<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="https://www.businessinsider.com/image/503e4dc969bedd522700000d-400-300/larry-ellison.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="Larry Ellison" width="400" height="300" /><p class="source">AP</p><p class="caption">Larry Ellison is recruiting.</p></div><p></p></div><keyword id="43340" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oracle">Oracle</keyword> just <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/selectminds/index.html">bought SelectMinds</a>, a New York-based maker of social recruiting tools.</p>
<p><keyword id="1739511" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="SelectMinds">SelectMinds</keyword> specializes in mining current and former employees' networks for job referrals. Oracle plans to tie it into other software products which manage companies' talent.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, <keyword id="154290" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</keyword>, the upstart that's proving to be Oracle's archrival in cloud software, bought a startup, Rypple, that manages some human-capital functions.</p>
<p><keyword id="815800" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Workday">Workday</keyword>, a company that's in registration to go public, also does cloud-based software that helps companies manage employees.</p>
<p>Some of this software overlaps with the recruiting functions many businesses use LinkedIn for. But SelectMinds also manages job listings on LinkedIn.</p>
<p>The eventual aim for all the players in the market is to manage employees all the way through their career-from identifying them as a prospective hire, to bringing them on board, to cultivating their performance over time.</p>
<p>Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed.</p>

With Its Latest Acquisition, Oracle Wants To Help You Get A Job

<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="https://www.businessinsider.com/image/503e4dc969bedd522700000d-400-300/larry-ellison.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="Larry Ellison" width="400" height="300" /><p class="source">AP</p><p class="caption">Larry Ellison is recruiting.</p></div></div><keyword id="43340" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oracle">Oracle</keyword> just <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/selectminds/index.html">bought SelectMinds</a>, a New York-based maker of social recruiting tools.</p>
<p><keyword id="1739511" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="SelectMinds">SelectMinds</keyword> specializes in mining current and former employees' networks for job referrals. Oracle plans to tie it into other software products which manage companies' talent.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, <keyword id="154290" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</keyword>, the upstart that's proving to be Oracle's archrival in cloud software, bought a startup, Rypple, that manages some human-capital functions.</p>
<p><keyword id="815800" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Workday">Workday</keyword>, a company that's in registration to go public, also does cloud-based software that helps companies manage employees.</p>
<p>Some of this software overlaps with the recruiting functions many businesses use LinkedIn for. But SelectMinds also manages job listings on LinkedIn.</p>
<p>The eventual aim for all the players in the market is to manage employees all the way through their career—from identifying them as a prospective hire, to bringing them on board, to cultivating their performance over time.</p>
<p>Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed.</p>

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