Davos: BraveNewTalent Allows Job Seekers To Follow Their Future Employers

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Friday, January 27th, 2012

BraveNewTalent is a social recruitment platform operating in the UK and moving into the US. I caught up with CEO and founder Lucia Tarnowski at Davos.

The startup is built around the idea that people want to follow companies they might want to work for in the future, and companies in turn want to educate potential hires about how they work.

They recently introduced a few new features, which Tarnowski outlines, notably the new feature enabling a user to follow the key employees of a company.


Company: BraveNewTalent
Launch Date: June 5, 2008
Funding: £500k

BraveNewTalent is an Enterprise talent engagement and social learning platform. Organizations such as Expedia and Standard Chartered use the platform to build talent communities around professional topics that attract, engage & develop people from their past, present and future workforce. BraveNewTalent will help organizations better discover, influence and leverage the world’s workforce by mapping the talent graph, i.e. understanding where skills and knowledge reside. BraveNewTalent supports employers’ long-tail recruitment efforts via a cloud-based SaaS platform where organizations and talented...

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