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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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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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They point to statistics that highlight challenges in IT workforce recruitment and diversity. According to The State of the Tech Workforce 2023 report from training and certification organization CompTIA , professionals identifying as Black or African American made up 8% of US tech occupations (compared to 12% across all US occupations).

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UI-licious gets $1.5M led by Monk’s Hill Ventures to simplify automated UI testing for web apps

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Founded in 2016 by Shi Ling Tai and Eugene Cheah, UI-licious serves companies of all sizes, and its current clients include Daimler, Jones Lang LaSalle and tech recruitment platform Glints. The problem is that most software testers are not trained programmers, sometimes they may be the marketing or sales team that owns the project.

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Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry

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But it raised questions as to why the brand didn’t recruit more models with the diverse characteristics it’s seeking, given the difficulty these models have had finding opportunities in the fashion industry historically. According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.) Enshrined in U.S.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

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These algorithms were built on top of an advanced analytics self-service platform, enhancing the agility of our data modeling, training, and predictive processes,” Gopalan explains. To overcome this, we trained the laboratory analysts on how to use the platform and piloted the initial use case to gather feedback,” Gopalan says.

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Jobandtalent tops up with $108M for its ‘workforce as a service’ platform

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.” Jobandtalent has been through a number of pivots since kicking off more than a decade ago with the idea of using technology to streamline the messy and consummately human business of recruitment.

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Fab founder Jason Goldberg is back with Moxie, a new live-streaming fitness marketplace

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In just the last two weeks , three-year-old Future, which promises at-home customers access to elite training, closed on $24 million in Series B funding; and Playbook, a nearly five-year-old fitness platform that helps personal trainers stream their content (and charge a monthly fee for it), raised $9.3 million in Series A funding.