Social gaming and the possibility of career development platform to gild raises $ 2.4 million

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GILD, TechCrunch Disrupt startup that combines social games developer promotion raises $ 2.4 million in new funding sources, led by Globespan Capital Partners.

Founder of Sheeroy Desai said that the company turn to focus on developers, seeing how many engineers combine Gild. On the merits of the Gild is a place for developers to share their knowledge.

GILD allows developers to submit their resume for professional opportunities as any other site placement of workers, but adds another twist. Company posting jobs created competitions as "Brain Buster" programming puzzles and other coding checks and job seekers to complete these problems on the site, to get their score and are ranked accordingly.

You can participate in multiple contests to help increase your chances and Gild will allow you to improve your profile by filling out the certification tests and other problems. How do you execute on Gild and win tournaments, you can also get the icons to show their skills and knowledge. The site also tells you how many people have asked for the same work, and even takes step in telling you how you compare, based on your stats.

GILD also allows members to create profiles of their skills and find and compare their skills with other developers around the world. Running said that he now has almost half a million members and is used by the Oracle, wise, Harrah 's, Salesforce.com, eBay, VistaPrint and others.

GILD-where developers are beginning to build, share, compare and improve their skills. Gild skills profiles, based on reliable data from testing, validation and verification of the real world ...

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