I am still busy reviewing what HR and recruitment progress I missed in the last 2 years while I worked in pure IT roles. One area that still seems to be bubbling along slowly is the video resume, with opinions on if they are good or bad, we now even have our own player inContinue reading “Video resumes in the Australian marketplace”
Category Archives: Technology
Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications
Today we saw the release of the top 100 Australian Web 2.0 applications in BRW, in reading the list there are many familiar names that appear along with a few new ones and a couple of surprises. I’m not going to comment on the list or specific positions as I’m sure there are lots ofContinue reading “Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications”
Talent management analytics
The good doctor, Dr John Sullivan that is, is providing HR practitioners with some of his thoughts around why analytics around talent management is failing and some of the future directions. I looked at the failings of workforce metrics a lot last year when I wrote the HR Technology topic for AHRI‘s Professional Diploma &Continue reading “Talent management analytics”
Creating corporate mash potatoes
One of the attributes of Web 2.0 that has had such a profound effect is that of openness. Openness in all forms, communication, plans and technology. The technology openness, via RSS, REST, XML, and APIs has allowed both professional and hobby developers to create new applications based on different data, sites and services. This resultContinue reading “Creating corporate mash potatoes”
Corporations in virtual worlds
There has been a fair amount written over the last couple years of corporation running public presentations and employee communication sessions in virtual world such as SecondLife. Some of the largest users have been IBM, Sun Microsystems and Cisco, however most fo this work seems to have been public type presentations. A couple of weeksContinue reading “Corporations in virtual worlds”
Zoho launches Zoho People for the SME market
A couple of days ago SaaS vendor Zoho launched their latest product Zoho People, designed for small to medium sized organisations. The product has 5 modules up front:- Â Â Â Organization Module: This module is used to define the structure of your organization including departments, designations/titles and also the Org Chart. Recruitment Module: The Recruitment moduleContinue reading “Zoho launches Zoho People for the SME market”
Become a recruiter for your friends
(Sorry long post.) Today I was emailed about a new job referral tool in the Australian marketplace, Hoojano in semi private beta. As far as I can tell has stayed under the radar of almost everyone, a Google search yields 38 results. OnRec blog have covered it in a limited fashion, along with James ChristianContinue reading “Become a recruiter for your friends”
Learning and YouTube
A couple of days ago I came across an article in the Australian IT about how a leading Australian university, Macquarie University, is starting to look at using YouTube to deliver lectures. Very interesting idea. Macquarie has been making lectures available for download to students for about 3 years now, so a move to videoContinue reading “Learning and YouTube”
Enterprise Search
For me one of the keys to being a productive knowledge worker is having access to the right information at the right time. This gets even more important as workers begin to self-publish, basically share their knowledge, behind the firewall using blogs, wikis, forums etc. A organisation needs to leverage this data to turn itContinue reading “Enterprise Search”
More on censorship
A follow up post, I found a few more articles on this whole censorship issue in Australia from numerous sources and some more thoughts. There has been a huge discussion on Twitter between social media and web folks who I personally consider experts in the online world but many of them seem confused. Not good.Continue reading “More on censorship”
Michael Specht 