SuccessFactors just can’t stop acquiring, even while it’s being acquired
Even while the big fish is swallowing it, the medium fish is still gobbling up an even smaller fish.
Just four days after the news broke that German enterprise software giant SAP is buying SuccessFactors, SuccessFactors has a little acquisition of its own to announce: It’s buying Jobs2Web for $110 million in cash.
Jobs2Web is a site that helps companies manage their online recruiting and hiring processes. It was founded in 2003 and is based … Continue Reading
Identified: What kind of recruiting tool have Eric Schmidt, the Drapers and DST invested in?
Launching publicly today, Identified is a professional social network for adults younger than 30, that’s built on top of Facebook and backed by $5.5 million from Google’s Eric Schmidt, Tim and Bill Draper and Alexander Tamas of DST.
What Identified hopes to do is create a rich and engaging dialog between young job aspirants, based on their personal and professional data, and potential employers. Identified is different from LinkedIn in that it’s not just a … Continue Reading
Why SXSW's party in Austin matters
The Internet, like soylent green, is made of people. And startups can never get enough.
That’s the insight I’ve gathered from years of attending South By Southwest Interactive, the annual conference/festival/five-day rave held every year in Austin in conjunction with the more established SXSW film and music festivals. (You can show your veteran status, or fake it, by calling it “South By.”) The streets of Texas’s capital city are swarming with San Franciscans; I knew … Continue Reading
Marc Bodnick opens up about his move to Quora — on Quora
When VentureBeat first reported on Silicon Valley investor Marc Bodnick’s departure from Elevation Partners, the private-equity firm he cofounded, I noted his enthusiasm for Quora, the online question-and-answer community founded by Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo, two early Facebook employees.
When rumors broke that he was actually taking a formal job at Quora, I asked him — on Quora — how the startup recruited him.
This morning, he finally answered my question! Here’s his response:… Continue Reading
3 steps for building an extensive talent pipeline
(Editor’s note: Mike Cassidy is CEO of Undertone Networks. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Finding and keeping good talent can be a difficult task in any industry, but in the New York online ad market (where we compete) it’s especially challenging, as the sheer number of “cool” companies in the space makes it highly competitive from a recruiting standpoint. Over the years I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to find and nurture … Continue Reading
The Resumator scores $100K to make hiring less of a chore
The Resumator, a startup dedicated to simplifying the hiring process for businesses, has landed $100,000 in seed funding, the company told VentureBeat.
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania company has developed web-based social recruiting and applicant tracking tools that let you do everything required to attract and select new hires. The Resumator lets you easily advertise open positions via social networks, post positions to free job aggregators (potentially saving money by avoiding expensive job board sites) and create … Continue Reading
5 ways your start-up can get better hires
(Editors note: Bryan Johnson is the CEO of Braintree. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Finding good people for your start-up is tough when you don’t personally know many candidates, aren’t well connected or well known and don’t have a lot of money to pay a recruiter. But sometimes, a group effort can make the process easier.
During the past three years, our company’s employees have collectively reached out to friends, written job postings, … Continue Reading
Debunking the 3 biggest recruiting myths
(Editor’s note: Anne Berkowitch is CEO and co-founder of SelectMinds. She submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
With the economy on the rebound, businesses are ready to hire – but as many businesses know, finding talented people that will take them to the next level can be an immense challenge. In today’s market, getting the golden candidate through the door takes a lot more than just posting a listing and praying they notice.
There are a … Continue Reading
DOJ strikes down no-poaching agreements between Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe, and others
The U.S. Justice Department has struck down agreements that prevented some of the largest tech companies in the world from poaching employees from each other in a settlement today that included heavy hitters like Google, Intel and Apple.
Six major tech companies, including those listed above and Pixar, Intuit and Adobe, agreed among themselves to refrain from cold-calling employees at other companies and attempting to recruit them — a practice that stifles competition for highly … Continue Reading
Can Microsoft afford losing its Silicon Valley ambassador?
Microsoft has a sprawling campus in tech’s heartland, right by the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. It has thousands of employees in the Bay Area. But the departure of a high-profile evangelist once called the software giant’s “ambassador to Silicon Valley” raises questions about whether its strategy can work.
Anand Iyer, whose formal title is senior product manager and who led Microsoft initiatives to woo startups and mobile developers, wrote on his blog today that … Continue Reading
An open letter to Groupon's CEO: How to get ahead of your next PR crisis
Dear Andrew:
It was great sitting down with you on stage at the DEMO conference this week. We talked a bit about the challenges of your runaway growth and the difficulties of applying your innovative collective-buying model to small, local businesses. It was a friendly chat, I admit — you even joked about offering me a PR job. (Seriously, would you tech mogul dudes please stop poaching VentureBeat talent?)
As flattering as the offer was, … Continue Reading
DEMO: Uvisor launches full-service career-advice site with automated matchmaking
Uvisor is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
Today at the DEMO conference, Uvisor is launching its full-service career-advice website, offering services from free job search to automated job matchmaking.
While there are lots of job sites out there, Uvisor hopes its automated … Continue Reading
14 tips for building a startup sales team
Uvisor is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
Today at the DEMO conference, Uvisor is launching its full-service career-advice website, offering services from free job search to automated job matchmaking.
While there are lots of job sites out there, Uvisor hopes its automated … Continue Reading
Interviewing? Look for quick thinking, not 'right answers'
Uvisor is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
Today at the DEMO conference, Uvisor is launching its full-service career-advice website, offering services from free job search to automated job matchmaking.
While there are lots of job sites out there, Uvisor hopes its automated … Continue Reading
The ABCs of interviews (and the DEFs)
Uvisor is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
Today at the DEMO conference, Uvisor is launching its full-service career-advice website, offering services from free job search to automated job matchmaking.
While there are lots of job sites out there, Uvisor hopes its automated … Continue Reading
