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Theranos slashes another 41 percent of its workforce
Not a week goes by and it seems like we hear more bad news about Silicon Valley’s darling turned cautionary tale Theranos. The latest bit is a whopping 155 layoffs at the company today. The one drop...
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Shiftgig raises $20M more to connect hourly workers with open jobs
The rise in on-demand services from the likes of Uber, Lyft and Postmates is fuelling a new workforce of freelancers in the service industry who are not tied to single places of employment and can...
View ArticleDoes Silicon Valley have a moral responsibility to stop developing robots?
Should Silicon Valley exercise its moral authority to stop developing this job-killing technology? Andrew McAfee, author of “The Second Machine Age” and the just published “Machine, Platform, Crowd”...
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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...
View ArticleThe Essentials Of Hiring An Exceptional Startup Team
In today’s heated market, recruiting for top talent is more competitive than ever. Employees have more career options – which means that established technology companies and startups are often...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleLinkedIn 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 impact...
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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...
View ArticleUK’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...
View ArticleTech 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...
View ArticleSwiss 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. They were voting on the idea in...
View ArticleSmartRecruiters 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...
View ArticleMentat 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...
View Articleinploi 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 do...
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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...
View ArticleImpraise 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...
View ArticlePresident-elect Trump: It’s time for the art of the new deal
Donald Trump was elected on a pledge to bring more jobs to more Americans. He pitched his deal-making skills as the key to job growth. But anyone who has been paying close attention to the economy for...
View ArticleTheranos slashes another 41 percent of its workforce
Not a week goes by and it seems like we hear more bad news about Silicon Valley’s darling turned cautionary tale Theranos . The latest bit is a whopping 155 layoffs at the company today. The one drop...
View ArticleShiftgig raises $20M more to connect hourly workers with open jobs
The rise in on-demand services from the likes of Uber, Lyft and Postmates is fuelling a new workforce of freelancers in the service industry who are not tied to single places of employment and can work...
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