Technology, Clouds, Social Security and Job Services

… was able to successfully use these techniques to land into a number of reputable Microsoft Partners …



From the same guy that brought you

“SharePoint for the Newstart”!

Globalisation

• Australia is still quintessentially the place where it is difficult to find SKILLED labour
• It is never been more the case … the SKILL level is higher … but the rewards are even HIGHER!! ;)
• So we continue to Tune and Optimise the Safety Net for the 21st Century
• Ever widening gap between those that have SKILLS and those that have not!
• Does this mean Australia has to sacrifice our decent welfare system*? Not at all! ?
• Use of the public, private and community clouds – including telephone and internet to help job seekers help themselves by giving them the right information
• Safety Net may have to somewhat assist to give retrenched and unemployed workers new skills

The Cloud and Job Search

• The Public Cloud is Telephone and Internet
• Replaces inefficient physical door knocking with virtual door knocking

Key Technologies in Job Searching

• Word Processing
• Word
• Social Media
• LinkedIn
• Web Browser
• Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera
• Internet Phone
• Skype, Hangouts
• Telephone
• Mobile
• Job Boards
• Seek, Gumtree
• Search Engines
• Google
• BYOD Devices connect to WiFi
• Spreadsheets (Journal Job Seeking Efforts)
• Excel

The Job Find Centre of the future. 

• Facebook Messaging – apply penalties for Centrelink
• IP Telephony provides free phone calls (local and STD) to landlines
• Only landlines (not mobile or international landlines)
• …

• Not for Profit SPLA licenses on Employment Provider terminals
• A [significant] role to play as does the technology industry
• Margins may be low but volume of Australian jobseekers is significant! 

Certificates for Higher Streams

• As Job Seekers upstream Certificates in Business
• This does not hurt but it is better to … provide Certificates in ICT as Computer Technology
• Technology not just assists Jobseekers actually allows exerting control on Job Seekers to look for work!
• Aim for more sincere Job Seeker efforts and looking around more for work

ICT Training 

• BYOD Devices
• Microsoft Office
• Internet Technologies, Web Browsers etc … 

Conclusion

• Technology facilities business, therefore Technology facilities jobs!

This is not to mention the renewed importance in finding a job ~ in the 21st Century!

70 - 332: Planning Enterprise Social - ~ SharePoint Study Guide

A Summary of the Planning required to implement a Social Workload

• Planning My Sites
• Manage User Profile Service Application
• Set Up My Sites
• Planning Social Permissions
• Manage User Profile Service Application
• Configured Trust Host Locations
• Manage Web Application
• Self Service Site Collections
• Planning User Profiles
• New User Profile Service Application
• Start User Profile Service
• Planning Activity Feeds
• Manage User Profile Service Application
• Manager User Properties
• Manage Following
• Start Distributed Cache Service
• Planning Connections (These are Synchronisation Connections)
• Manage User Profile Service Application
• Configure Synchronisation Connections

70 – 331: SharePoint with Federation Services Summary - ~ SharePoint Study Guide

NB: Federation Services shares data on the domain with External Users -
outside the domain, outside the network and this can go over the Internet ~
which may not be secure

• Prepare ADFS for SharePoint 2013:
• Configure ADFS for a relying party. 
• Configure a claim rule. [ADFS]
• Export a token signing certificate.
• Start the Security Token Service
• Import a token signing certificate [SharePoint]
• Define a unique identifier for claims mapping [SharePoint]
• Create new authentication provider
• Select the authentication provider

70 - 332: Service Application Federation Summary - ~ SharePoint Study Guide

1. Set up the Trust between the 2 SharePoint farms - so see my other hyperlinked post
2. Managing Service Application Permissions
1. Publishing Farm gives Consuming Farm permissions to Application Discovery and Load Balancing Service Applications
3. Publishing Service Applications
1. Publish Service Application (on Publishing Farm) 
1. Provide URN to Consuming Farm
4. Consuming Service Applications
1. Connect to Publishing Farm

Ambiguous Words in SharePoint - ~ SharePoint Study Guide

Very ambiguous, frequently occurring and quite the cause of confusion - use this to help you study SharePoint.

