Smarter Government: Oxymoron or possibility?

Feb 23

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 government. In...

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HR Club Sydney Expands!

Feb 19

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 on Twitter. Since we moved...

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New Job: HR Manager (Insurance Agency)

Feb 18

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 new roles that we run a story on who the successful candidate was-...

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Want to Define Your Talent DNA? Don’t Waste the Values Section Included in Your Performance Review… from HR Capitalist

Feb 18

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 you’ve achieved it. Kris...

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How far would you be willing to go to get a job?

Feb 08

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 you can be even more specific than that. You can target key...

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