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21 hours, 2 minutes ago Meet Brett Iredale from Job Adder
Following last weeks interview with Kevin Howard from Jobs in HR today we have another local recruitment expert Brett Iredale. Brett runs the successful automated job posting system JobAdder and ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 12:20 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
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3 days, 17 hours ago Australian HR Related Twitter Users
I have been wondering for a while how many HR related Twitter users are there in Australia? Well instead of just wondering I pulled together this list, if I have ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 4:18 p.m. Friday 28th November 2008
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Inspecht HR Futures Conference
A quick update on the conference idea from last week. Based on feedback and discussions it have been named “Inspecht HR Futures Conference” and will bring together speakers covering all ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 1:34 p.m. Friday 28th November 2008
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Social networking sites increase employee productivity
An interesting piece by David Quach on the ABC News site (Hat Tip @aussienick) about how more people should use Facebook to improve worker productivity. Here is the summary: Well, ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 8:28 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
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4 days, 10 hours ago Australian Online tools for HR
I have been watching the growth in non recruiting SaaS tools for HR professionals in Australia with great interest. We have had payroll and time tracking services for a while, ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 10:56 p.m. Thursday 27th November 2008
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1 week ago Violence in the workplace
Violence in general is terrible and should never be in the workplace. But when it happens HR is usually involved. Years ago I remember talking to a senior HR executive ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 1:31 p.m. Monday 24th November 2008
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1 week, 1 day ago Meet Jobs in HR founder Kevin Howard
Last month I posted an interview with an internal recruiter from Oracle Australia, David Talamelli, and decided this will become a regular feature. I have always wanted to profile interviews ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 12:35 p.m. Sunday 23rd November 2008
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1 week, 2 days ago A small but important clarification
A couple of days ago an anonymous blog, The Didge, here in Australia posted a fairly length review of the job referral service 2Vouch during which they stated that I ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 10:04 a.m. Saturday 22nd November 2008
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1 week, 3 days ago Your help is needed
About a week ago I had one of my wild ideas, organise an HR and Enterprise 2.0 conference in Melbourne at the beginning of 2009. Over the last week I ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 11:05 a.m. Friday 21st November 2008
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1 week, 4 days ago Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing what is it & must you have it?
Today I want to discuss the latest hype in the HR technology space, Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing. Now the terms utility computing and grid computing have been around for a while now, ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 10:31 a.m. Thursday 20th November 2008
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1 week, 5 days ago Background checking as part of your hiring decision
Warning a Michael rant coming. While regular background checkinf is a standard part of most recruitment processes, using search engines and social networks to background check candidates still seems to ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 8:08 p.m. Wednesday 19th November 2008
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Taleo announces restatement & stock down 21%
At the begining of last week Taleo announced a restatement of their 3Q results due to revenue recognition issues. At which point the stock dropped from US$12.01 on Friday November ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 6:47 a.m. Wednesday 19th November 2008
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2 weeks ago Job loss news continues to be bad
Everywhere I turn at the moment there is more and more talk of job losses! it does not seem to matter what your industry is jobs are disappearing quicker that ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 6:13 a.m. Tuesday 18th November 2008
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2 weeks, 1 day ago Social media sacked employees and The Mother Test
First let me say this is not new people have been losing their jobs for years based on what they publish online, it is now the services being used are ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 6:22 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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2 weeks, 3 days ago Year End != Performance Management
Today I was catching up on some of my feeds and noticed many of the major HR technology related blogs I follow were discussing performance management, for example Jason, Meg, ...
Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology - 7:56 a.m. Saturday 15th November 2008
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