You know those Palo Alto woods where Mark Zuckerberg takes prospective Facebook hires for sweet talking? Our colleagues at Gizmodo took pictures of the view and surrounding woodlands. They're almost as breathtaking as Zuckerberg's enormous, throbbing valuation.

Observer owner Jared Kushner tried twice to recruit New York Times wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin to take over the newspaper, according to New York.

People appreciate of corporate flexibility in a recession. Fire people, hire them back, God bless you. But keep firing and hiring in an endless cycle, and people are liable to think you're as sadistic as Yahoo.

How do engineers decide which jobs to take in Silicon Valley? It's a complex algorithm involving money, friends, hype, and free food. Nowhere in the equation: slick videos. That's why Facebook's recruiting is failing.

Happy (in a somber way) Veteran's Day. If you're a young American aged 17-24, you might consider honoring the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform by joining the United States Army yourself! Sounds good, no? We all know the Army has been having some recruitment problems lately, what with the hopeless wars we're…

The U.S. Army does indeed get 70 percent of its recruiting leads online now. But not necessarily because aspiring soldiers watched one of the Army's videos produced by ad agency MRM. Still, the Army's most popular clip, "Basic Combat Training." is worth a watch. Don't miss the part between 0:25 and 0:30, where a new…

Facebook now allows advertisers to target users based on their workplace, major, and keywords — which can include a job title. Smart. What's odd is that Microsoft bought a full-page ad in the San Jose Mercury News in order to poach Yahoos, instead of creating a Facebook ad targeting software engineers with computer…

Do a high school kid a favor: make it clear that they will not be playing in the Army Band. The Army Band is one of those trite PR tools that Army recruiters trot out to prove that life in the military is more than just getting scared out of your wits by the possibility of improvised explosive devices around every…

Here in America, we take a lot of freedoms for granted. Sure, it's fun to get on the internet and talk freely, expressing our opinion about everything under the sun—whether the political issue of the day, or just popular music and culture. But we have to remember that those freedoms come with a price. Our brave…

Calling all BabyBjorn-sporting Brooklyn hipster parents! The New York Times is seeking undecided Democrat parents for an upcoming web video. They'd really prefer you be a member of Park Slope Moms (or whatever) and also be one of those types who jabbers on about politics with your pals. Gosh, how ever will they find…

Whether you're cruising in Flushing or hanging at the Jay Street F train stop, you're probably used to being besieged by hot culty evangelicals in clean white shirts. It's totally cool with us, then, if you confuse the 12 beefcake calendar pinups of Mormons Exposed with twink porn. But the project is actually a deep…

Tips pour in about Google's PR hiring push. The guys just wanna bring that classy Sinatra hiring treatment to the world of public relations.

Where did Tom's boys go? A reader at MIT says MySpace is a no-show (despite a Wednesday tip), but Facebook's shopping for CS majors.

A systems manager who once applied at Google told me about a bizarre situation: Google booked two applicants for the same interviewer at the same time. And they just expected everyone to deal with it. It seemed like Google did this all the time, says the applicant.