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Snorkel AI scores $35M Series B to automate data labeling in machine learning

TechCrunch

. “The not so hidden secret about AI today is that in spite of all the technological and tooling advancements, roughly 80 to 90% of the cost and time for an average AI project goes into just manually labeling and collecting and relabeling this training data,” he said. That’s where the Application Studio comes in.

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Gloat nabs $90M to build AI-powered internal jobs marketplaces

TechCrunch

The list of employee recruitment, acquisition and jobs boards products is practically endless — see Workday, LinkedIn and SAP SuccessFactors to start. Across the market, there are a number of recruiting … tools to source external candidates, but internal mobility poses unique and nuanced challenges.

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High Turnover is Not a Recruitment Problem, So What is It?

Steve Farber

[ I’m happy to share this guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Kennedy —a veteran of the automotive industry and renowned automotive recruiter. As an automotive recruiter I should be laughing all the way to the bank—but this is no laughing matter. This isn’t a recruiting problem, it’s an environment problem.

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Battery Ventures Sees AI’s Massive Impact On Tech, And It’s Here Already

Crunchbase News

Thakker joined Battery in 2015 to build out its infrastructure, data and cloud practice. An engineer by training, he started his career interning at semiconductor companies, then switched to software and was an early employee and co-founder of smaller companies in infrastructure and security that were later acquired.

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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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How Duolingo became fluent in monetization

TechCrunch

One thing that recruited me was this brilliance that we can kill two birds with one stone,” she said, referring to Duolingo’s original translation-service business model we talked about in part one of this EC-1. This became controversial for us once we raised a ton of money, and we still weren’t making more money.”.

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Senior care startup Honor secures $370M in debt and equity, reaches unicorn status

TechCrunch

When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said. It also assists with caregiver recruiting, training, scheduling and performance analysis. . Image credit: Honor Technology, Inc.

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