Oct 31, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: For the last couple of months Twitter has been testing out a new feature, Lists, and as of yesterday Lists were available to all users. So what is a list? Anyone can curate and publish lists, so if you have an idea for one, just click “New list” in the sidebar of your Twitter account and [...]. (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: Yes it seems I have risen to the ranks of a power blog for the first time. Yep I appeared today on the Fistful of Talent/HR Capitalist’s 5th listing of the top 30 blogs on talent management. Previous listing have been judged by humans to determine if a blog was to be included. This time the [...]. (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: I am a firm believer in the whole “Wisdom of Crowds” process so this article in The Age today made me think a bit. Austereo, Australia radio network, had teamed up with Jelli a US network to provide Australians with the first 24 hour a day crowdsourced radio show. Basically listeners go online to vote [...]. (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Google Blog Search: recruiting web 2.0 The famous Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up late last week with lots and lots of product announcements and more news stories than I could ever hope to digest. (Not helped by the fact that I have been sick for about 4 days now.)Anyway here are a few summary items:If teens are confused by Twitter but love Facebook what does that tel (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: A lack of clear communication is cited as a common cause of many relationships failures, be they personal or professional.Many a study has shown that clearly communicating the employment deal up front is a critical first step in having an engaged employee.This should be obvious, no one likes to buy a product only to find ou (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: These types of articles really really get me going. 54% of Companies Ban … I’m sorry but I am not surprised that 77% of employees who had access to Facebook used it during the work day! Ok how many logged onto personal email accounts, made a personal phone call, used their personal mobile phone, had some non-work [...]. (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: We are coming to the end of the early bird discount period for the joint event between Inspecht and ATC Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution. while the early bird discount is good, register 2 or more delegates and you get an even better deal. So why attend? Listen to Australian case studies from Ernst & Young and [...]. (Read More)

Oct 06, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: Something I get asked a lot is “How does social media impact the HR department?”There are lots of ways, including areas that crosses into the recruiting; attraction, branding, onboarding and closing the deal.Do your offer letters engage future employees like this?All kidding aside, any company that can give this much attent (Read More)

Sep 27, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: Late last week Jobvite, who 3 weeks ago secured another $8.25 million in series B funding, launched their latest product Jobvite Source. A product that allows any company to source candidates through a combination of social networks without the need of their larger ATS. Jobvite Source also allows employees to refer jobs on (Read More)

Sep 19, 2009

SMC:posts During my presentation yesterday on social media in the workplace at RecruitTech I spoke briefly about the “Facebook Five” and felt I would expand on my comments here.In summary six (it was five) NSW prison officers are being threatened with being fired over comments they made on a Facebook page “Suggestion to help Big Ron (Read More)

Sep 18, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: Today I gave a short presentation at RecruitTech in Canberra on Social Media in the workplace. The official bio was:Many big organisations continue to block the use of social networking tools in the workplace, whilst others encourage their use.  But how much Facebook surfing and Twittering is too much?  This presentation we (Read More)

Sep 14, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: Two interesting things have happened in the last 3 days. I woke on Saturday morning to the news that Joel Cheesman, the Cheezhead site and from what I can tell brand had been purchased by Jobing. Part of this change is the blog will be no more. This news struck me as very strange, given the [...]. (Read More)

Sep 13, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: It has been an interesting week or so since Phillip and I released the sources of talent report for Australia. We have had both positive and negative feedback, which is to be expected.Some of the commentary available online:Gerry CrispinAlice SnellRoss ClennettSix FiguresPeerloI would like to review some of the concerns rai (Read More)

Sep 02, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: Back in April I had one of my many wild ideas, undertake a sources of hire survey for Australia, I mean how hard can it be? The idea was triggered by a post from Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent so after chatting over a few days we decided to join forces and get a survey done. The [...]. (Read More)

Aug 31, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: The folks at Recruiter Daily have asked me to do a short webinar for their readers about social media and recruitment called “Plan your social media strategy - connect, attract and recruit“. The event will be 11am September 17 and you can register online now, even if you can’t make the live event the presentation [...]. (Read More)

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