1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: PAC Labs/GILD, San Francisco, California

PAC Labs creates solutions to help employers the best technology talent anywhere in the world. The company’s flagship product is GILD, a tool that PAC Labs describes as “where social gaming meets career advancement.”

The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Jobscience ,San Francisco

Jobscience makes Force.com-based recruiting and talent management applications that help companies to improve the quality of their talent base by helping them find, train, and retain the most highly qualified employees.

Offshoring Secrets: How Can Small Centers Attract Talent?

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. “Fear of the unknown” is the biggest deterrent when it comes to choosing the next job. In India, most of the time, the prospective candidate is not the sole decision maker in accepting an offer. Parents, spouse, siblings, in-laws and friends play a major role in

Read Full Article »

The Mini-Monsters are Coming

By Jörg Überla, Guest Author [Note: Jorg reports from Germany on the European Online Jobs scene. Evidently, a lot of Concept Arbitrage under way on the other side of the Atlantic.] Regarding the marketing and financial power of large recruitment sites like Monster, it seems hard to establish competitors. But the opposite is true, at

Read Full Article »

Job Search Engine Indeed CEO Paul Forster (Part 2)

SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company? PF: Online recruitment has been dominated by job boards, particularly Careerbuilder, Monster and Hotjobs and specialized sites like Dice for technology professionals. Indeed.com makes it possible for job seekers to search across these sites to find exactly the right jobs. Job seekers click

Read Full Article »

Job Search Engine Indeed CEO Paul Forster (Part 1)

We have been reviewing the Online Jobs vertical at length, and in this interview, will be speaking with Paul Forster, co-Founder and CEO of vertical search engine Indeed. SM: Please describe your personal background. PF: My professional background is in finance. I was an investment manager with the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm

Read Full Article »

Why Silicon Valley Lacks True GMs?

I made the comment in an earlier post that Yahoo now needs true GMs, not just glorified functional managers. As I wrote that piece, it made me reflect on the significance of what I just said. Silicon Valley is not a place that has that many true General Managers. In the sense that GE or

Read Full Article »

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 12)

When Maggie arrived at Citizen, one of her first goals was to develop a strong leadership team. Here she discusses her philosophy on establishing a leadership team as well as how she assembled her current team at Citizen. SM: This is probably not a good question for a public company CEO, but it looks like

Read Full Article »