Press Coverage
Posted May 17, 2013
FASTCOLABS-- The data doesn't lie. For all the talk about tech becoming a less male-dominated space, women are still a vast minority in the industry. In fact, recent data from Bright.com suggests that the gender gap is widening--at least momentarily.
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Posted May 2, 2013
BLOOMBERG TV-- Bright.com CEO Steve Goodman explains his company's business to Jo Erlichman on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West."
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Posted April 5, 2013
BLOOMBERG TV-- Bright CEO Steve Goodman discusses where the strongest job growth is with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line."
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Posted April 3, 2013
FOX BUSINESS-- On Tuesday, job-listing website Bright.com estimated 223,000 new jobs were created in March.
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Posted April 1, 2013
FORBES-- "While references will likely matter further into the interview process, noting on your resume that 'references are available upon request' will not make your resume stand out," says Jacob Bollinger, lead data scientist at Bright.com, an employment site with more than 2.5 million job listings.
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Posted March 22, 2013
ABC 7 SAN FRANCISCO-- There are sites to match people for dates, so why not a site to match applicants with jobs? The process is scientific with a mathematical algorithm at its heart.
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Posted March 21, 2013
CNBC-- That said, the legal job market has slowed dramatically. The U.S. will have a 7.3 percent loss in legal employment for 2013, according to Bright.com.
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Posted March 15, 2013
DOESWHAT-- Bright is a job searching tool for both employers and prospective employees. I interviewed Steve Goodman, Bright CEO to find out more.
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Posted March 6, 2013
WALL STREET JOURNAL-- On Monday, employment site Bright.com said it estimated a "sluggish" 131,000 jobs were added last month. Bright analyzes its own aggregated job postings and resumes along with government, financial, real estate, and other data sources to estimate payrolls.
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Posted February 21, 2013
SILICON VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL-- An analysis of 2.5 million California job postings by San Francisco-based employment site Bright.com found that science and engineering majors in several disciplines still reign when it comes to the most valuable college degrees in the golden state.
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Posted February 19, 2013
VENTURE BEAT-- The New York Times published an article in recent months detailing how employers increasingly rely on internal referrals in hiring. In the age of "spray and pray" job seekers, where the cost of submitting an application is a few recycled electrons, this may seem like a rational solution in the war against resume spam...
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Posted December 9, 2012
GIGAOM-- Despite high joblessness in the country, many companies have job openings but lack qualified applicants. Steve Goodman, of Bright, says big data and data science can help fix that problem.
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Posted December 5, 2012 7:15AM
PANDO DAILY-- Bright.com released the Bright Score Calculator, a free-to-use tool to help recruiters match resumes to job descriptions.
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Posted October 4, 2012 4:45AM
THE DAILY BEAST-- Systems management companies are using big data to tackle the problem of congestion on the roads. Now serial entrepreneur Steve Goodman is using algorithms and cheap, powerful processing to develop a system to match employers and employees more efficiently.
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Posted October 3, 2012
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK-- Bright.com CEO Steve Goodman discusses the tech job landscape. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West."
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Posted October 1, 2012 8:49AM
USA TODAY--Just counting positions directly in the energy industry, the shale boom has accounted for as many as 33,000 new U.S. jobs this year, according to Bright Labs, a San Francisco start-up whose website provides job-hunt data and tips.
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Posted September 28, 2012
MASHABLE--Silicon Valley is still the biggest hot spot for tech jobs in the U.S., but a few other areas have almost caught up.
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Posted September 19, 2012 3:30PM
TECHCRUNCH--Back in June, Bright announced a new recruiting tool called Bright Score, a system that automatically scores whether someone is a good fit for the job. But that's just one way Bright can make use of all the jobs data that it has amassed -- the company claims to have processed more than 15 million job descriptions and 2 million resumes.
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Posted September 19, 2012 3:30PM
VENTURE BEAT--Developed by its team of engineers and data scientists, Bright Labs is a set of infographics and tools that shed light on the current employment landscape.
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Posted August 4, 2012
ABOUT.COM--Bright is a job search site that allows users to search for jobs, find connections at companies, and locate job openings that best fit their experience.
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Posted August 3, 2012
INTEL iQ--With the national unemployment rate at 8.6 percent, the future looks bleak for job hunting. Job seekers have more competition and employers are getting buried under the thousands of resumes. This is where Bright, a new job search engine, comes in.
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Posted August 2, 2012 5:00AM
FORTUNE--Almost two years ago, Goodman started Bright and gathered millions of resumes and job descriptions to create a system that develops a Bright Score, which tells recruiters what kind of fit a person would be for a specific job based on algorithms that are constantly learning as they devour more data, he says.
