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Welcome to the Jungle grabs $54 million for its slick job platform

TechCrunch

The startup helps other companies recruit new employees more easily by creating sophisticated profiles packed with a ton of information. Clients also add job openings and more information about benefits, corporate culture and the existing team. There are already more than 300 people working for Welcome to the Jungle. “It’s

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The need for true equity in equity compensation

TechCrunch

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. But the rubber meets the road once hires get past the recruiter. since 2015, and in 2020, women make $0.81 This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.”

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The Go-Getter’s guide to diversity hiring in tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Diversity has always been a top priority for recruitment and talent acquisition. With increasing pressure on closing open tech positions, recruiters can get sucked into the vacuum of forming (biased) opinions about a candidate and using that as a means for making decisions, rather than objectively analyzing a candidate’s ability to code.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

TechCrunch

As companies were recruiting myself and my classmates, Aram was trying to get his resume picked up, but wasn’t getting attention because of where he went to college, even though he was the greatest programmer I had ever known,” Sloyan told TechCrunch. to study at MIT. He then went on to work at Google. “As Hiring talent is the No.

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Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier

TechCrunch

Angel investors like Warren Hogarth, co-founder of Empower Finance; Jon Williams, co-founder of Culture Amp and Pyn; Jason Smale, senior vice president of engineering at Zendesk; and Robbie Allan, former group product manager at Intercom also participated. One of its most important features is customer recruitment and filtering tools.

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How Duolingo became fluent in monetization

TechCrunch

Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million.

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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

A McKinsey survey found that 82% of companies don’t believe they recruit highly talented people, and only 7% think they can retain top talent once hired. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% Employee Engagement and Retention Employee engagement is a critical factor in retention.