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Canadians are polite, but we’re still recruiting your biotech talent, America

TechCrunch

Trump is gone now, but Canada hasn’t stopped trying to recruit talent from its neighbor — and one of the hottest fronts in this talent war is biotech. Much of the action is in biotech. Many of these firms have cashed in on the pandemic biotech investment boom, racking in a record amount of venture capital in 2020.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

Despite the pressing need, CIOs say it is difficult to find qualified experts, especially in advanced areas like AI/ML and cybersecurity, the survey found. From a company standpoint, you minimize turnover and search and recruiting costs.”

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

However, the pandemic has allowed an acceleration in the adoption of remote work organization, enabling the search and recruitment of talents from abroad. Material science and biotech. Food and beverage, biotech, automation and tourism. Mainly biotech and company involved in developing various anti-COVID solutions.

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How Cerebral and Alto Neuroscience embarked on an at-home clinical trial for depression

TechCrunch

Specifically, the project will recruit an estimated 200 volunteers from the Cerebral platform who are currently struggling with depression, and have seen no benefit from existing treatments. When McKinsey surveyed those same organizations again in 2020, 100% expected decentralized trials to play a large role. .

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Top 10 countries attracting international tech talent

CIO

And with tech talent in high demand around the world, enterprises are increasing efforts to recruit international tech talent and open tech hubs in foreign countries. A survey from global talent marketplace Andela found that 88% of enterprise companies are looking for top tech talent in other countries.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Other investors felt that a broader range of industries, like fintech and biotech, would eventually produce the biggest companies in the country. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Many of our companies are continuing to recruit and hire.

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Is New York Now the World’s Best Tech City?

BrainStation Technology

This year also marked the first time that KPMG’s annual Global Technology Industry Innovation Survey found more than half of respondents predicting that Silicon Valley would no longer be the technology innovation center of the world in four years. The New York tech sector is succeeding largely because New York is succeeding.”.