paidContent:UK:
Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months (Read More)
ERE Articles | Electronic Recruiting Exchange:
A new mobile sourcing application is having its coming out party today. AutoSearch Mobile for the iPhone and iPod Touch became available on the iPhone Store a month ago, but today marks its official debut at $4.99.
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johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views:
Recruiting.comThis past week, I had a couple of very nice (related) surprises.Jeff Seely, CEO of Recruiting.com (nee Jobster), called and we had a delightful conversation about the joys of taking over and remaking a high-flyi (Read More)
johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views:
Do you remember Dave Lefkow? He was a working member of the recruiting community having tackled TMP and Jobster. Several years ago, he was the brightest candle in the box.He’s had amazing luck in the years since he left our w (Read More)
Fistful of Talent:
You think Kevin Bacon's got six degrees of separation? You do too. Consider this one from my own life.In January of 2008, I started putting together a little skunkworks site that was almost named Talent Entourage. Good t (Read More)
Submitted by marvsmith
from Twitter:
Jobster Reborn Away From The Cutting Edge: Remember Jobster? Of course you do. How could any recruiter forget t.. http://bit.ly/FJfVS. (Read More)
Cheezhead:
Jason Goldberg, the man (in)famously behind the founding of Jobster and then non-job-specific SocialMedian has a new place to drop content: betashop. Like the site says:betashop is the website of Jason Goldberg, serial entrep (Read More)
ERE Articles | Electronic Recruiting Exchange:
If a startup can land $3 million in angel investment in a market like this, it’s a company worth watching even if it is a close DNA relative to Facebook and LinkedIn and only a gene or two removed from what Jobster once hoped (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The Wall Street Journal has launched a new vertical financial jobs site Fins.com, its first jobs/career launch since it started with CareerJournal way back. Kevin Hatfield, the GM of Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) Ventures (DJV) and f (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Despite smaller budgets, many companies are still hiring. How are they searching for employees? Most are spending more time on social networking sites and less money on job boards like CareerBuilder and Monster, according to (Read More)
Google Blog Search: recruiting web 2.0:
What your community can tell you about R&D is the basis behind Ship It!, a business model introduced earlier this year to XING by Jason Goldberg, it’s Chief Product Officer who joined the company earlier this year after his W (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
UrbanSpoon, a restaurant recommendation service, started out with a simple plan. It was three former Jobster employees,. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
UrbanSpoon, a restaurant recommendation service, started out with a simple plan. It was three former Jobster employees, Ethan Lowry, Adam Doppelt and Patrick O’Donnell who set out to see if they could build a company in today (Read More)
Submitted by infodiva:
A very quick exit for a service just launched: Socialmedian, the New York City-based social news service launched by former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, has been acquired by Xing, the Germany-headquartered European business so (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 se (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
A very quick exit for a service just launched: Socialmedian, the New York City-based social news service launched by former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, has been acquired by Xing, the Germany-headquartered European business so (Read More)
Submitted by matthooper
from Google Reader:
Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that’s strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for an undisclosed amount approximately $7.5 million in total, a mix of $4 million in cash up (Read More)
Mashable!:
There are plenty of sites out there to find a job: CareerBuilder, Monster, Craigslist and LinkedIn to name a few, but where do top execs go when they get the axe? While one man’s taken his search to begging in the streets (Read More)