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onsmak,Monster,firmplay,HourlyNerd,skillhoundapp,smarterer,CareerApp,BeACofounder,@HireProbability,workable,risingreen,crowdrecruiting,Cangrade,BoardProspects,onthebar,dunwello,@higherme.jobs,referralbonus,MedstroDotCom,hoursforequity,@talentresponse,
SMAK - social recruiting recruiting data mining business development

SMAK

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Personal HubSpot for Recruiters
 SMAK was acquired by Unified Inbox Smak alerts recruiters to hot opportunities and highlights competitive risk in their network. We automate this by using personal communications like email and social media as a way to mine big data. We deliver our services in ...
Monster - search recruiting employment

Monster

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The global leader in connecting people to job opportunities.
 Find the job that's right for you. Use Monster's resources to create a killer resume, search for jobs, prepare for interviews, and launch your career.
FirmPlay - SaaS recruiting human resources employment

FirmPlay

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Visual + Data Driven Job Search
 FirmPlay is a career website that helps companies create visually immersive profiles showcasing their workplace culture to more effectively source candidates that are a good fit. The result: job seekers get a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work at ...
HourlyNerd - consulting small and medium businesses recruiting freelancers

HourlyNerd

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Marketplace connecting elite freelance business talent to businesses.
 HourlyNerd is an online marketplace that connects experienced top-tier MBAs directly to businesses for project-based work. The platform connects alumni of premier firms (McKinsey & Co., Google, Goldman Sachs, etc.) with businesses looking for a flexible, cost-efficient ...
ReferralMob - mobile crowdsourcing social recruiting recruiting

ReferralMob

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Mobile crowdsourced recruiting
 In our knowledge-based economy, workers are changing jobs more frequently than seen in previous generations. And our largest generation, Millennials, is not responsive to “old school” recruiting methods: cold calls and job boards are ignored. Instead, as obsessive ...
Plexx - education recruiting training

Plexx

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Training the world on a mobile device.
 Plexx is allowing young people without college degrees to enter the workforce via a mobile training platform. This app allows them to train skills, show skills acquired, and apply to jobs, all from their smartphones.
SkillHound - enterprise software analytics big data recruiting

SkillHound

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dead simple recruiting for technical teams
 SkillHound is sourcing for technical teams made easy. We use big data methods to analyze sites like Github, StackOverflow and even Twitter to reveal the very best engineers on the web. We get right down to the code level to provide rich assessment of code quality ...
Smarterer - recruiting human resources educational games skill assessment

Smarterer

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Quantify skills in as few as 2 minutes.
 Smarterer helps people take control of their professional destinies, by quantifying skills in as few as 10 questions and 120 seconds. Skills are changing faster than ever; our dynamic assessment engine and crowdsourcing tools capture what's relevant now, to deliver ...
Groove Technologies - mobile SaaS enterprise software recruiting

Groove Technologies

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Human Capital Cloud
 GROOVE is developing enterprise recruiting and talent management solutions for the human capital cloud. PIPELINE enables recruiters to source a pipeline of high potential candidates from the web, prioritize who to pursue, and engage targets in the recruiting ...
CareerApp - SaaS recruiting college recruiting human resources

CareerApp

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Common App for Jobs | Career Fair Tool
 We help students and recruiters connect before, during, and after a Career Fair. CareerApp is an HR tech startup focused on allowing students and new graduates to showcase their past achievements and positive traits, in and out of formal work experience, and ...
CoFounder - social commerce social media platforms social recruiting recruiting

CoFounder

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Getting Startups to Start Up. We want to be the LinkedIn.com for starting a businesses.
 We are a new start up that is focusing on helping aspiring entrepreneurs find a CoFounder or a strategic partner for their new business. We offer visitors the ability to post their profiles with their areas of expertise and a summary of what they would like to ...
HireProbability - recruiting human resources

HireProbability

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Helping you hire better.
 HireProbability helps you hire better.
Job Buddy - recruiting

Job Buddy

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The fastest way to get a job.
 Job Buddy provides the tools to help job seekers get a new job fast. Keep track of the job opportunities you've found all in one place. Manage your cover letters and resumes easily with document templates. Share ideas and get support from other job seekers who ...
FairSetup - recruiting human resources finance technology

FairSetup

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Impact-based Performance Management and Compensation.
 FairSetup has built a novel performance management system that uses performance evaluations to calculate relative individual impact of every employee. This impact can then be connected to compensation, which leads to all participants feeling like partners affecting ...
Workable - SaaS B2B small and medium businesses recruiting

Workable

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Recruiting software for SMEs
 Beautifully simple recruiting software for SMEs
DataJobs.com - big data recruiting big data analytics

DataJobs.com

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Recruiting for big data talent
 DataJobs.com is a jobs marketplace that specializes in helping companies connect with and recruit rarefied talent in big data.
TipTal - productivity software social recruiting recruiting

TipTal

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The ultimate job search organizer.
 TipTal is a revolutionary tool that allows users to organize their entire job search. Users can import any job postings and organize them, discover jobs through custom pre-filled lists, and receive personalized recommendations based on their activity. They can ...
Backstage - marketplaces application platforms recruiting career management

Backstage

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Linkedin for performing artists
 Backstage is a marketplace for performing arts talent.
Rising Green - education green recruiting environmental innovation

Rising Green

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LinkedIn + Meetup.com for green careers.
 Rising Green is creating the next generation green jobs website. We will add a social, viral element to the green career development process while creating a website that is more fun, user-friendly and effective at serving this niche than any of the competition. ...
Crowd Recruiting - social recruiting recruiting human resource automation

