Monster, the famous job management and recruitment company, has begun to put together a new leadership team. SVP and General Manager Penny Queller will lead the group, already including over 70 members. The recent announcement adds 6 industry veterans to this lineup. At the helm, Queller has nearly 2 decades of experience in staffing and recruiting – her earlier positions include Alexander Mann Solutions, The Bartech Group, Adecco and Staffing Industry Analysts. Following Monster’s established footprint, the group will focus on better connecting employers and job seekers. “At Monster, we understand that existing recruiting methods and technologies are not producing

Midwest Real Estate Data has partnered with Remine in a multi-year agreement. Remine is a data and analytics service that helps agents find new markets. According to the company’s website, Remine analyzes property records, consumer data and other market information to “accurately predict when a property is most likely to sell, and when a buyer is most likely to buy.” The platform is delivered exclusively through the MLS, and more than 40,000 customers in the Chicagoland area will have access through this agreement. “MRED was named a finalist for the 2017 Inman Innovator Award. We pride ourselves in providing our

 After other large companies such as Enterprise made the move, Hertz and Avis have also ceased giving members of the National Rifle Association discounts. Hertz’s program offered card carrying NRA members up to 25% off daily base rates and “additional program benefits,” according to the rental car company’s website; similarly, Avis offered up to 25% off. The announcements are the latest examples of companies ending their partnerships, sponsorships, and discount programs with the gun lobbying group following the deadly Feb. 14 shooting at a Florida high school which left 17 dead. Read more here Join us in Miami from the 20th

The job review website Glassdoor could go public in 2018, Bloomberg reports. Glassdoor is interviewing banks to advise on an initial public offering, which could come in the second half of 2018, sources told Bloomberg. Glassdoor has raised $204.5 million in venture capital, according to Crunchbase. Its most recent funding round was in 2016, when the company raised $40 million at a reported valuation of over $1 billion, in a deal led by T. Rowe Price. "As a matter of policy, we do not comment on unsubstantiated reports," a spokeswoman for Glassdoor told Business Insider. Glassdoor, which was founded in

Ricardo Weder has quickly accumulated a large amount of power in the company, still emerging, Cabify, which entered just three years ago. It will be from now on its president, after a wide renewal of the management team. Married and awaiting the birth of his first daughter, he is an "avid reader" who also enjoys his free time "beside the family, playing tennis and football", he says. In addition, he has been part of investment councils, editorial boards and has dedicated himself to teaching. He is a mentor to the non-profit organization dedicated to entrepreneurship Endeavor: he has always been

RentalGuardian.com has announced their new Protection Brands Referral Partner Program, which allows individuals to offer their own insurance. The Protection Brands products are underwritten by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and offered through InsureStays, RentalGuardian.com'shouse licensed agency.  The initial offerings include a standard and a cancel-for-any-reason (CFAR) travel insurance policy and an accidental damage policy with either $1,500 or $3,000 in coverage which reimburses for repairs or replacement as a result of accidental damage to a rental property during a guest's stay. "The Protection Brands channel brings both technology and world class underwriters that are typically reserved for our larger property managers through the RentalGuardian.com solution, and makes

The city government of Portland, Oregon has reached an agreement with vacation company HomeAway over unpaid lodging taxes. The city has traded lawsuits with the company since 2015. It argued the company, which allows homeowners to rent out their homes as vacation rentals online, had failed to either collect lodging taxes usually paid by hotels or give the city enough information about its customers to track them down. Portland legalized short-term rentals in private homes in 2014, requiring homeowners to undergo an inspection and secure a permit. A permanent resident must also live in the home at least nine months of

A new PropTech is now allowing their agents to market and advertise new listings at an earlier stage than before. BestAgent says it can help agents to advertise properties before they 'have even left an appraisal'. The tool allows agents to publish new instructions to portals whilst on an appraisal, providing what it describes as a 'speed-to-market advantage'. It also provides the opportunity to publish on a website and share across social media at the same time. For a single-branch agent, BestAgent says advertising a newly-instructed property could take 'seconds' using a few simple steps from a mobile device. BestAgent

Smart ERP Solutions, an onboard products company, has announced that it has acquired a new asset to further their position in the HR space. Smart ERP is acquiring Provade Inc. – a firm that helps companies implement products in Oracle ecosystem, with special focus on enterprise-grade Services Procurement and Vendor Management Systems (VMS) that simplify expenses on contingent workforce handling. These capabilities could be integrated into Smart ERP’s Smart Onboarding – a cloud platform that automates the entire employee onboarding and offboarding lifecycle, including gig workers and third-party vendors. And with added security and compliance layers, employers can achieve sustained performance. Read

Perhaps the greatest attraction of the Jalisco Talent Land will be the presence of the robot Sophia, an android that answers questions with artificial intelligence and that seems almost human. This event, which will take place in Guadalajara and which will bring together 365 thousand young talents, will host the first Sophia conference in Latin America. In the Jalisco Talent Land, young people can enjoy and learn with activities such as drone races and competitions such as the hackaton, a meeting of programmers whose goal is the cooperative development of software. Pablo Antón, creator of Talent Land, highlighted the participation