Meebo founder Elaine Wherry created a fake JavaScript engineer named Pete London to attract the best recruiters in Silicon Valley.
Guest Post We talk to a lot of company founders about recruiting, and their stories are all pretty similar: hiring great developers is hard, and it’s getting harder by the day. Most blame external forces--the talent shortage or competitors with deeper pockets--but in our experience very few point the finger where it truly belongs: right back at themselves.
Editor's Pick Facebook engineers all go through six weeks of indoctrination and learning the hard way to find the teams they'll be on for years. Here's our look inside the bootcamp process.
Editor's Pick Facebook's recruiters took to Reddit to respond to questions on what they look for in employees. A hint: Your crummy GPA isn't a deal-breaker.
Glassdoor has locked up $20 million in new financing to make the job-hunting process more transparent.
Editor's Pick Since the original web boom of the 1990s, Jon Marcus has been meeting and interviewing tech startup team members. Now, he knows what makes a team sink or swim -- and it's not the one percent of Wozniak-like coding geniuses.
Oracle has snapped up SelectMinds, a provider of recruiting automation tools, to bolster its portfolio of cloud-based employee and HR services.
Startup 500friends is deploying a disruptive new recruiting strategy to lure the most talented developers out there.
Twitter is opening its doors to open-source hackers for a few hours next Thursday night.
The OSS-themed open house will bring some of the brightest software engineers and developers to Twitter’s fancy new Art Deco headquarters for the “Twitter Runtime …
Hope it’s summery and warm where you are, funding news readers. The weather in San Francisco is lovely, if you ignore the dark wall of fog creeping slowly towards the VentureBeat office. The outlook is definitely sunny for these companies! …
A major hurdle in the job market these days isn’t the lack of jobs, but the lack of talented people to fill the vacant spots. Recruitment platform WillbeHired launches today with a $1 million seed round of funding to help …
We’ve come to expect the intimate inspection of our social media profiles by recruiters and hiring managers, but some are now asking applicants for their Facebook login information during interviews.
A fascinating story from the Associated Press reveals that some …
Guest Post
When it comes to bringing in the right talent, we tend to think that big-name brands have it easy — or at least easier.
High-caliber candidates flock to top-tier organizations like Google and Microsoft, reducing the recruitment process to a …
LinkedIn is poised to debut a new plug-in allowing job seekers to apply for available positions directly on an employer’s website, reports Gigaom.
With the “Apply With LinkedIn” plug-in, the company is attempting to standardize the job application process by …
