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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

TechCrunch

“For our customers, the pandemic has further shed light on a need for recruiting and hiring technology,” Upadhyay told TechCrunch via email. With WizeHire, the goal was to address some of the major pain points that SMBs face where it comes to recruitment, according to Upadhyay. Civitas Learning acquired Hoot.me

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

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There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. Tech right now is an exciting place to be,” she says.

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How a CIO’s approach to cloud, AI and ML is transforming Nigeria’s Dangote Industries

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His endeavour to get into the technology space led him to learn about enterprise application platforms and he eventually started his ERP career at IBM. Since 2013 he’s been overseeing the Dangote Group’s IT operations across Africa. . Prasanna Burri began his career as a mechanical engineer in India but had a secret passion for IT.

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Beamery, the all-in-one talent management platform, becomes a unicorn

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” Certainly, Beamery gained impressive traction this year, growing the size of its customer base to “hundreds” of enterprises and over 25,000 users. ” Beamery was founded in 2013 by Saidov and his brother, Sultan Saidov, along with Mike Paterson. .

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Bonusly, a startup aiming to help employees get recognized for quality work, raises $18.8M

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In an industry poll , 56% of HR leaders told the Society for Human Resource Management that employee recognition programs help with recruiting top talent. Another vendor in the space is Bonusly , which was launched in 2013 by co-founder and CEO Raphael Crawford-Marks. It’s not just employees who see the value.

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OtterTune, which taps AI to optimize databases, raises $12M

TechCrunch

” Pavlo says that he was inspired to launch OtterTune after he became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013. It’ll also be put toward recruitment and hiring efforts, increasing the size of the company’s team from 15 to 30 by 2023.

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The Secret to Successful Recruiting

Strategy Driven

Recruitment has always been a tricky business. There must be a way for recruiters to ensure that they hire only the best and most promising candidates, those who are almost guaranteed to perform and stay in a role for the long term. This saves recruitment officers vast amounts of time in sifting through resumes.