Crowd Recruiting

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The international crowd sourced recruiting platform.
 Crowd Recruiting is an international crowd sourced recruiting marketplace that allows recruiters to share job orders and split the fee. With 100's of recruiters from 40+ countries, we are quickly gaining traction in the hr technology space
Authess - recruiting corporate training Higher Education

Authess

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Authentic assessment of skills
 Authess measures expertise by comparing learner behaviors in an open-ended, authentic problem with the actions of a control group of novices through experts. Authentic assessments based on the principles, knowledge, and skills connected to jobs will enable the ...
Zimovo - recruiting local services task management

Zimovo

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Outsource your tasks to lowest bidder
 Zimovo is an online social marketplace that employs gamification techniques by allowing users to post services they need on their personal profiles so that local users and businesses bid to complete the service. Zimovo simplifies the process of completing tasks. ...
Cangrade - recruiting human resources employment big data analytics

Cangrade

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Better hiring decisions
 Cangrade is a Data Analytics company in the space of Human Capital Management. For large and fast-growing organizations who struggle to streamline recruitment, we provide predictive analytics that focus on maximizing outcomes such as job performance and retention. Cangrade's ...
AppJobs.co - mobile internet tv recruiting apps

AppJobs.co

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Multiplatform App Developer's and Designer's Hiring Platform

Beansprock - artificial intelligence natural language processing recruiting advising and career services

Beansprock

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OkCupid for jobs
 Many people take a job because the role allows them to use their skills.  Others take a job because they admire the company and believe in the problem it’s solving.  Users on Beansprock know their next job will have both.  Beansprock has developed artificial intelligence ...
Tree.st - recruiting colleges

Tree.st

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Social Discovery for Organizations
 Tree.st makes everyone within an organization searchable by any number of characteristics that define them.
Zinoplex - mobile sales and marketing recruiting business development

Zinoplex

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People curation platform
 Time is one's most valuable resource. Opportunities are ephemeral. An opportunity available today may be unavailable tomorrow. In today's competitive world, we need to find those leads and resources that provide the greatest opportunity, find them efficiently, ...
DapperJobs - enterprise software recruiting

DapperJobs

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eHarmony meets Monster
 We're taking lessons learned from online dating and applying it to the job search process. Current culture fit solutions and tools are downstream from the interview process - beginning at the interview process and beyond - DapperJobs is the first to take all ...
BoardProspects - consumer internet B2B recruiting professional networking

BoardProspects

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The online boardroom community
 BoardProspects is the online boardroom community, providing a platform where members can connect and share the latest information in boardroom news, education, best practices and recruitment opportunities
onthebar - wine and spirits hospitality restaurants recruiting

onthebar

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digital identity platform for the hospitality industry
 Bartenders use onthebar to convert patrons into regulars, drive repeat business, and generate point-of-sale, influencer-based drink recommendations for the $20B spirits and cocktail industry. onthebar offers spirit brands a direct and measurable on-premise marketing ...
uConnect - education recruiting Education Technology

uConnect

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Career Services Students Love
 uConnect works with college and university career centers to effectively impact student career preparation and post-graduate outcomes. We are changing the way colleges and universities – from private institutions to public universities – engage students in professional ...
Umeqo - recruiting

Umeqo

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Recruiting Made Simple
 Umeqo is an innovative recruiting resource for students and employers to discover one another by leveraging the familiar paradigms of resumes and events. The platform empowers employers to easily filter and search student profiles, create resume books, reach out ...
JobWand - SaaS recruiting

JobWand

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salesforce.com for jobseekers
 JobWand is a SaaS alternative to the typical, constrained spreadsheet for job search management. Jobseekers have a LOT of data to manage, from all of the metadata for each job opportunity they are tracking (company name, job title, etc.) to all of the different, ...
Dunwello - digital media small and medium businesses recruiting

Dunwello

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Trustworthy recommendations of individual professionals.
 No angry rants. No glorified resumes. Just trustworthy reviews from real customers that showcase the skills and strengths of talented professionals.  The Dunwello community contributes reviews based on real experiences. Positive reviews post directly to an individual’s ...
HigherMe - recruiting part-time jobs hr tech

HigherMe

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Retail hiring platform
 HigherMe uses data and video to help retail and service employers find, screen, and hire better employees faster. Applicants go to our site and answer questions - both objective (when are they available to work? how many hours do they want?) and subjective (what ...
Subease - recruiting construction

Subease

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Blue collar LinkedIn
 Subease is a mobile and web platform that connects contractors with skilled labor. It will be like a blue collar linkedIn, with a touch of Uber and Airbnb functionality. It enables both parties to upload their profiles/jobs and qualifications/requirements, creating ...
ReferralBonus - social media social recruiting recruiting social network media

ReferralBonus

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Crowdsourcing candidates from former peers.
 Recruiting agencies are expensive, often $10k-$25k. Job board postings cost hundreds upfront with zero guarantee. Job board postings also result in hundreds of candidates with no quality filter. ReferralBonus automates the candidate matching process for our users ...
Medstro - social media health care information technology recruiting private social networking

Medstro

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The Social Network for Physicians
 Medstro is the social network exclusively for physicians and medical students. We’ve created a private and comfortable space for a community of peers to discuss a wide range of interests from research and academic work to charity, entrepreneurship and innovation. ...
HoursForEquity - B2B startups recruiting all students

HoursForEquity

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Alternative compensation job search
 HoursForEquity is a social network that helps match startups and job seekers for alternative compensation. What kind? Equity, office space, introductions, freebies, perks, and anything else you can think of! The possibilities are endless.
Talent Response - recruiting Management Consulting

Talent Response

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Changing the way work gets done
 Talent Response's goal: to change the way work gets done. Many professionals have personal and family commitments, and have had it with the 70-hour, 70% travel work week. At the same time, consulting firms and other organizations face unpredictable project demand ...

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