Lyft claims Uber cost its drivers major money with recruitment tactics
Uber’s driver recruitment program SLOG is hitting Lyft drivers where it hurts: Their pockets.
Recruitment giant Randstad invests in freelancer portal Twago
The investment gives Randstad a way into the new world of online freelance recruitment, and Twago a way into Randstad’s considerable enterprise customer base.
HackerRank brings in $9 million to help companies land good recruits
The job-recruitment company’s platform uses custom-tailored coding challenges to help organizations get better recruits as well as offering developers the chance to shine in front of would-be employers.
Picture-centric LinkedIn rival Somewhere reveals new investors
The Berlin-based firm, which is developing a more touchy-feely alternative to LinkedIn’s legacy clutter, has taken on serial entrepreneur Thomas Madsen-Mygdal as chairman.
Splinter.me wants to replace your resume and offer career guidance
The data-centric Egyptian-Romanian-Belgian startup, which is in beta for now, has introduced new features to help recruiters and job-seekers find common connections across disparate networks and search using natural language.
Swiss ‘social recruitment’ startup Silp partners up with semantics specialist x28
Silp creates jobseeker profiles by pulling data off Facebook profiles and other public sources, while x28 specializes in smart matching techniques. Together, they hope to build better recruitment technology.
Despite worries over recruitment startup DeveloperAuction, VCs are showing interest
DeveloperAuction co-founder Matt Mickiewicz responds to concerns raised about the company, which runs a disruptive recruitment website, and says venture capitalists have shown investment interest.
How Entelo uses data to make your résumé passé
A startup called Entelo is trying to make résumés a thing of the past by aggregating profiles of tech workers from their public data, and then feeding those results to recruiters. The secret sauce is an algorithm for spotting when someone might be looking for work.
DMGT snaps up Jobrapido to build digital recruitment business
The market for job classified ads may be gloomy at present, but Mail Online publisher DMGT is buying further in to it, by acquiring the Jobrapido recruitment site for up to €30 million
France’s Viadeo has ‘headstart’ on LinkedIn in China
With $32m in the bank, French professional networking site Viadeo is expanding internationally — and the head of its Chinese operation says that the company is expecting to go head to head with Reid Hoffman and LinkedIn.