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Posted July 31, 2012 1:00PM
US NEWS--The great thing about Bright.com is that it allows applicants to build their resumes online and then aligns their qualifications with positions that best suit their skills.
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Posted July 31, 2012 1:00PM
CNN MONEY--If the FICO score is the standard in credit scores, Bright hopes its Bright Score, a number that assesses your potential fit for a job, will become the new standard in corporate HR and hiring.
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Posted July 24, 2012 11:00AM
LIFEHACKER--Bright is a job search engine that might make your job hunt much more efficient. Instead of the common method of applying to every job you maybe qualify for, you can use the service to see the open positions you're most likely to score an interview for.
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Posted July 22, 2012 10:51PM
NEW YORK POST--Search for a job on a Web site using a position title or keyword as your parameter, and you'll likely get a multitude of hits for positions -- many of which you aren't interested in or qualified for...
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Posted June 21, 2012 9:45AM
AOL JOBS--The job search has long been an inexact science. You send out a blitz of resumes, network with everyone you know, and keep your fingers crossed. But several new, job-search sites are claiming to be bringing more precision to the process, using Google-like technology and elaborate algorithms.
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Posted June 20, 2012
BLOGGING4JOBS--One of the most frustrating and complicated pieces of the hiring and recruitment process is the pre-candidate selection and pre-screen. As recruiters, we spend time creating and customizing the job posting to the hiring manager's specifications even optimizing it for SEO long before the interview or actual screening begins. The hardest part actually filling the job opening is actually getting started.
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Posted June 19, 2012 8:00AM
VENTURE BEAT--Bright is launching today with a tall promise: It wants to find you a job. Not just any job: the job. The right job for you, the perfect match for your abilities and interests.
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Posted June 19, 2012
PANDO DAILY--Finding a job is a pain in the ass. Hiring is equally painful and time consuming, as well as expensive. Unfortunately, neither of these processes seem to have improved much as a result of technological innovation. In fact, in many ways, the internet has added to the issue by increasing the number of applicants -- many unqualified -- for every job posting.
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Posted June 19, 2012
PRWEB--Bright unveils today the Bright Score, a smarter, faster and easier way to connect job seekers with the right jobs. Bright also announces the public launch of Bright.com today after raising a $6M Series A from angel investors.
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Posted June 19, 2012
DOW JONES--Bright Inc. wants to shine new light on hiring. Backed with a $6 million Series A round from hedge fund manager John Burbank and other individual investors, the San Francisco start-up is emerging from stealth mode...
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Posted June 19, 2012 7:30AM
ERE--Launching today: Bright.com. Its team has spent 18 months in stealth mode, with a group of wonks working on a better way to screen candidates, analyzing "8.6 million job seekers, more than 2.1 million job descriptions, and over 2.8 million resumes."
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Posted June 19, 2012 7:30AM
Posted June 19, 2012
FINS--San Francisco start-up Bright Media Corporation Inc. is unveiling its debut product today that it says will bring big data analytics to the process of matching jobs with people, cutting down on the frustration experienced by job seekers and hiring managers.
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Posted June 19, 2012 7:35AM
REUTERS--You don't need to be a rocket scientist to set up a job-search site on the Internet. But one Silicon Valley startup is betting that matching candidates to the perfect job in today's dismal market might entail a smidgeon of nuclear physics. With U.S. unemployment rates still over 8 percent, jobs search engine Bright has secured $6 million in initial venture capital to kick off a service that analyzes job seekers and matches them with posted jobs across the Internet, on websites from CareerBuilder.com to Dice.com.
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Posted June 19, 2012 7:30AM
CNET--Job searchers can now approach their quest as many do for love -- relying on data and science. Or, at least, 'science' (as most anyone who's ever tried online dating can attest). Bright, a job search engine launching today, uses data to show employees and employers how compatible they are using a scoring system that CEO Steve Goodman said will revolutionize the hiring the process.
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Posted June 19, 2012 7:30AM
MASHABLE--A new job board called Bright aims to kill resume overload with a little bit of data science. Instead of encouraging candidates to apply for as many jobs as possible, Bright promises to cut down on unnecessary resume exchanges by showing both parties what is the best fit for them.
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Posted June 19, 2012 7:30AM
TECHCRUNCH--Startup Bright has already built a popular job board. CEO Steve Goodman says that over the past 18 months, Bright.com has attracted 8.6 million job seekers who have posted 2.8 million resumes. However, that was just stage one of the company's plans -- in Goodman's words, it was "the largest scientific resume trial in the history of the industry."
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