Dan Finnigan

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Dan Finnigan - who has written 1 posts on Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion.

Dan is the CEO and President of Jobvite, creator of next-generation e-recruitment solutions. Dan has spent his career launching and growing Internet businesses with a focus on the recruitment market. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo! and General Manager of Yahoo! HotJobs, doubling revenue between 2002 and 2007. At Yahoo, Dan established Yahoo and HotJobs’ partnership with a consortium of over 700 newspapers, today representing 41 percent of total Sunday circulation in the U.S. Prior to Yahoo!, he led the creation of Knight Ridder Digital, the Internet company of the world’s second largest newspaper publisher, serving as President and CEO. For Knight Ridder, Dan led its joint acquisition of CareerBuilder with Tribune, serving on CareerBuilder’s Board for three years. Prior, to joining Knight Ridder, Dan helped launch, and eventually led as CEO, Smartpages.com (now Yellowpages.com) for SBC/ATT. Dan holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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how to thrive in a recession

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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By Dan Finnigan - Technology is beginning to make it easier for companies to track the quality of hires, and thus, demand better hires. Thus, we will have to continuously improve at hiring the best talent we can. But that is easier said (in blog posts like this) than it is to do. The good news: web technology and social recruiting will enable companies to hire high quality people at less cost. Here are some ideas that come up in conversation when I talk with leaders among our customers and in the industry.