How Gild aims to turn tech hiring on its head

• Today in Tech: Tim Cook's email to Apple employees

  Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.

  "Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that -- it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 26, 2011 3:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Ars Technica, Chairman, DNA, employment, Fortune, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

• Social networking for bricklayers

  Proven.com aims to build the link for employers and skilled workers to connect on jobs.

  By Alex Konrad, contributor

  FORTUNE -- Proven.com wants to prove there's a job site for skilled tradespeople somewhere between the white collar networking of LinkedIn and the anarchy of Craigslist. A site focusing on the workers' end has been up since last year. The employers' end has been active since May under that site's old name, WorkersNow.com. MORE

  Jul 21, 2011 5:03 PM ET
  Posted in: construction, contractors, employment, jobs, Proven.com, skilled tradesmen, social networking, startups

• How employees who bet can guide a company's future

  Internal prediction markets enable colleagues to wager on the fate of crucial projects and the success of products in the pipeline.

  By Chris Taylor, MIT Technology Review

  The need to predict the future, as exciting as it sounds, crops up in corporate life in terribly mundane ways. Case in point: large videogame companies need to know where to put their marketing dollars many months before they complete their games. Inevitably, some games MORE

  Scott Olster, editor - Dec 16, 2010 3:00 AM ET
  Posted in: employment, Harvard Business School, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HP Labs, InTrade, Leslie Fine, Mat Fogarty, Prediction market, Technology Review

• How open government can help states save money

  In California, open government collaboration saved $56 million on the state's website redesign project. The lessons learned there could ripple savings across every department -- and every state.

  By John F. Moore, contributor

  One thing about open government is that there's always more to learn. Carolyn Lawson, Director of eService, Technology Services Governance Division, in California, helped me learn a great deal about how open government efforts were creating jobs in the MORE

  Dec 10, 2010 5:23 PM ET
  Posted in: Business, Business and Economy, California, Cost, Coulomb Technologies, E-Government, employment, Jerry Brown, management, open Government, Sacramento California, Saving, Shane Wilson, United States, World Wide Web

• Creating jobs "for the people" through Open Government

  Apps for Californians was a contest to build the best tools to leverage government data for the public good. Besides creating new ways for citizens to understand their world, it also created new job opportunities and blueprint for the nation.

  By John F. Moore, contributor

  Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was not talking about Open Government data or job creation when he spoke of, "government of the people, by MORE

  Nov 11, 2010 12:31 PM ET
  Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Application programming interface, Business, California, employment, Gettysburg Address, higher education, ProgrammableWeb, United States

• Game on, job seekers!

  The professional social network GILD wants users to find jobs and have fun and win prizes while they're at it. Can gamification work for something as big as finding a job?

  For the country's 9.6% unemployed, jobs remain elusive. The traditional tools available -- headhunters, temp agencies, referrals, even LinkedIn -- can sometimes be more tiresome than helpful. Hopeful job seekers can walk away even more frustrated at the end of MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 11, 2010 3:00 AM ET
  Posted in: employment, iPad, iPod, Javascript, LinkedIn, PayPal, social network, Software engineering

• Hiring executives: If you've never done the job, how do you hire somebody good?

  How many CEOs have been head of HR, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance or Legal? Probably none. Here's how they can overcome that and still hire good people in those roles.

  By Ben Horowitz, contributor

  The biggest difference between being a great functional manager and being a great general manager – and particularly a great CEO – is that as a general manager, you must hire and manage people who are MORE

  Oct 13, 2010 3:34 PM ET
  Posted in: Ben Horowitz, Board of Directors, Business, Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, employment, human resources, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Michael Phelps, Recruitment and Staffing, Sales, Salesmanship, Tony Robbins

• The right way to lay people off

  By Ben Horowitz, contributor

  Cloud computing company Opsware was nobody's darling. Then founders Andreessen and Horowitz put the company through three rounds of layoffs. The unlikely result was a big buyout -- here's how it happened.

  "I'm tryin' to right my wrongs / But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song" -Kanye West

  Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), I had a conversation with the legendary venture MORE

  Sep 20, 2010 1:19 PM ET
  Posted in: Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz, Business, cloud computing, employment, Hewlett-Packard, human resources, Intuit, Layoff, Opsware, Sequoia Capital, venture capital, Wall Street Journal

• Techmate: LinkedIn wants you

  In this episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael quiz LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner about his company's competitors, when the online network may go public, and its mission of reaching half-a-billion members.

  Mason Cohn, Producer - Mar 25, 2010 7:16 PM ET
  Posted in: CEO, employment, Jeff Weiner, job search, job site, Linked In, Linked In CEO, LinkedIn, LinkedIn CEO, monster, professional network, social network