OppsPlace.com to Aggregate Minority Professionals and Business Owners Seeking Jobs in Corporate America
OppsPlace.com, a new web-based employment tool will be launching targeting minority professionals. OppsPlace.com provides companies with opportunities to find qualified, minority job seekers and minority businesses in one online destination. This job platform was created in collaboration with Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and Ariel M. Friedler, president of Symplicity Corporation. The site [...]
Read MoreIs Innovation Leading to Higher Unemployment?
Technology entrepreneurs love to talk about disruption while simultaneously touting themselves as job creators, but the two roles are often contradictory. By definition, disruptive innovations are characterized by a streamlining of process or product that is more efficient. Typically, the inefficiencies removed from the incumbent system result in less required labor. Less labor means fewer [...]
Read MoreWhen Tweeting Can Cost You Your Job, What About Retweets?
Last week, The Associated Press updated its social media guidelines to address the issue of retweets. Since then, the new guidelines’ concern with bias and objectivity sparked much online debate from reporters, social media enthusiasts, and media critics alike. David Carr of The New York Times Media Decoder blog tweeted: “AP to staff: Don’t retweet anything with an [...]
Read MoreGoogle Looking to Minority Students for Diversity Internship Program
Applications for the Google BOLD diversity internship program are now live! This past summer was Google’s largest batch of interns for the BOLD Diversity internship program. They are now in search of applicants for this coming summer. This program is designed to provide exposure to the technology industry for students who are historically under-represented in [...]
Read MoreBranchOut Launches Tool For Recruiters To Source Job Candidates On Facebook
BranchOut, a professional social network for Facebook, is announcing the launch of RecruiterConnect, a tool for recruiters and hiring managers to source job candidates on Facebook and build private talent networks. BranchOut says that RecruiterConnect is also the first enterprise software product available on the Facebook platform. Launched in July 2010, BranchOut is sort of like [...]
Read MoreBranchOut Brings Facebook-Focused Professional Networking To Job Search Platform CareerBuilder
BranchOut, a professional social network for Facebook, is announcing a partnership with jobs and resume site CareerBuilder to help users bring social networking into the job search experience. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in July 2010, BranchOut is sort of like aLinkedIn for Facebook because it allows you to network and find [...]
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