Jobvite brings job listings to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Jobvite brings job listings to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Even on “fun” social networks, you can’t escape from business. Specifically, you can’t escape from job recruitment, especially not now that Jobvite, which offers recruitment tools via online subscription, is integrating with Facebook, professional network LinkedIn, and microblogging service Twitter.

Jobvite’s new tools sound compelling because they let you integrate a recruitment campaign across so many sites and services. The Facebook and LinkedIn applications are pretty similar. Basically, a company sends a listing to its employees,… Continue Reading

Benchmark Capital keeps hiring — adds four more professionals

Benchmark Capital keeps hiring — adds four more professionals

Benchmark Capital, the respected Silicon Valley venture capital firm that backed eBay, continues a hiring spree: It has just hired three new entrepreneurs-in-residence, and an executive-in-residence.

And it could herald a new model for the way VCs work in Silicon Valley: By outsourcing, or perhaps more accurately, insourcing.

The new appointees include Rob Bearden (top left), who was a senior executive at JBoss, Red Hat and OpenSpan; Lewis Cirne (top right), founder of Wily Technology; Dan Finnigan… Continue Reading