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New features! Turn your social circle into a professional network

We are very excited to roll out to all new and current users some important new features which means you can kick your career up a gear in two minutes! Essentially, everything is now a lot cleverer and more streamlined. Now you can: Use Facebook to complete your profile in one click Connect with your [...]

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BraveNewTalent Welcomes Gautam!

Great companies are built by great people! This can’t be more true for us at BraveNewTalent. As we build our India operations, I am so excited to have Gautam Ghosh on board today as our first key hire since I started the journey with BraveNewTalent a few months ago. I was thinking as to what [...]

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Maren Hogan and Robert Scoble

A Whole New World

We’ve been busy little bees over here at BraveNewTalent, trying to incorporate new features, update campaigns, onboard new clients and spread our community tentacles to the farthest edge of the globe. Meanwhile, back on the ranch, in the States I’ve been trying to build up education around Talent Communities. And it’s not easy. For many, [...]

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Twenty companies more selective than Google

A new study from Glassdoor.com, a workplace culture website, ranked the toughest companies to interview at, analyzing user comments about the interview practices of specific companies. Do not be discouraged by this premise, this is just a collection of remarks from people who have been interviewed by really selective companies, but their experiences can help [...]

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Graduate careers: good news

With the economy downturn still upon us, this year’s University leavers are getting a tough time getting jobs as it gets ever more competitive. This year, however, students have been applying more often and earlier for graduate jobs. According to a recent statistic, a third more than last year, which is a good thing. For [...]

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Are you prepared to handle a stressful career?

If you want to combine a successful career with high quality of life, probably media jobs are not the best option for you. According to CareerCast 2011 report, airline pilots and media-related jobs are on the top of the most stressful jobs list. “Communications jobs can be high pressure with PR executives having to handle [...]

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Robert Peake, CTO of Brave New Talent

Clicking In to the Revolution

By Robert Peake When my wife and I decided for personal reasons to relocate to London from California, I was determined to find a good job, and the next stage in my career. In evaluating early-stage startup opportunities, I used many of the same criteria as an investor, looking foremost for a great idea, a [...]

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This journey is 1% finished

What building something involves

You may have seen my recent post on accepting the role of Head of Marketing, US here at BraveNewTalent. Then again, maybe not. In a nutshell, it describes how I took a long, hard look around at the HR/Recruiting space and chose this company as my place to land. It’s funny when I hear myself [...]

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Social Media Bandwagon

Are CVs dying?

Helen Dunne raises an interesting point on corpcommsmagazine.co.uk, on the use of Social Media as a recruitment tool, and how their use is catching on, along with concerns that hold back employers from actually putting them to use. Although the potential of social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook is obvious and more than welcome, privacy [...]

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UK Today’s Job Seeker report points to a shift in the job search process

In a comprehensive look at the interests, behaviours and motivations of current job seekers, ‘Simply Hired’ compounded the results of more than 60 user polls to form an enlightening expose on the future trends of the job market. One of the standout points of the article was the attention to social media outlets as a [...]

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