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Recruiting marketplace Paraform gets backing from Primer Sazze and Twitch founders

TechCrunch

Paraform , a startup that wants to change how the recruiting industry works by taking a marketplace approach, is giving professional recruiters a new way to find work by going freelance. Before co-founding Paraform, CEO Kim launched and sold a recruiting startup called RulerNetwork. Paraform founders Jeffrey Li and John Kim.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware. I spoke to tech leaders, technical recruiters, and CIOs about how they have cracked this nut to hire the top-tier tech talent they need. Here is their advice. That won’t work.”

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iCIMS acquires video recruiting startup Altru for $60M

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Enterprise recruiting company iCIMS is announcing that it has acquired Altru. Founded in 2000, iCIMS offers a “talent cloud” used by more than 4,000 employers attract, engage and hire new employees, and to help existing employees continue to develop their careers. to improve recruiting with employee videos.

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How to recruit when your software startup is in stealth mode

TechCrunch

Michael Fey leads Island as co-founder and CEO, relying on his extensive experience in cyber security, enterprise software and cloud technology. Recruiting while in stealth mode. Working in stealth mode for over a year required me and co-founder Dan Amiga to take a highly personalized approach to recruitment.

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.

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Recruiting operations platform ModernLoop lands $3.3M to create better technical hiring experiences

TechCrunch

Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo started ModernLoop in December 2020 after seeing the problem of technical recruiting firsthand. Han, who was a product manager at Slack, also worked at Brex the same time that her sister was a technical recruiter there and heard about the pain points. Its co-founders are from Dropbox and Facebook.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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