DeveloperAuction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

The startup's first round will help it get more developers more jobs through an interesting, almost game-like mechanism.

Indeed.com reaches 100M monthly visitors, handles half of all U.S. job search traffic

Job-finding and recruiting sites are hotter than heat, but no-one's hotter than the relatively ancient old man on the block: 8-year-old Indeed.com.

KarmaHire launches public beta test next week to flip the funnel on hiring and recruiting

Every year, the hiring and recruiting industry spends about $9 billion on job ads for a pitiful success rate of under 4 percent. KarmaHire is is trying to change that, to flip the funnel on hiring -- and it's succeeding, so far.

Highly-paid, well-educated, and employed people use Twitter for constant, background job hunting (Jobvite poll)

A company's best, most educated, and highest-paid staff are continually trolling on Twitter for a better job. They're not actively looking for a new job, just keeping an ear to the ground in case one comes up.

Facebook’s government partnership on jobs results in barely functional app

Close enough for government work? We guess so. But these days, we expect more from Facebook. The now-publicly traded company can't make big promises about delivering hope to jobless Americans then return a result so uncharacteristically subpar.

Now at its critical mass, LinkedIn launches new profiles

We got a small sneak peek at the new design a couple months ago, but today we're finally getting the full story -- including the man-behind-the-curtain mechanics of how it works.

Job searches suck, but this startup thinks it can make them sexier. And shorter.

Bright is launching today with a tall promise: It wants to find you a job. Not just any job: the job. The right job for you, the perfect match for your abilities and interests.

Ideally, if you’re only looking at …

ApplyApp.ly wants to find you a job, with science!

Finding a job is hard. You grabbed a sales job after college, but you’re terrified of phone calls and your eyes glaze over while looking at sales figures. It’s all because you’re truly an introvert, an abstract thinker, and better …

Simply Hired fires a big part of its staff (exclusive)

Updated at 5:03 p.m. PT with more info about which teams were let go.

VentureBeat has learned that job search startup Simply Hired has laid off approximately 20 percent of its staff, according a source close to the company.

After …

As vets come home, White House, Google & LinkedIn try to help them find new jobs

I remember when my stepdad got out of the Navy for the first time. Finding a new, non-military job ended up being so challenging that he eventually gave up and enlisted again. He didn’t get out of the Navy for …