TechCrunch:
Even though unemployment is at the highest levels in a decade, companies are still finding it difficult to find the best qualified candidates to fill the positions that are available. The reason for that is because more often than not, the best qualified candidates are already employed and not necessarily looking for new j (Read More)
TechCrunch:
With the unemployment rate still above 9 percent, a lot of people are hitting the job boards. One set of companies that are growing under these conditions, at least in terms of Website traffic, are the job search engines. But the one that seems to be growing the fastest is Indeed. In July, Monster’s job search engine was (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
CareerBuilder, the online help-wanted site, has LinkedIn envy.The company launched a new social networking site aimed at job-seekers today: BriteFuse.com lets job seekers create their own profiles, add portfolios, Twitter feeds and Facebook updates, and network with other professionals on the site.Read the rest of this stor (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Judge tells Google to reveal anonymous blogger who called a Vogue model a "skank" [Times UK]Bing gained .5% marketshare in July, says ComScore [Reuters]Sequoia turns its Web site into a search bar [VentureBeat]Amazon and Facebook offered to buy iLike, too [TechCrunch]Microsoft files to stay injunction on Word [Reuters]Googl (Read More)
Google Blog Search: recruiting web 2.0:
lee odden_80. Ten Reasons Small Businesses Should Monitor Online Reputation. Social media has simplified the art of the soapbox shout. Information is shared with the masses now using easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools and is recorded ... Read More. lee odden_80 ... RECRUITMENT PORTAL Monster.com.au is to provide ANZ's runningmybusin (Read More)
Submitted by Tbivol
from blog:
From director J.J. Abrams and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci ( Transformers, MI: III ) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, Star Trek, featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before. Star Trek explores the early Starfleet careers of future Enterprise officers (Read More)
TwitLinks:
This morning’s news about the latest unemployment statistics was dismal and quite sobering. The U.S. has lost 5 million jobs in the past 16 months, and the unemployment rate has hit a 25 year high, reaching 8.5%. Our own TechCrunch layoff tracker reports nearly 320,000 tech jobs lost since August. While jobs are being shed (Read More)
Submitted by Herecomestheboss:
Apparently apprenticeships are on the up in the UK. Good old Gordon Brown is creating 21,000 new apprentices. I wonder if he'll create a supreme Alan Sugar style overlord of the apprentices? One can only hope. I'd apply for that job!. (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg sold SocialMedian, the social news startup he founded last year, to German social network Xing for $4 million and a earnout worth as much as $3.5 million.In March, SocialMedian announced a seed round from the Washington Post's interactive division.TechCrunch reported the deal first, we're t (Read More)
: "Former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg sold SocialMedian, the social news startup he founded last year, to German social network Xing for $4 million and a earnout worth as much as $3.5 million."
if you chaps want to monitize Xing - see www.getmobster.com - using MoiP and offering cheap mobile calling to business users. Dial tone on your mobile is a world first.
: Great news! I am glad Jason's excellent work stands paid. In a Business World propelled just on profit motive, Jason's work must serve as an example for others to follow that entrepreneural creativity offers more than monetary profit. In the long run, we can bank upon internet related technologies for finding solutions of un-/under-employment problems. Perhaps 'relationship economy' will continue offering boder-less and unlimitied opportunities for those who can sieze these.
Silicon Alley Insider:
For over ten years I've been in the unique position of being both a CEO and a journalist in the technology space. My first company produced Silicon Alley Reporter magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. At my second company, Weblogs Inc., I was a blogger and CEO. Today I'm the CEO of Mahalo, and the editor (Read More)
: Another in a great series of newsletter's. I'm surprised he let it be published. I thought it was meant for just his newsletter List. His lat letter about the responsibilities of the CEO should be published also. It was one of his best!
Silicon Alley Insider:
Location-based mobile social networking is just getting started in the U.S., and there's a lot of hype surrounding it. But will that hype turn into dollars?Research firm ABI Research predicts the nascent industry will turn into a $3.3 billion market worldwide by 2013. Where will that money come from? Location-based mobile a (Read More)