I happened to be at Instagram’s old offices (164 S. Park) yesterday when the Facebook acquisition went down. I snapped this crappy pic because I thought it was cool that Instagram, Twitter and GetSatisfaction (social CRM on the rise ) … Continue reading →

[This is a guest-post from Brian Kerr] Everyone has seen job postings looking for great multitaskers. If you are below the age of 35, you will probably happily admit that you multitask better than most, and much better than those of … Continue reading →

[Guest Blogger Mike Harding is the co-founder of re.vu, a radically better visual resume. You can follow Mike on Twitter @mah1.] Conventional wisdom says that a picture is worth 1,000 words. But is that really true? And what bearing does that … Continue reading →

How cool is this traffic cop? I thought it was fake at first, but now I think it’s real: click Traffic Cop Dancing Like Michael Jackson] if you can’t see the embedded video in this post Wouldn’t it be awesome … Continue reading →

Clever business cards from naming guru Anthony Shore (he named Blackwire, Scamper, Lytro, Lyric, meeVee & many more products) . He shows 3 different sets of everyday products and what they look like without any name on them: Simple yet … Continue reading →

Fascinating news broke this weekend when security firm Imperva out of Redwood City outlined a report called “The Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack” (outlining details of how the “Anonymous” hactivist group operated in one unnamed attack last year in The … Continue reading →

We at Ongig found it very interesting that in the same week Fast Company listed Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple as the four most innovative companies, two of those listed made front page headlines relating to privacy concerns.  There is … Continue reading →

Somewhere between 12% and 42% of résumés contain a lie, according to such sources as Morgan & Banks, ResumeDoctor and ADP. ADP once did 2.6 Million background checks and found that 44% lied about work histories, 41% lied about education … Continue reading →

By the time you read this, game developer Double Fine Productions in San Francisco will likely have passed the 50,000 investor mark on Kickstarter for funding its next point and click adventure game. Stats are amazing: 27,000+ people put in … Continue reading →

[This is a guest-post from Brian Kerr] It was the start of October and I was stuck commuting to work in traffic for 1 hour both ways. Oh yes, and I was working 8am to 6pm…this meant I woke up … Continue reading →

Here are 12 super-creative resumes we found at deviantART and a couple other places. 1) Writer’s Resume 2) Circular Timeline Resume 3) T-Shirt Resume (this is designer Amita Gandhi who also did the tag-cloud resume infographic resume below). 4) Gargoyle Photographer Resume … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, I found myself leaving a CTO role at a small startup and back on the job market during a unique up-cycle of tech hiring. My past job hunts came during economic down-cycles or in locations outside of … Continue reading →

The new “At Twitter, The Future Is You!” recruiting video (embed below) from Twitter has quickly ranked among the top 5 most popular recruitment videos we’ve seen on YouTube. Here are some YouTube stats on the Twitter video: Here’s the … Continue reading →

A smart CTO type told me he’s thinking about his next move the other day. I encouraged him to think about these 5 question-topics as he evaluates his next job (it’s inspired by “The 5 C’s” we like to talk … Continue reading →

If you are starting a business in San Francisco, you tend to frequent the many coffee shops that the city has to offer. While visiting the variety of shops, your motivation may be just as diverse as the selection of … Continue reading →

I was privileged to participate in a Citizen Schools event in which 8th graders from Oakland, California got to practice their networking skills with a handful of “adults” with jobs like me. The whole idea was to get these kids … Continue reading →

Including your photo in a résumé is frowned upon in the U.S. (HR folks are scared of the risk of discrimination suits)– but they are commonplace in other countries such as South America, Asia, Africa and Western Europe. Thank you … Continue reading →

Social Recruiting is a trendy phrase in the world of talent acquisition. Top recruiters across the industry are hard at work trying to define Social Recruiting. Is it social because of networking? Is it social because of technology? Is it … Continue reading →

We recently wrote about a bad-ass resume that an Ongigger sent us. It was designed by Jason Orr and I just found his resume on his site — it’s pretty darn cool too:

