Michael Specht

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

Entries from January 2006

links for 2006-01-30

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,060 views

Tizag Tutorials
Web development reference covering html, css, php
(tags: development Javascript PHP XML CSS)

Gautam Ghosh on Management: You give recruiting a bad name
The underbelly of the recruitment industry is highlighted in this fastinating news items from India, thanks Gautam.
(tags: recruitment jobs ethics)

Introducing Six Sigma: A Company’s Quest for Cultural Change
Six Sigma is a great way to [...]

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Now Hiring for free

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments · RSS, Recruitment · 1,669 views

Launched in November NowHiring is making a play for the job board space in Australia. How are they doing this? Offering FREE job postings, yes free, for their basic employer package. Now if you are an employer in Australia and recruit you should check them out.
If you just can’t help yourself and [...]

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Spam attack

January 27th, 2006 · 10 Comments · Blogging · 2,663 views

Over the last hour I have been under a comment spam attack from 195.225.177.80. Based on a whois search they seem to be coming from an ISP in the Netherlands, specifically RIPE Network Coordination Centre. Doing some background checking on RIPE I would suggest that it is a user on their network somewhere.
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Dr Death a Top Search for 2005

January 27th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Recruitment · 1,328 views

It seems that Dr Death (Jayant Patel) has topped 2005 as one of the most searched news items on Yahoo last year.
How many of your recruitment mistakes have ended up like that? None I hope.
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Jobs In RSS

January 25th, 2006 · 4 Comments · RSS, Recruitment · 1,788 views

Over the last few months I have been exchanging emails with Kevin Howard from Jobs In HR, a niche job board here in Australia for HR jobs, I first wrote about them a while back. Jobs in HR is a email service sent out to over 5000 subscribers on a weekly basis. Jobs [...]

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Hot and Hoter

January 23rd, 2006 · 5 Comments · General · 1,460 views

The last few days have been very hot here in Melbourne, around 40-43C (or 104-109F), just a bit hot. We went to the shopping centre to try and escape, like everyone else, and I would guess it was in the mid 30’s inside the centre. The shops kept turning the lights down to [...]

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links for 2006-01-20

January 20th, 2006 · No Comments · General · 1,740 views

Work vs. Life Balance in the Extreme (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Jeremy provides a reflection on work life balance in California
(tags: WorkLife)

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Early access for Victorians

January 18th, 2006 · No Comments · HR Management · 1,220 views

From 1 Jan 2006 employees in Victoria will be able to get access to their long service leave early.
You can read about the details at Deacons Legal Update. Some of the changes are:-

Most Victorian employees will now get 2 months long service leave after 10 years service, rather than 3 months long service leave [...]

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links for 2006-01-14

January 14th, 2006 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 983 views

Computerworld | Developing the managerial mind
An interesting commentary on the recent SHRM conference from and IT perpective.
(tags: HRM SHRM Leadership)

Pharma-Opportunities: Pharmaceutical Jobs Pharmacy Technician Science Jobs Medical Sales Job Listings
A new job board for pharmaceutical jobs.
(tags: recruiting jobs)

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Vertical Search and India

January 12th, 2006 · 19 Comments · Recruitment · 3,089 views

Gautam posts on an interesting development in India around vertical search, could it be illegal in India?
It seems Naukri has successfully defended got an interim injunction againstBixee for (updated 14 Jan 2006) scraping of their jobs by another site. I have been wondering when this would happen and it is probably one of [...]

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