Dub’s is calling for vendors like Lawson and Ultimate to just close up shop and go away. While this is a very bold statement he is not far from the mark.
Today when the major vendors are pumping millions and millions into their products it does become very hard for a second tier vendor to keep up, unless they have a very specific niche. This however does not limit new entrants, the issue with Lawson and others is they have an installed base which is hard to move.
Hi after several weeks of thought I have decided to move this blog to a new home. From now on I will be using WordPress and be based at www.specht.com.au. Each old post on this site will have a pointer to the new site, I have already updated the feed so you do not have to do anything.
Farewell Blogger, hello WordPress and my own domain.
Welcome to my new WordPress blog at my new domain. I have been planning to move to a new domain for many months now and given what is going on at work where I might be without a job soon I thought it was time to get cracking. I have also become very disappointed with Blogger in the last few weeks, mainly around reliability and features, last week was the final straw. I wrote a nice long review of CVOz.com.au only to have Blogger die as I submitted the post, I could not go back (which sometimes saves the post) as Blogger was down.
So on Friday I bought a domain (or two) and in the last three days set up a very basic home for me to migrate to, so welcome. Over the coming weeks I will be added several more things to the specht.com.au domain and undertaking some customising of the WordPress environment (once I have learned what to do).
I have yet to decide if I will move my old posts here from what I have read the process seems easy enough but there are a few gotta’s to watch out for. Right now there is a pointer in all of the old posts to this new site.
Great to see Anne Barlett-Brag calling for podcasting to enter education. Having seen the increase in productivity from my wife now she can download her lectures same day from Macquarie Uni there is huge potential.
Great to see Anne Barlett-Brag caling for podcasting to enter education. Having seen the increase in productivity from my wife now she can download her lectures same day from Macquarie Uni there is huge potential.
Regina from BNet Blogs asks an interesting question. How do you measure the success of a blog strategy?
There are many items out there that can help you develop your measures. At the end of the day you need to have a clear measure for success, like when Jeremy Wright auctioned his blogging service on eBay.
Regina from BNet Blogs asks an interesting question. How do you measure the success of a blog strategy?
There are many items out there that can help you develop your measures. At the end of the day you need to have a clear measure for success, like when Jeremy Wright auctioned his blogging service on eBay.
A couple of days ago Indeed announced a partnership with Info.com that will integrate the 100,000s of jobs that Indeed has into Info.com‘s aggregated search engine. (In Australia Sensis is doing a similar thing to Info.com). An interesting convergence of tools.
This got me thinking about comparing Indeed with SimplyHired, an interesting question. How does one judge the results returned by these meta search tools? Or is it just the results that are important, what about additional tools and services? So let’s take a look.
I ran the same search on both tools, SAP Project Manager located in New York. Indeed returned 456 jobs, while SimplyHired had 705 jobs. An interesting result given Indeed has been in the market for several more months then SimplyHired. However looking closer SimplyHired looks within 25 miles of the location entered, I did not see the same for Indeed although their advance search sets the distance at 25 miles by default so I would guess that this is their default setting.
Indeed has several very useful features for a job seeker. Firstly they automatically prompt you to refine your search, I assume based on information they have gather from other searches. Indeed also provides several sets of statistics on the job market which might be of interest to a job seeker. They also provide a jobroll service via their published web services that allow several different uses.
SimplyHired also provides services and tools for job seekers. Firstly they are getting users to rate the quality of the results returned. While not being used now in the future could provide for some interesting personalised features. They also allow the job seeker to filter their results by company or different market segment, such as Fortune 100 Fastest Growing. Possibly the biggest feature is the recently announced partnership with LinkedIn. Which allows the job seeker to see who they know that might help them get the job. (I plan to post a bit more about LinkedIn later today.)
So then which results are best? Like the regular search engines it is hard to tell and a very personal choice. I would suggest that job seekers use both services so that they do not limit themselves.
Of course let’s not forget RSSJobs, however RSSJobs seems to only search a single source and requires users to pay a subscription for usage.
A couple of days ago Indeed announced a partnership with Info.com that will integrate the 100,000s of jobs that Indeed has into Info.com‘s aggregated search engine. (In Australia Sensis is doing a similar thing to Info.com). An interesting convergence of tools.
This got me thinking about comparing Indeed with SimplyHired, an interesting question. How does one judge the results returned by these meta search tools? Or is it just the results that are important, what about additional tools and services? So let’s take a look.
I ran the same search on both tools, SAP Project Manager located in New York. Indeed returned 456 jobs, while SimplyHired had 705 jobs. An interesting result given Indeed has been in the market for several more months then SimplyHired. However looking closer SimplyHired looks within 25 miles of the location entered, I did not see the same for Indeed although their advance search sets the distance at 25 miles by default so I would guess that this is their default setting.
Indeed has several very useful features for a job seeker. Firstly they automatically prompt you to refine your search, I assume based on information they have gather from other searches. Indeed also provides several sets of statistics on the job market which might be of interest to a job seeker. They also provide a jobroll service via their published web services that allow several different uses.
SimplyHired also provides services and tools for job seekers. Firstly they are getting users to rate the quality of the results returned. While not being used now in the future could provide for some interesting personalised features. They also allow the job seeker to filter their results by company or different market segment, such as Fortune 100 Fastest Growing. Possibly the biggest feature is the recently announced partnership with LinkedIn. Which allows the job seeker to see who they know that might help them get the job. (I plan to post a bit more about LinkedIn later today.)
So then which results are best? Like the regular search engines it is hard to tell and a very personal choice. I would suggest that job seekers use both services so that they do not limit themselves.
Of course let’s not forget RSSJobs, however RSSJobs seems to only search a single source and requires users to pay a subscription for usage.
It seems the Japanese are getting very serious about the security of their children. They now have knife proof clothing, GPS tagged bags and personal alarm systems.
However I have to wonder about the privacy impacts and long term psychological changes with the culture based on these types of changes.
Michael Specht 