Thanks to Jonathan Nelson of Hackers and Founders for promoting the protest. I ride my bike down Market Street every day, so his email got my attention and got me there. For those who couldn’t make it, I thought I’d … Continue reading →

Ongig helps create visually appealing job postings, but on the other side of the career equation is a world of visually-appealing resumes. We found one (thanks to Anonymous Ongigger for sending it in!) of a British entrepreneur named Dave Ingram … Continue reading →

Regan Bach is an executive coach, leadership consultant, and President of Irontree Consulting.  He has worked with some incredible companies including Facebook, Zynga, eBay, Paypal  and a number of other leading technology businesses. Regan is also a friend and I thought … Continue reading →

According to Dictionary.com, the definition of recruiting is “to engage in finding and attracting employees, new members, students, athletes, etc.”. The key word in this definition is “attracting”. Think of things in life that attract: bait attracts a fish, a zapper attracts mosquitos, …you get the picture. Why should job … Continue reading →

Ongig asked hundreds of cool tech companies hiring in the San Francisco Bay Area what positions they would like to do a social job posting video for. Below is the list: Top 10 Positions That Need To Be Filled By … Continue reading →

Thank you to Anonymous for sharing some pictures of Facebook’s new office in Menlo Park. She had a grand time at the new campus with the slight exception of the 20 minutes it took to find parking! I “like” the Facebook … Continue reading →

Most job titles are normal, but some situations can get weird. Here are 5 job title pitfalls to try to avoid in your career: 1) People With Multiple Titles (For Just One Employer) People using more than one title at … Continue reading →

Convenience is an important factor when top candidates are choosing their place of work. San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Terminal of tomorrow promises to add more to the term “convenience” that just location.Amenities for the new terminal are many, but the … Continue reading →

Few people know that Steve Jobs didn’t serve as CEO of Apple until 1997. Did you know that Bill Gates started Microsoft in New Mexico!? I’m pretty sure that the color scheme of Google’s logo has been unchanged since their … Continue reading →

Ongig’s focus is video job postings (we believe all online job opportunities will be visual one day) and we are always on the look-out for any videos to do with hiring. We decided to comb through YouTube and show you … Continue reading →

If you have ever lived in San Francisco, you are certainly familiar with how the term “micro-climate” relates to the city’s neighborhoods. You can insert “micro-climate” when talking about which San Francisco neighborhood is the best for working in a … Continue reading →

Hawking.org will be posting an official job advertisement for a Technical Assistant to Professor Hawking in mid-January. Here is an unofficial summary of the job from their Web page. Here’s a video of Hawking from TED: Technical Assistant To Stephen … Continue reading →

Ongig’s vision is that all job opportunities should be visual and transparent — that’s why all of our job opps have video and pictures. But there are also many employer Web sites with cool career pages — we decided to give … Continue reading →

I’ve had advice from people in the past to “work with companies led by people you strongly believe in”. As I reflect on 2011, I am fortunate to recall several amazing people I was able to meet. Thus, I wanted … Continue reading →

[This is a guest blog by Greg Jordan] It was the fall of 2005 and I was vulnerable. Fall seems to be when everything important happens in my life. Caught in a fragile moment, I was being recruited away from … Continue reading →

[This is a guest blog by recruiter Nina Merklina Morrison] Over the past dozen years I have heard proclamations that my job as an external recruiter is on the verge of extinction. Meanwhile, despite the oversights and calls of vocational … Continue reading →

Thank you to one of Ongig’s favorite techie couples, Currin Berdine and Jose Miguel Hernandez, for giving us this cool gift idea for dog-lovers: the Ultra Dog Pack from REI. Here’s their puppy Lola (who also has her own Facebook page) donning … Continue reading →

As I have weaved all over San Francisco on my bicycle this year, I have had the chance to meet some awesome people and see their inspiring workplaces. Since this is the time of the year we think back on … Continue reading →

I was watching An Evening With Kevin Smith (The full 2 hours of it free) the other night and a guy named “Geek” asked Kevin a question — and Kevin had a throw-away comment about the word “Geek” originating from … Continue reading →

