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We see hundreds on Job portals these days. But here is an interesting one. Ryan Kuder, a ex-Yahoo along with Jonathan Tarud (a non Yahoo) has launched  Purple People Collective, a website aiming to help ex-yahoo employees to find suitable jobs based on their skills.

But you may think, what has it to do with Yahoo, its THE COLOR, as we all know purple is the color of Yahoo and PPC is colored “bleeding purple”.

Kuder was himself  laid off in February. Here is what he says why he developed the site.

There was Facebook and LinkedIn and IM and Twitter, but what I really wanted was a way for us fellow ex-Yahoos to find each other and help each other find work. There were lots of referrals for freelance work, but they all happened peer to peer. If only there was a place where we could all get together and proudly say, ‘We got laid off, and we can help you!’ it would be a hell of a lot easier for the recruiters to find us….So when Yahoo went through its second round of layoffs on December 10, the Purple People Collective was born. Hopefully it can help match up some folks in need of short term work with some folks who need short term work. We know there are lots of people getting laid off these days, not just Yahoos, so it’s open to anyone who’s recently out of work.

Quite remarkable, this move. What do you think?

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