Articles about Hiring – Page 2 of 10

US immigration policy has employers eyeing Canada for job growth

As the United States cracks down on employment-based immigration programs, Canada has been aggressively marketing itself as a friendly alternative… Read More

Facebook tops 3,000 Seattle-area employees as major hiring spree continues

Facebook’s dizzying growth all over the Seattle area continues unabated, and now the social media giant’s regional presence is up… Read More

Facebook hiring at record pace, adds more than 10k people to headcount in one year

Facebook is making regular headlines for expanding its footprint with big new office leases in the Seattle region, and new… Read More

Top Amazon recruiting executive: Don’t be afraid to say ‘I don’t know’ in a job interview

Ardine Williams knows a lot about job interviews. She was an HR leader for years at Intel before briefly retiring… Read More

After leading 4,000 job interviews, here’s what Smartsheet’s co-founder loves to ask candidates

As a veteran tech entrepreneur and co-founder of companies like Onyx Software and Smartsheet, Brent Frei has conducted more than… Read More

Amazon headcount drops by 2,900 employees in Q1 — first decline in nine years

Amazon’s overall headcount declined by 2,900 people to 563,100 full- and part-time employees in the first quarter, according to new… Read More

Employment lawyers puzzled over IBM’s non-compete suit against Microsoft’s new diversity chief

IBM’s decision to sue a longtime human resources executive for taking a new job at Microsoft is raising questions among… Read More

Job hunting? Tech skills increasingly tied to higher wages and economic opportunity

Digital prowess has become one of the most powerful bargaining chips in the American job market over a relatively short… Read More

Political skills in high-demand at tech companies in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco

Political skills are becoming a hot commodity on the tech talent market. That’s according to LinkedIn’s monthly workforce report for… Read More

Amazon tops 540K employees after swallowing Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

Amazon added a whopping 159,500 employees in the last quarter, pushing its total employment to 541,900 people worldwide, according to… Read More

Amazon hiring 120k holiday workers in U.S. in 2017 — same as last year, for first time in many years

Amazon says it plans to hire more than 120,000 seasonal workers at its U.S. fulfillment centers, sortation centers and customer service… Read More

Amazon sues former AWS VP over non-compete deal; Smartsheet calls claim against its new product chief an ‘enormous overreach’

Amazon.com is alleging that one of its former high-ranking executives violated a non-compete agreement when he accepted a job at… Read More

Trump plans review to crack down on ‘abuse’ in work visa program relied on by tech companies

President Donald Trump plans to sign a series of executive orders today aimed at cracking down on abuse of the work… Read More

Amazon creating 5,000 part-time, work-from-home jobs in its Virtual Customer Service program

Amazon may be hiring thousands of people to fill jobs on its Seattle campus or at fulfillment centers around the… Read More

It’s true: Seattle tech engineers are more loyal than those in San Francisco, Indeed data confirms

Software engineers in Seattle stay at companies an average of six months longer than do their counterparts in San Francisco,… Read More

Facebook takes on LinkedIn with new job postings feature

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn might be facing its greatest threat yet with a new feature Facebook rolled out this week. Businesses in… Read More

HR software maker Unitive acquires Seattle startup TalentSonar to help companies remove bias from hiring

Unitive, a San Francisco company that makes hiring and HR software, is acquiring TalentSonar, according to CEO Alvin Loh. The… Read More

Taking a stance on gender inequity can help companies retain employees, study finds

In the tech industry, hiring and retaining top talent is essential to thrive. Companies are offering more and more extravagant perks to… Read More

Textio makes job post data public so companies can find out how they stack up to competition

When Textio arrived on the scene a couple years ago, it addressed two big pain points for the tech industry. “How… Read More

Rumors swirl over Lululemon ditching Vancouver — here’s 3 reasons why the yogawear maker should consider Seattle

You may need to put down your pumpkin spice latte for this. Lululemon, the leader in expensive stuff to sweat… Read More

Amazon to hire 120k seasonal workers in U.S. — a new peak that could signal a big holiday ahead

Amazon says it is creating more than 120,000 seasonal positions across its U.S. fulfillment, sortation and customer service centers for… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Talentful’s software helps recruiters narrow the field

Jia Chen has worked in the software industry for over a decade and during that time he observed a recurring… Read More

Startup Spotlight: High school sweethearts behind Cobelay help match small businesses with buyers

Jenny and Steve Feinberg met in high school, attended UCLA together, and got married in 2008. Last year, they embarked… Read More

A year later, how Microsoft’s jobs program for people with autism is working

It has been more than a year since Microsoft announced a pilot jobs program to specifically accommodate people on the autism… Read More

Highest-paying jobs in tech: Seattle tops list for software engineers, analysts

Seattle is the best place for software engineers, data analysts, and quality analysts to earn a living. That’s according to… Read More

GeekWork Picks: R&D firm Tyemill seeks developers to make ‘meaningful advancements’

Tyemill, a research and development company that builds products for economic analysis, healthcare, and biotech, is looking for developers to… Read More

Startup Spotlight: MosaicTrack uses AI to help recruiters find candidates based on culture fit

Finding the right candidate for a job is time-consuming and labor-intensive work. MosaicTrack hopes to expedite that process for recruiters and… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Limitless seeks lead engineer for VR character creation platform

Limitless is seeking a Full-Stack Lead VR Engineer to join the Bellevue-based company and offering unlimited vacation. With a team… Read More

GeekWork Picks: ThePlatform seeks engineers for leading cloud-based video platform

thePlatform, a subsidiary of Comcast, is a provider of online video publishing tools and video management solutions. Utilized by streaming… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Paul Allen’s AI2 seeks Research Scientist amid ‘huge hiring spree’

Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, recently told GeekWire the company is on “a huge hiring… Read More