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Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

As the great resignation continues, many companies are turning to AI-driven HR software to increase retention rates and reduce costs. Looking beyond the conventional HR practices and managing every part of the software engineer lifecycle is a key to increasing talent acquisition margin.

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African Leadership Group acquires coding school Holberton

TechCrunch

“Four years ago, we realized that the world is going through a digital transformation and there will be a need for skills like software engineering, data science, cloud computing, cybersecurity — and so we created ALX,” Swaniker explained. Image Credits: African Leadership Group. “It’s not a high school.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

TechCrunch

In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion. The future is consumer over B2B.

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UK’s greenworkx takes aim at the domestic retrofit skills challenge

TechCrunch

And a training/upskilling/reskilling problem. Commenting in a statement, Nikolas Krawinkel, partner at Mangrove, heralded the opportunity of the looming “green industrial revolution”, writing: “We’re on the cusp of a green industrial revolution, which will require a huge rethink of our education and training systems.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

TechCrunch

1 skill Ramp is looking to hire for now is software engineering, as the company’s main hiring priorities are for engineers and product managers, including entry-level and remote roles (the company is hybrid). Among the positions it’s hiring for are Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Enterprise Account Executive.

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