hiring
Because of MySpace, only boring people get jobs
Nick Douglas · 06/12/06 03:58PMCorporate recruiters work just like Gawker Media (and just like you before a blind date), the New York Times reveals — by sniffing around the MySpace and Facebook profiles of prospective hires. In a sloppily researched article (no, MySpace is not only two years old), the Times checks out how this phenomenon screws perfectly cool people over. Tien Nguyen (pictured) lost interview chances because he was clever. Other kids are getting turned down for having, well, great enthusiasm for their line of work:
Google spams for engineers
Nick Douglas · 06/12/06 03:27PMSand Hill Slave is up on the block
Nick Douglas · 06/08/06 05:18PMSand Hill Slave deserves a better job. The anonymous VC assistant is taking inquiries for employment, she says on her blog. And no, this isn't a chance to uncover her secret identity — interviews are by IM, and any contract must include a no-outing-the-blogger clause. In return, the Slave's employer won't end up on the blog.
Job market news: That's not slave labor, that's crowdsourcing!
Nick Douglas · 05/25/06 07:46PMFlickr moves to San Fran
Nick Douglas · 05/19/06 09:04PMDid everyone miss this detail in the Flickr blog? The photo sharing company is moving to Yahoo's San Francisco office. Meanwhile, Flickr looks to hire eight more professionals for its already ballooned post-acquisition staff, and founder Stewart Butterfield ostensibly posted the job listing himself.
Google's dumb publicist pitch leaked
Nick Douglas · 05/12/06 09:30AMMySpace goes shopping at MIT and Harvard
ndouglas · 04/26/06 01:37PMMIT and Harvard grads, sick of Stanford kids getting all the offers? Polish the CV, says a reader, and keep an eye out for Tom's goons. Getting picked up on MySpace never felt so good.
Joining Sergey's admin team: Meet your co-workers
ndouglas · 03/31/06 04:03PMGoogle seeks high-level leaker
ndouglas · 03/31/06 02:04PMThe support team for Larry and Sergey needs a fourth member. According to the Google Jobs post, the new hire will handle super-classified work like the Google founders' schedules, security, hotels (that bit's easy, only one room to reserve), and other "highly sensitive, confidential and non-routine information."
Lloyd Braun wants another assistant
ndouglas · 02/09/06 03:56PMLloyd Braun is digging in his heels again. The media group head (the one with one foot out the Yahoo door) is hiring another assistant, who must be experienced, proficient in Microsoft Office, team player, yadda yadda... lot of qualifications for someone whose job will last, like, another three weeks...