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LinkedIn announced it is rolling out ProFinder nationwide after a successful 10-month pilot. ProFinder is essentially a marketplace for freelance white collar professionals. ProFinder models itself similarly to companies like Upwork, Fiverr, and Maven… Read more

Let’s be honest. The reason that your recruiting messages are not completely personalized is due to time.  It just takes too long to engage candidates already in process, let alone… Read more

Facebook officially launched Marketplace this week. It’s about what you’d think: Post an item for sale via your Facebook account and potential buyers contact you via Messenger. The buyer and… Read more

I know that I have done a review of Hiretual before, but I am excited about the latest update. Currently, Hiretual acts like a “Recruiting Assistant” and obtains additional information about candidates on… Read more

I sat down for lunch yesterday and took out my phone and dialed-up the web site for the HR Technology Conference, which is going down in Chicago next week. Surprisingly,… Read more

Many of the rumors around Microsoft buying LinkedIn for as much as it did was speculation that Salesforce was driving up the price by making it well known they wanted the professional… Read more

If you’ve been avoiding Snapchat, whether personally or professionally, it’s time to start paying attention. Aside from the fact that the mobile phenomenon enjoys 100 million users daily, and that… Read more

Things are moving pretty fast. In the workplace, anything that can be automated is being automated. Robots are taking over. Artificial intelligence promises to make us all obsolete replace countless corporate functions…. Read more

Using badges to encourage competition and progress is nothing new. Whether we’re talking the military, the Girl Scouts or Foursquare, simply rewarding achievement with some sort of visual does wonders…. Read more

Portfolium, an 18-person start-up based in San Diego has raised $6.6 million in a first round of venture capital funding, led by SJF Ventures. The company was launched in 2014 by… Read more

The number of herculean success stories in the online classifieds space as it pertains to job postings over the past 10 years are few and far between. Two obvious medal… Read more

The last time they counted, there were 53 million people doing freelance work in the U.S., which is roughly 34 percent of the entire workforce. People who freelance contribute an estimated… Read more

Keyword stuffing is the act of, well, stuffing a web page with keywords, hoping to get found online. It’s commonly referred to as spam. And before Google got pretty good at… Read more

Forget what I said about CareerBuilder circling the wagons. Turns out, Tegna, the company that was spun off from Gannett last year and 53 percent stakeholder in CareerBuilder, has other ideas. Announced today, Tegna,… Read more

After Monster announced its acquisition to Randstad last month, one of the inevitable questions that arose was, “What’s going to happen to CareerBuilder now?” The answer is becoming more clear with their latest purchase…. Read more