LinkedIn’s brand hasn’t exactly been associated with small business employment over the years. The unspoken word for businesses that … Read more
Sifting Through the Winners and Losers After Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition
Microsoft dropped a bomb earlier this week by paying a reported $7.5 billion for GitHub, the world’s biggest collection of tech talent on the web. … Read more
Microsoft Reportedly Acquires GitHub
It has been a weekend of gossip and speculation, but it appears Microsoft and GitHub have agreed to an acquisition and the arrangement could be announced … Read more
Using Your Profile to Attract Candidates
There has been quite the conversation about company branding in our industry and how this is helping drive candidates into the process. Why Coca-Cola or … Read more
Here We Go Again – LinkedIn Updates Its User Agreement
There are times in my life when I hate that I am right about something. Like the time I thought an employee was stealing from my store back in the day and … Read more
My Initial Thoughts on The Glassdoor Acquisition
Glassdoor didn’t make much of a splash when it launched back in 2008. Job boards like Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs owned the headlines, while … Read more
Monster Touts ‘Humanizing’ Job Search With Latest Updates
At its core, the Internet isn’t particularly human. That help-wanted sign in the window of your local convenient store is even less so. Putting … Read more
LinkedIn Referrals Set to Close Down Later This Month
If Indeed getting out of the candidate referral business wasn’t enough to convince you that it’s a failed business model, how about LinkedIn? … Read more
New WebClipDrop Feature Lets Users Find, Export Email Addresses of LinkedIn Group Members
With all the sourcing tools out there, it’s easy to forget about WebClipDrop, the solution that launched a couple of years ago by Jobs2Web founder, … Read more
Is Facebook’s Breach a Lens to Reexamine LinkedIn?
With daily revelations about Facebook, and our data (and I use that term loosely), and the nuances of constitutes privacy on the aforementioned social … Read more