recruiting

Watch: Twitter’s Cheeky Infomercial to Recruit Job Applicants

Liz Gannes in Social on January 27 at 6:14 pm PT

In an industry full of earnest nerds, Twitter hopes workplace humor is a selling point.

What Now? Hiring.

Peter Levine, GP, Andreessen Horowitz in Voices on January 19 at 5:40 pm PT

Hiring takes planning and time, and the process is often ad hoc or simply nonexistent. Don’t make hiring a batting average.

eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.

CaptainU Builds the Mint.com for Student Athletes

Drake Martinet in News on November 20, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

The path from high school sports superstar to college scholarship MVP can be a treacherous one. CaptainU — a start-up built by former collegiate athletes — helps navigate it.

AMD Hires Its New CIO Away From Hewlett-Packard

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT

Intel’s not the only company trying to woo executives away from Hewlett-Packard. Rival AMD just had better luck. Michael Wolf, HP’s VP for Information Technology and former CIO at Freescale, is joining AMD amid its ongoing difficult search for a new CEO.

OutCast Agency Head Joins Facebook as Tech Communications Lead

Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2011 at 4:54 pm PT

Caryn Marooney, the co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s premier tech communications firms, OutCast Agency, is joining Facebook to lead its tech public relations strategy. Marooney has actually led the Facebook account for OutCast, which she and Margit Wennmachers built and sold to Next Fifteen Communications Group in 2005 for over $10 million.

Talent War Crunches Start-Ups

Pui-Wing Tam and Stu Woo, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 28, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Internet start-ups across Silicon Valley are struggling to compete for talent amid the investment frenzy gripping Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Zynga Inc., with many smaller companies beefing up pay and recruiting and wading into the private-company share market to keep pace with their larger rivals.

Former Google China Head–and Now Start-up Whisperer–Kai-Fu Lee Talks Innovation (Works)

Kara Swisher in News on September 7, 2010 at 8:10 am PT

Last Friday, former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee dialed up BoomTown from that country for a chit-chat interview about his life since leaving the search giant one year ago and plunging into the world of incubation, recruiting and early-stage funding for start-ups there. Being president of Google’s China operations is far different from being CEO of Innovation Works, which just celebrated its first anniversary and, of course, is trying to create the next Google.