Smarter Government: Oxymoron or possibility?
Over the past year, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in the IBM “Smarter Work for a Smarter Government” Future Leaders Forum. The last session I blogged about included a combination of Government execs and their Gen Y representatives, talking about how it is that we can improve collaboration, productivity and efficiency in the [...]
HR Club Sydney Expands!
I’m really pleased to say that we are successfully growing the HR Community in NSW and it’s been an awesome experience meeting people and hearing what people are up to in their various workplaces; whether it be government, private, small or large organisations. HR Club Sydney currently has 53 fans on Facebook and 806 followers [...]
New Job: HR Manager (Insurance Agency)
Recently I’ve been contacted by a number of people looking for HR jobs and also for people searching for talented HR professionals. If you have a position you would like me to promote via the blog, feel free to send them through. It would also be great if once we have people be accepted into [...]
Want to Define Your Talent DNA? Don’t Waste the Values Section Included in Your Performance Review… from HR Capitalist
We’re coming up to Mid Year Performance review time at my work and as per usual, it’s like pulling teeth. I’m resilient to this though, because deep down I believe in how important it is to have goals and talk about your performance with you manager. I encourage talking about WHAT you’ve achieved, but also [...]
How far would you be willing to go to get a job?
So this is a guy in the U.S. and he has targeted Razorfish because he really wants to work there. Facebook advertising is quite cool in the way you can actually target the ads on really specific data on the users. You can target people based on the standard things like age,location and gender. However [...]
Top 25 Talent Management Blogs
Well this list is the Top 25 Talent Management Blogs as determined by Fistful of Talent. Again, lists are an advantageous point in the right direction for who to check out online (but not always gospel. Some are just a popularity contest). Have a look at the list and let me know what you think. [...]
Special Guest Post from AER Head
I’m very excited this morning to publish this guest post from AER Head. Aer Head is a Sydney-based blogger, analyst and commentator on trends in the attraction, engagement and retention space in Australia. He is currently GAD at TMP Worldwide, Sydney, (and takes no credit for any of the work mentioned below which was managed [...]
Have you given video a go yet?
We’ve all watched something on youtube (ok perhaps not for work reasons) and we’re seeing a big shift from print media spend in recruitment advertising to the use of video online. Instead of trying to build brand presence by buying ad space in prominent newspapers, companies are giving people insight to the organisation and what [...]

