Linux skills now more employable than ever
When I first started using Linux, back in the late 1990s and the Red Hat 5.2 era, the skills I gained weren’t very useful to many employers. I initially hoped that learning Linux would help me spring...
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Hour.ly, a New York City startup that matches temporary job seekers and freelancers with prospective gigs and employers online, unveiled two new features and partnerships on Tuesday with Trufina and...
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Software Is Eating All the Jobs Too
A few months ago I was giving a talk in my hometown of Memphis, TN, and someone asked what the city could do to ignite more entrepreneurship among inner city kids. My immediate answer was teach coding–...
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EmployInsight Grabs $1M For Its Employee Measurement Platform (And NYSE As...
EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees’ “soft skills” in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner,...
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Work 3.0: How The Employment Model Needs to Change
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Gary Swart, the CEO of oDesk, the fast-growing online workplace where eContractors are currently earning more than $300 million a year. With the economy...
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SortBox Replaces Email As A New Way To Review Job Applicants
With a down economy, and an overwhelming number of job applicants to any open position (well, maybe not in tech startups, but everywhere else), there’s a real need for tools that help businesses better...
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YC-Backed Pomello Helps Teams Determine Whether Job Applicants Will Fit In
Y Combinator-backed Pomello wants recruiting to be more about getting new employees who will get along with the rest of the team rather than pushing fancy perks and competing on pay. At least, that...
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The Essentials Of Hiring An Exceptional Startup Team
For early stage companies to be successful, founders need to develop a thoughtful recruiting process, and need to do it early on. Read More
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Why Business Leaders Need To Take On The Education Revolution
Have you hired someone straight out of college in the last decade? If you have, it comes as no shock that today’s education system simply isn’t creating job-ready employees. Far from the...
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LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education
A new book declaring the end of the golden age of economic growth has set the wonky world of economics aflame. Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth juxtaposes the world-altering...
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Americans think most human jobs could be automated by 2065, finds Pew
Humans are nothing if not contrary. Technology destroying jobs is something most Americans accept will happen within their lifetimes, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, just not to...
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UK’s Onfido raises $25M as it brings its background checking platform to the US
The rise of on-demand startups and other fast-growing businesses like online marketplaces has created a need for reliable ways to verify new hires and customers to make sure they are cut out for the...
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Tech companies can make retention of female employees a priority
The technology industry has a problem with retaining qualified female employees. According to a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, 56 percent of women in computing jobs will leave their...
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Swiss reject universal basic income in public referendum
The people of Switzerland have rejected a proposal to give a universal basic income (UBI) to every citizen, with almost 77 per cent saying ‘no’ vs 23 per cent in favor. Read More
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SmartRecruiters raises $30 million for hiring software
Because managing a large pool of job applicants can be cumbersome, SmartRecruiters thinks its software has the right tools to keep you organized in your candidate search. The team counts clients like...
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Mentat will apply for jobs on your behalf and guarantee you get an interview
Did you know nowadays there are more people who dislike their jobs than like them? While there was once a time where the vast majority of Americans were happy with their current job, now anywhere from...
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inploi is another jobs app that wants to kill off the service industry CV
Walking around the neighborhood handing out CVs in the hopes of scoring shifts in a local cafe or restaurant has never been an efficient job-search process. But workers in the service industry still...
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LinkedIn will now let you discreetly signal when you’re looking for a job
One of the hallmarks of any social network is how it pushes people to share their experiences with others, but increasingly we’ve seen a lot of moves by social platforms to give people the option to...
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Impraise lets you tell your coworkers what a good job they’re doing
“We’ve come a long long way together, through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should using a 360-degree feedback tool sold as as SaaS by founders...
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President-elect Trump: It’s time for the art of the new deal
New jobs are going to come from technology, not traditional manufacturing. California can lead in building a new economy. Read More
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