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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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Crew aims to build the ‘HubSpot for recruiting’

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Amine Skalli recruited teams for ten years, including four as a tech professional recruiter. In her last startup, he relied exclusively on outbound recruiting — in other words, proactively searching for and contacting potential candidates for open positions. “So I decided to create the HubSpot for recruiting.”

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

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While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 He co-founded Ringier One Africa Media-owned Jobberman, one of Africa’s most popular recruitment platforms. Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed.

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