We tried using Google+’s Hangouts feature for our Ongig daily huddle call this morning and it was super-easy and fun. You just go to plus.google (all you need for Google+ is a Google Account (free)) and click “Start a hangout” … Continue reading →

I was curious who the most profitable tech companies were based on net income per employee; so I asked the kind folks at MANDASOFT (a cool mergers and acquisitions data provider) for the data. Top 25 Tech Companies By Profit-Per-Employee … Continue reading →

Prologue, Apr 2011 It started on a rainy evening. I was working for a company that made widgets. (Really, they make customized social widgets for clients). I had spent the entire day poring over a jumble of hideous Java code … Continue reading →

Over the last few weeks I have been asked multiple times, why can’t I just put my job videos on YouTube? I suppose no one is stopping you from posting to YouTube. However, simply posting a job video on YouTube … Continue reading →

A friend just sent me this nice quality version of me nervously asking Steve Jobs a question at All Things Digital (D5) a few years back. I asked him for his advice for entrepreneurs like me…on how to try to … Continue reading →

I didn’t know what to expect when I ponied up the $45 dollar per ticket admission for my wife and I to attend the Silicon Valley Rocks charity concert benefiting Music in Schools Today(MUST).  MUST, which provides music education programs for underserved … Continue reading →

I am a young, 30-something strategy executive at a parent company for multiple youth- orientated consumer apparel brands, some of which you have surely heard of. We are a traditional B2B manufacturer/distributor with a sophisticated and well -resourced digital/social marketing deployment … Continue reading →

My iPhone 3GS was two and a half years old. It had given me some problems of late, but on Sunday things took a turn for the worse. The power went out. No amount of charging could revive it. On Monday, … Continue reading →

Gowalla’s Co-founder Josh Williams confirmed that Gowalla sold itself to Facebook today — the latest “hacquisition.” “Hacquisition,” if you haven’t already figured it out, combines the words “hacker” with “acquisition” to create a phrase that describes what you call a … Continue reading →

I believe that video will be standard in job postings within the next 5 years. Call me crazy, but technology is easy to use and video gives you such a tremendous advantage. Active and passive job seekers network through referrals … Continue reading →

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one” — Oscar Wilde. At no other point in the past has this quotation reverberated more truly for myself. Unfortunately for me, Wilde’s musing is a lot less … Continue reading →

One of the “5 C’s” we mentioned is getting from Point A to Point B in your  career development. To do so, you need to be purposeful about our job. Here’s an easy exercise for figuring out the purpose statement of … Continue reading →

Throughout the 20th Century and now into the 21st, job search pundits have eulogized the résumé as it gives way to technology and time. Through each era, age, fad and phase, the resilient document changes and continues to lead the way for job seekers. … Continue reading →

The kind folks at Bersin Associates in Oakland, CA gave us permission to share some awesome data from their $999 Talent Acquisition Factbook 2011 authored by Karen O’Leonard. A Recruiter Makes 21% Of Your First Year’s Salary (E.g. $21K Here In … Continue reading →

Here are some more creative business cards/calling cards we discovered after posting A Creative Business Card Showing Twitter, Web & Email All On One Line. Thanks to Neatorama for posting this calling card from comedian Steve Martin: Here’s a simple … Continue reading →

Keeping up to date with your email inbox can be one of the most challenging aspects in your work. Think of how much time you spend to keep your inbox clean, or the messages that get shuffled or missed. A … Continue reading →

Compensation is one of the “5 C’s” key to your career — no surprise there, right? But it might surprise you to find out what increased my compensation. Towards that end, I plotted my compensation over my career to figure out … Continue reading →

Interested in working for a startup? There’s some good chatter over on Quora on a question called “How To Evaluate Whether To Work For A Startup?” My favorite 5 tips from Quora are: 1) Your manager is vital (source: Keith Rabois, … Continue reading →