Try and get the exact context when these words are being used - if you're talking to a customer.

• Web
• Application
• Site
• Content

Still ambiguous but no so frequently occurring:

• Policy
• Template
• Service
• Feature

If your business are throwing these words around make sure you clarify with them what they are meaning

• Information Management
• Content Management
• Collaboration
• Work space

xRM Job Search Diary

This is still a work in progress ... it will only be complete once I finalise a design on an xRM demo tenant ... contact me if you are interested in expediting this.

Existing System – ‘The Dole Diary’

• Started by John Howard
• Current system 10 Employer Contacts (or 10 Activities in xRM terms – that is phone calls, e-mails or appointments)
• Needs to go through Australian Parliament
• And then - train JSAs, DEWR in xRM!
• First step could be to start getting Job Seekers (also Job Service Providers) in a mind set shift from Activities to Opportunities or at least Leads
• This would be a measurable impact on the Australian economy!
• Lower the unemployment rate.
• Increase workforce participation etc ….

10 “Opportunities” per fortnight!

• Stakeholders will ask “What is an Opportunity?” 
• Increase **Quality** of contacting employers and subsequent jobsearching…
• 10 Opportunities per fortnight!
• 10 qualified (warm) Opportunities per fortnight – not just Leads or xRM Activities (Phone Calls and E-mails)!
• To get 10 proper Opportunities takes job-seeking effort!

xRM Strategy – 2 [Main] Goals

• Monitor Sales (or Job Seeking) Efforts
• Help somebody get off Benefits and into a Job!

xRM Jobsearch Diary

• An xRM [Online] Solution for the Jobsearch Diary
• CRM monitors (and assists with) Sales efforts
• Assist those looking for genuine work
• xRM Solution to assist those looking for work

Opportunities are the main if only 'whole Entity'

• Opportunity is Central Entity
• Description field
• Able to add Notes
• Job Seekers are almost always looking for Immediate Start so Estimated Close Date is almost irrelevant … etc …

See below for link to Schema. 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FE2TQ8VbcS3KHmIeo9uUHDBuPVXG0qs7

Some points on Managed Payroll particularly in Government

• Commonwealth Government is probably the largest entity in Australia and needs to give rise to 3 different types of payroll – APS payroll, Managed Payroll and Recruiter Payroll (perhaps under Managed Payroll)
• Of course this excludes Subcontractors working on a Results basis whom manage their own Public Liability
• You will also be able to manage transitions across all 3 e.g. from Managed Payroll to APS payroll and back again etc … 
• Payroll in the 21st century to be quite sophisticated to meet the needs of pseudo APS staff - using FBT claims to allow for partial deductions on smartphones, conferences, wearables, Internet etc … as these are necessary tools in contract - APS that taxpayer does not provide!
• Electronic timesheet systems also need to be quite flexible and keep good records of 0.5 days worked – not just weeks, fortnights or months
• A key goal here is for recruiters to make more placements and they should be definitely encouraged to make more placements!

More Aboriginal / Indigenous names for Australian streets & suburbs ...

At the moment I am thinking of streets as an obvious example.

Too many George Street, Elizabeth Street, Queen Street etc ... especially that some of them are on obscure small streets!

A relatively inexpensive gesture of reconciliation I would have thought?

Universities Scenario: If Canberra was shifted to Melbourne!

Universities Scenario

• Allow a University in Sydney and a University in Melbourne to merge and have two campuses to better position itself to export into Asian Markets
• Imagine if the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne agreed to offer the same courses and recognise each other’s Degrees - so you would only need to choose which Campus you wanted to study at and which city you wanted to live in! Or shift in between!
• No more of these small intra-city campuses - only middle sized campuses in 2 different cities!
• A Chinese student looking to study overseas would only have to choose between Melbourne & Sydney – mouth watering, irresistible!