Creating the optimum LinkedIn profile that has the best chances of attracting the interest and attention of potential employers and clients starts with setting up your profile, building your job and education history, and importing a flattering profile picture, but there is much more that can be done.
After you’ve spent a good amount of time filling out your LinkedIn profile and are rewarded with the blue 100% complete status bar, take a deep breath and start to explore the ways in which …

BranchOut, the career social networking website that taps into a user’s social graph on Facebook to provide networking opportunities and boost chances for jobs and sale leads, today announced it has raised $18 million in funding and also launched a new product called JobsTab.

BranchOut launched in July 2010 and already boasts 300,000  active users every month and total funding of more than $24 million, with this Series B funding which was led by Redpoint ventures, an investment firm that …

Dave Morin, CEO of Path, announced on a blog post Friday afternoon that users of the social networking service for smartphones can now synchronize their Facebook accounts with their Path accounts.  This makes it possible for Path users, who are allowed a maximum of 50 connections, to see which of their Facebook friends also use Path.

Morin, who left his job at Facebook as a Senior Platform Manager to launch Path, wrote “Path and Facebook are now in an open relationship”.
Path is a …