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Whether it's pining for a casual work environment, robust employee benefits like free gourmet food or career-advancing opportunities, expectations are high among young job seekers, and it is challenging companies to sweeten their perks.Mobile job searching is up 95% over the last 12 months, according to new data from Snagajob, giving skilled workers the ability to scour open positions at the tip of a finger and putting companies on the hot seat as they risk being passed up by their competition for a more enticing gig."Skilled labor is increasingly in demand, but there isn't enough supply of skilled, experienced people," said Dan Finnigan, Silicon Valley recruitment expert and Jobvite CEO.While hiring hasn't been robust since the recession, it did pick up in April. The economy added 165,000 jobs last month, up from 138,000 in the prior month, according to the latest jobs report.Jobs have been returning to the U.S., particularly in the energy and tech sectors, and transaction advisory ex...
Ask 10 entrepreneurs why startups fail and you'll get 10 different answers. But there's just one simple cause underlying all of them.
Kevin Baillie, co-founder of a visual effects company that works on major motion pictures, had never been in a car like his new Tesla Model S electric sedan, but som...
The Facebook Inc. executive who led some of the social network's key mobile initiatives is leaving the company, it was announced Thursday. Bubba Murarka, who was hea...
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp.(MSFT), a person familiar the matter said, b...
To say my dad and I had our differences is one hell of an understatement. We had some real knockdown drag-outs, over the years. Most of it stemmed from how brutally ...
The job market is still on the mend, but there is a bright spot in the market: tech startups.In fact, 87% of tech startups that participated in a recent survey by Si...
All the greats--Mayer, Page, Zuckerberg--have these things in common, and this list is what makes them better than all the rest.
France Telecom's Dailymotion, an online video-sharing website, must not remain exclusively French and all options need to be studied, the junior minister for digital...
Shares of LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) slumped more than 12% Friday as investors continued to digest its disappointing outlook despite much better-than-expected first-quar...
While online video sites like Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube and DailyMotion continue siphoning more advertising revenue from the broadcast conglomerates, streaming ...
Looks like Yahoo! CEO (NASDAQ:YHOO) Marissa Mayer is extending an olive branch, of sorts. Two months after announcing the end of the employee work-from-home program...
Real-money online poker was officially reintroduced in the U.S. on Tuesday with the launch of the country's first legal site operated by Ultimate Gaming, a subsidiar...
Just because you wear a black turtleneck, jeans, and sneakers doesn't mean you'll fit the shoes of the late Steve Jobs. This is what makes an entrepreneur.
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) inked a deal to buy social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Monday in what marks one of the largest social media deals in history, even s...
Target Corp said on Friday it opened a new San Francisco office to track down technology companies that can help the second-largest U.S. retailer grow its online com...
Intel Corp.'s (INTC) new chief executive vowed Thursday to rapidly grow the company's presence in the tablet and smartphone markets at a shareholder meeting that for...
Intel Corp.'s (INTC) new chief executive vowed Thursday to rapidly grow the company's presence in the tablet and smartphone markets at a shareholder meeting that for...
From Duck Dynasty and Dance Moms to Cake Boss and Counting Cars, small businesses are dominating reality TV. Stars from “Million Dollar Decorators,” “Pregnant in Heels,” “Life After Top Chef” and “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley ” dish on whether TV helped their businesses – or tore them to pieces.
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