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Prior to his appointment as CEO of JobApp Network, Inc., Blake Helppie was an active associate partner at Vineyard Capital Group, which led the acquisition of JobApp. While still an associate operating partner at Vineyard Capital Group, Blake is exclusively focused on the long-term success of JobApp Network as the company's permanent CEO. Blake previously spent about 5 years at Goldman Sachs, where he worked in both investment banking and Goldman's principal investment area. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Blake served as a consultant with Superior Consultant Company, providing strategic planning for its healthcare clients. Since 1994, Blake has founded, built and grown three companies: an early ISP in California (1994), a provider of web application development services (1999), and an owner and operator of offshore support ships in South America (2005). Blake is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University and speaks fluent Portuguese and German.

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digital divide controversy revived

Monday, November 24, 2008

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By Blake Helppie - A few weeks ago Steve Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, blogged about a recent study published by our company, JobApp Network, on how web-only applicant tracking, talent acquisition and hiring management systems may be unwittingly hampering diversity at hourly employers, particularly in retail and restaurants. Rarely have I seen such a torrent of controversy unleashed by what was originally intended to be just another quarterly white paper. Academics were asking questions and bloggers revived a largely dormant “Digital Divide” discussion. I think the last time that the “Digital Divide” generated any real political or economic debate was somewhere around the time that I watched Detroit Rock City in theater (voted the worst movie of 1999 by the other 6 people who actually watched it).