College recruiting is becoming increasingly competitive. Companies have begun to realize that top graduates not only bring a lot of talent and energy to the table, but they also tend to cost less than more experienced prospects. But in order to successfully woo those fortunate enough to have their pick, businesses need to begin the recruiting process earlier. If they’re going to stand a chance… → Read More
GroupTalent launched in December of 2011 to offer solace to the many startups struggling to find top technical talent. Some might stand opposed to this ongoing “talent drain,” while others will call it a full-blown war. Whatever you call it, startups today are hard-pressed to lure top developers and engineers away from the mighty perks and siren calls of companies like Google, Facebook and… → Read More
It’s a tough job market out there for college job applicants, and students are looking for any way that can help them stand out from the crowd. While an increasing number of students look to apply to jobs online, the information that might give students at improving their candidacy and landing a job isn’t something they want to share publicly, it’s confidential. As a result, most of this… → Read More
HireRabbit, a company offering tools for Facebook-based recruiting, is exiting private beta today with the launch of its software-as-a-service platform for building a customized job sites on Facebook Pages. The system lets companies set up both a custom job and culture tab on their Facebook profile, portions of which can be automated by syncing with the company’s existing hiring systems. → Read More
Launched in 2010, Austin-based MyEdu set out to help students reduce the cost of earning a college diploma and remove the friction from every aspect of the higher education process, from deciding on the right school to finding post-graduate employment. Since then, the startup has been methodically collecting data from students as well as official academic data from universities to identify… → Read More
In July of last year, Jon Bischke and John McGrath co-founded Entelo to help companies large and small identify and recruit technical talent. Since then, the startup has been in limited beta, providing only brief glimpses into what they were building, but that officially ended this morning. → Read More
“People crave feedback on their professional lives,” say Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, co-founders and co-CEOs of Identified, a young San Francisco-based startup that has been hard at work at gamifying the job search. Today, while millions of resumes live in the cloud on sites like LinkedIn, job seekers still aren’t providing all the relevant details on their online and social profiles that… → Read More
One year ago I wrote an article called “Why The New Guy Can’t Code,” about how the industry-standard process for hiring software engineers is broken, shortsighted, and counterproductive. It remains my most-read TC post. Of course, I was far from the first to say so, and even farther from the last; every few weeks a similar rant bubbles onto the home page of Hacker News.
And yet recruiting… → Read More
The professional networking space has been heating up over the last few years, with a number of players vying for control of our digital resumes, job and employment searches, and career buildings. For all intents and purposes, LinkedIn controls the mindshare, but a couple of newcomers are beginning to give the leader a run for its money. The first is BranchOut, the professional networking service… → Read More
Other than Salesforce, no cloud SaaS provider handles more transactions than Taleo. The stats the company revealed to me about its 2011 are staggering. The Taleo talent and recruitment solution helped enterprises hire 3.1 million people, roughly 15% of the year’s US hires. It had 50 to 60 million visitors to the job listing sites and other services it powers. Bootstrapped but now publicly… → Read More
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by (@msuster) Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
There is an old management adage that says, “Hire slowly, fire fast.” The idea has become conventional wisdom. It says that you need to take due care in selecting team members. It also says that you need to act quickly when your… → Read More
Zapoint, a career and talent management platform, has acquired Jobster from Recruiting.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both sites are planning to retain their separate identities, however; Jobster will offer new career management tools that are “Powered by Zapoint”.
Founded in 2004, Seattle-based Jobster is an online job board that has had a rough time over the past few years. The… → Read More
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