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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

TechCrunch

After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). HubHaus (2016-2020). Hipmunk (2010-2020). IfOnly (2012-2020). Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift.

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myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform

TechCrunch

Sydney, Australia-based myInterview wants to turn videos into an integral part of recruitment, with a platform that allows candidates to upload video responses to questions. Recruiters also have the option of using myInterview Intelligence, or machine learning-based tools that create shortlists for competitive openings.

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How to recruit data scientists without paying top dollar

TechCrunch

What’s different about hiring data scientists in 2020? And with the pandemic completely stopping all in-person recruiting events , hiring success hinges on an effective job rec. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan and D.E.

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Recruiting operations platform ModernLoop lands $3.3M to create better technical hiring experiences

TechCrunch

Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo started ModernLoop in December 2020 after seeing the problem of technical recruiting firsthand. Han, who was a product manager at Slack, also worked at Brex the same time that her sister was a technical recruiter there and heard about the pain points.

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Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’

TechCrunch

But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to offer, leaving the door open for some disruption. It also provides tools to create and manage online recruitment events.

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Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code

TechCrunch

Prog.ai , as the company is called, allows recruiters to search for developers based on their technical skills, libraries they have used or simply the contributions they have made to projects on GitHub. for tech recruiters, and in April we are going to extend our SaaS offering with Prog.ai Founded out of San Francisco in 2022, Prog.ai

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21 Tech Recruiting Tools To Scale Your Hiring In 2021

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The conventional methods of recruiting can no longer keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of the tech world. With it becoming increasingly difficult to find skilled talent, recruiters have to think out of the box to attract and retain the best candidates out there. Tech recruiting tools for each stage of the hiring process.