The initiative, known as "Hire Smart," kicks off with a free event featuring a host of speakers, including "Apprentice" winner Bill Rancic, Intuit CEO Brad Smith, and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner.
Talent Analytics measures people, weighing their preferences and motivations and how those characteristics predict job performance. "Our niche is companies who have employees," jokes founder Greta Roberts.
Social game giants plans to use this to keep employees around and on target, even as its stock price sinks downward.
Yahoo employees are celebrating the fact that their chief executive, Carol Bartz, has been fired.
Former Yahoo vice president Brad Garlinghouse greeted the news with a gleefully nasty tweet: “Ding dong the witch is dead.”
He’s not alone. According to …
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only Facebook employee using Google’s new social offering, Google+. At least 62 Facebook employees have signed up for the competing social service, according to an unofficial list compiled by Huffington Post Senior Editor Craig Kanalley.
“Why …
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(Editor’s note: Don Rainey is a general partner at Grotech Ventures. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
In the world of startups, success or failure can be hard to consistently predict. One thing that’s sure, however, is that anyone who …
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(Editor’s note: Pamela Springer is CEO of Manta, which provides information on small companies. She submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
As strange as it might sound, the key to success in startups is not always knowing where you are in …
