

Social Recruiting Summit

A quick summary from the Social Recruiting Summit that I attended yesterday at Google in San Francisco. The day kicked off with Reid Hoffman CEO of LinkedIn giving us an amazing presentation on LinkedIn. One of Reid’s main messages was that every individual is now their own small business, which means everyone needs their ownContinue reading “Social Recruiting Summit”

Excellent operational service delivery

This is the third instalment in my look at the hype around social recruiting, if you have missed them see the intro, parts 1 & 2. HR/Recruiters should focus on ensuring their operational service delivery is excellent instead of creating unrealistic expectations that social recruiting will save them. Like any business there is no point trying toContinue reading “Excellent operational service delivery”

Organisational challenges for social recruiting

There are four major challenges facing organisations from integrating social recruiting into their business operations, again I am stealing from the Mckinsey Cloud Computing report. Before we get into them I want to remind you of my current working definition of social recruiting: Using social media tools as part of recruiting Building a community ofContinue reading “Organisational challenges for social recruiting”

Step 1 define Social Recruiting

I wrote yesterday asking is the hype around social recruiting over, while a bit of a attention grabbing title I think the question still needs to be asked. Because when the hype is over we will all have moved on cause it failed to deliver or social recruiting will be part of everyday business. InContinue reading “Step 1 define Social Recruiting”

Social Recruiting: Is the hype over yet?

Next week I head to the US for the Social Recruiting Summit a one day extravaganza being held at the Googleplex in Mountain View. But as I sit here in wintery Melbourne pondering the future I am wondering when Social Recruiting will fall off the top of the Gartner Hype-curve? It will fall the trick will beContinue reading “Social Recruiting: Is the hype over yet?”

Is social media a SCAM for recruiting

Credit:Flickr cambodia4kidsorg Last week a US recruitment expert Peter Weddle called social media a SCAM for recruiting. He stated that it was a waste of time with no ROI, although he did not use the term ROI. Finally his prediction was that social media will not be the future of recruiting until 2014 while job boardsContinue reading “Is social media a SCAM for recruiting”

Do you know the Australian Sources of Talent?

Over the last couple of months I have been working with Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent to look at the most successful channels for finding talent in Australia. Our initial thought was how hard could it be to pull a survey together and send it to a few people. We were a little mistaken, butContinue reading “Do you know the Australian Sources of Talent?”