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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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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO

Given the value diversity has for business outcomes, it’s more important than ever to have a serious strategy for creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, which has become a vital factor for recruiting, hiring, and retaining workers, especially women. Here are three of note.

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

CIO

Since 2013 he’s been overseeing the Dangote Group’s IT operations across Africa. . We use recruiting tools for job board postings, and online assessment tools to pick qualified people based on the job specification. Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology.

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Five Ways AI Can Help States Solve Their Hardest Problems (Part 3): Streamline Talent Acquisition

DataRobot

Between 2013 and 2017, job listings in 27 states rose by 11 percent while applicant numbers tumbled by 24 percent, compounding talent vacancy issues within state and local governments. employment, are facing more difficulty than ever in their ability to recruit and retain high-performing employees.

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Ahead of planned IPO, Knightscope’s CEO discusses opportunity and controversy

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by William Santana Li, a Ford executive, and Stacy Stephens, a former Texas police officer (the co-founders of police vehicle firm Carbon Motors), the Mountain View-based firm has risen to national prominence with its high-profile surveillance robots. WL: I’m a former car guy. I couldn’t be more grateful.

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Diversity of a Different Persuasion

N2Growth Blog

As an Executive Recruiter, I have been asked to identify candidates who are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and even geography. In the 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Corporate Directors Survey it was reported that the average age of board directors is 68 and mandatory retirement has risen to 72-75.

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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

Erik Bernhardsson

2012 and 2013 were pretty slow, but a few of my blog posts would occasionally get picked up by some obscure online forum and get a few hundred hits in a day. In late 2014, I wrote a blog post about my experiment training a neural network to play chess. This is monthly page views since 2013. A few hundred hits in a day!

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