I am sorry but I have to call this out. The RCSA is the peak Australian association for the recruitment and on-hire sector (according to their web site) but I do wonder sometimes if they know what is going on. (Disclosure I am not a member and have only attended a few of their events so myContinue reading “Twitter in the recruitment process”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Internal Social Network Analysis
Following yesterday’s post on future recruiting technology, which looking back should have read future talent management technology, here is an example of thing I am seeing in the market. SAP has built a Social Network Analyzer prototype for inside the organisation. (Hat tip James Governor.) It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships. It providesContinue reading “Internal Social Network Analysis”
The future of recruiting technology
I have been thinking a lot recently about the future of recruiting technology. While social networking is all the rage at the moment it is not new, and was first seen as a recruitment tool at least two to three years ago if not longer. So where to next? I usually look at future technologyContinue reading “The future of recruiting technology”
Job Applications on Twitter-like service
I found this over at the Amnesia blog a Dutch marketing agency, Energize, in a bid to attract social media cadidates has reworked their job application page to look like Twitter. I have to agree with the guy at Amnesia it is a little gimmicky, but as they said the site is getting attention. AContinue reading “Job Applications on Twitter-like service”
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 Summary
Over the last few days I have published a number of posts summarising the sessions at ATC that I attended. However I wanted to pull together an overall summary of my thoughts from the event. This was my first ATC, mainly as I had now been in the position to attend before due to my previousContinue reading “ATC Summary”
ATC: Kevin Wheeler
Kevin closed out the final day of ATC with a great look at the future, getting the audience to really think about what is next. His theme retrain, redeploy and refresh. We are currently experiencing significant change across many areas: Economic sea change The end or beginning of the end of traditional media, schools, largeContinue reading “ATC: Kevin Wheeler”
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”
ATC: Gerry Crispin
At the end of the first day Gerry Crispin gave the audience a great run down on revamping their career’s web site. There are four aspects you need to consider when revamping your web site these are: Demographics: How many prospects are there that you can target? Class of Workers: Who are your workers? Source ofContinue reading “ATC: Gerry Crispin”
Can you do the #splits?
There are several interesting services taking shape on Twitter to help the recruitment industry; such as HashJobs, JobFeedr and now Splits.org. Splits.org allows recruiters to share both jobs and candidates and splt the fees. Now Split networks are not new but this one is. Splits.org comes out of the new Recruiting Blogs Labs (does everyoneContinue reading “Can you do the #splits?”
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