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March 26, 2012 07:44 pm GMT

Smarterer Hits 5M Questions Answered In Its Quest To Help You Show Employers What You Know

smartererlogoAs Education 2.0 looms, we're seeing a rise remote learning, self-education, smart software, all of which is allowing people to learn and to teach at their own pace -- inside the classroom or out. As this becomes more and more true, coupled with the noise that one finds online today in job forums, employers and businesses are looking for more effective ways to identify the right candidate with the right set of skills.There are a million different approaches. LinkedIn knows it has to change, and is considering a skills section, Identified, BranchOut, and Bullhorn are combining your social graph with (at least in the case of Identified) a reputation score. While a more tried and true measure, employed by sites like Odesk and Elance, ply freelancers with tests that allow them to prove their skills. You may not have heard of it yet, but there is a similar motive at work behind Smarterer.

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