Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from June 2005

Sensis enters job market

June 30th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 1,908 views

The Australian IT had a story yesterday on how Sensis has partnered with Morgan & Banks to create an online recruitment site that will be designed to compete with the existing online job boards (Seek, MyCareer, and CareerOne).
The story was very light on details and when looking at the Sensis site I found no reference [...]

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links for 2005-06-29

June 29th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 986 views

Sarbanes-Oxley Report
Report on SOX and the implact on finance professionals, also provides information on hiring of these people
(tags: SOX recruitment)

Workindex.com article
Article from WorkIndex that talks about the impact blogs are having on HR professionals, quotes Joel Chessman and Gretchen Ledgard
(tags: rss blogs recruitment HRM)

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Joel interviews Ray Fassett of dot jobs

June 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,190 views

Joel Cheesmans posts an interview with Ray Fassett from dot jobs. We do get a small insight into some of the successes that dot jobs has had in the first week. Here Ray discusses some of the companies that HAVE registered:-
4. Can you name some of the employers applying for [...]

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links for 2005-06-28

June 28th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 957 views

Insomnia may precede and prolong major depression
Article from Eurekalert about how insomnia can lead to long term depression, someing to watch out for if you lose sleep
(tags: @READ&REVIEW depression insomnia)

Computerworld | IT monitoring with a twist
Computerworld article on business workflow and process monitoring software a new growth area in the IT application space
(tags: workflow process [...]

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Job seeker and recruitment podcast

June 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,392 views

Last week I asked What is Employment Acceleration?, well I got a reply from Cameron Reilly. It is a podcast from TPN on recruitment specifically designed for job seekers.
I had a listen and the first show is about 30 minutes and begins to cover some of the issues that job seekers face when looking [...]

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RSS and Microsoft

June 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Technology · 2,854 views

Over the weekend there was a fundamental change in the technology landscape that we all work in. At Gnomedex Microsoft announced that they are building support for RSS into Lornhorn, the next major release of the Windows OS. Lognhorn is due to go into beta testing late this year and with RSS tightly [...]

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Commitment vs. Engagement

June 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment · HR Management · 1,986 views

Dub Dubs writes a follow up to his analysis of Northwetern University study from earlier in the month. Where he was struggling with the differences between engagement and commitment, like many people.
In his recent post Dubs is saying you cannot have engagement without commitment and just because you have commitment does not mean you [...]

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links for 2005-06-27

June 27th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 2,191 views

Australian IT - Microsoft ties RSS into Longhorn (Spencer Swartz in San Francisco, JUNE 27, 2005)
From the Australian IT a lay-person’s view of what it means to have RSS built into Windows
(tags: windows rss)

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links for 2005-06-26

June 26th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,446 views

T+D Blog: Best you might’ve missed
Eva has some interesting links that I really need to read when I get some time
(tags: learning @READ&REVIEW)

ยป Coalition of the unwilling | Steve Gillmor’s Inforouter | ZDNet.com
Steve Gillmor talks about his current feelings on Attention.xml
(tags: attention.xml rss)

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I am a statistic

June 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,142 views

Thanks to Michael Jones of yet another f*$#&@! learning experience I am now a statistic.

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