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techcrunch.com - 8/26/2009

Brazen Careerist: A Professional Network That Realizes You’re More Than Just A Resume

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The job market is absolutely brutal right now in many areas of the country — a fact that’s doubly true for recent graduates whose resumes are still a little light on actual job experience. This isn’t helped by the fact that many career sites like LinkedIn place a heavy emphasis on ...

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paidcontent.org - 8/20/2009

More Employers Scanning Facebook For New Hires Than LinkedIn

— paidcontent.org — Facebook may be the stickiest social network here in the U.S.—but LinkedIn is thought to be the... default network for a “professional” profile and job history. So why are more employers using Facebook to do background checks on ... (more) More Employers Scanning Facebook For New Hires Than LinkedIn

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businessinsider.com - 8/19/2009

Crazy CareerBuilder Launches LinkedIn Clone

— businessinsider.com — CareerBuilder, the online help-wanted site, has LinkedIn envy. The company launched a new social networking site aimed... at job-seekers today: BriteFuse.com lets job seekers create their own profiles, add portfolios, Twitter feeds and Facebook ... (more) Crazy CareerBuilder Launches LinkedIn Clone

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 8/22/2009

More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants

— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Applying for a new job? You might want to consider cleaning up your online profiles first. In... a new study, almost half of hiring managers questioned said they look at applicants' activities online. (more) More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants

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VentureBeat — ... Brazen Careerist. Think of it as LinkedIn for people who find LinkedIn stupefyingly dull — Jason Kincaid from TechCrunch hits the gist of the new job-hopper site: “CEO Penelope Trunk says that neither LinkedIn nor Facebook are doing a particularly good job catering to Generation Y, at least in a professional network sense, and that while there are some other sites that have tried to tackle the problem, they’ve done so by trying to cater to employers first and using them to attract a community. In contrast, Trunk says that Brazen Careerist is ...