We were running a little late serving our turkey in the Webster household this Thanksgiving Day. It was 5:03pm by the time the turkey was carved and headed for the table. Just as we were sitting down, the phone rang. … Continue reading →

I’ve been lucky to have some awesome jobs in my life, including CEO (4 times), VP of Sales, Director of Business Development, Senior Editor and Assistant (Gopher) a couple of times. At each business I’ve been at I’ve learned that … Continue reading →

My wife watches a show called “The X-Factor” that some of you may have heard of. One of the remaining contestants is a young teen going by the name of Astro. Although he seemed to be a talented contestant, my … Continue reading →

We were stunned when we looked at Ongig’s analytics over the weekend — 8,000+ people had visited from Hacker News and yet only 1.1% of them used Internet Explorer (IE) (see graph and chart below). IE usually loses out to … Continue reading →

Mervyn Fealy posted a blog article on Ongig yesterday about his hunt for a job in Silicon Valley, and got a response he did not anticipate. Ongig placed a link to his article on Hacker News, thinking his story might be … Continue reading →

About me Before I tell you about my experience of job hunting in the IT Mecca that is California, I guess I should introduce myself. So here goes! My name is Mervyn. I am a 24 year old, Irish, Computer … Continue reading →

I found it amusing when a senior .Net/C# developer colleague (let’s call him “Kumar”) in San Francisco showed me his cell phone the other day: Kumar named 19 of his contacts “Spam No. __” because they are annoying recruiters. He … Continue reading →

I saw my first sign of the holidays while biking down Market Street in San Francisco on October 31st. City workers were putting up the lights and snow flakes on that will don the main drag for the holiday season. … Continue reading →

Fascinating CNN report on Jack Dorsey’s weekly schedule as CEO of both Twitter and Square. He told CNN he works 8 hours per weekday at Twitter and then walks 2 blocks to Square where he works another 8 hours…and each day has … Continue reading →

Ongig stumbled across an archived Marc Andreessen blog posting on hiring and it reminded me of Warren Buffett’s criteria for making a good hire (which I apply to all people I do business with). I though I’d contrast their two … Continue reading →

As unemployment levels across the United States remain high, the focus of many is on a “quick fix” to create jobs. Government officials grapple with interest rates, tax hikes, and trade tariffs to create an environment for job growth. What … Continue reading →

This is one of the most creative business cards I’ve seen in awhile —  it shows a Twitter, Web and email address all wrapped in one. It belongs to designer Natalie Roberts Doud (thanks to Software Architect Matt Levy for … Continue reading →

He who asks the most questions, wins!  When the superstar (aka “A-Player”) professionals we know interview for a job, they don’t just sit back and answer the hiring manager’s questions. They turn the tables and ask the hiring manager a bunch … Continue reading →

Does a resume tell the whole story of you and your capabilities as a candidate? If the answer is no, then the next question becomes: what does tell your full story as a candidate? I asked three Bay Area employers … Continue reading →

I went to a Google Technology User Group meeting on Tuesday night at pariSOMA, and a town hall meeting broke out. To my surprise, there were 3 Mayoral and 4 DA candidates for San Francisco present. While a bit surprised, I … Continue reading →

I was reaching out to some San Francisco “A-Players” last week for the “The 5 C’s Of Why An A-Player Takes A New Job” article and one rising star, Mackenzie Mee-Lee, responded right after deadline about why she joined a new … Continue reading →

I found a cool tool called Vizualize.me that lets you turn your LinkedIn profile into an infographic. All you do is visit Vizualize.me and sign in through LinkedIn and it then shows you your LinkedIn data through various infograpics. Above is … Continue reading →

I first heard the term “A-Player” when I studied under Topgrading author Brad Smart. I took detailed notes during my workshop – after all, the legendary GE CEO Jack Welch had been one of Brad’s pupils. Note: Brad Smart defined … Continue reading →

We here at Ongig believe that the hiring world is going to be radically reshaped over the next 10 to 20 years. Not to be dramatic, but we think that this will affect each of you reading this. Towards that … Continue reading →