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TaskHuman lands $20M to expand its virtual coaching platform

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TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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Other sports have been quick to embrace the use of data and analytics to transform how athletes are recruited, trained, and prepped for competitions, how they adjust to changing circumstances during play, and how they break down successes and failures after competition.

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Skills-first hiring has CIOs rethinking talent strategies

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Snyder, secretary of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and Commonwealth CIO for Massachusetts, responded by overhauling the agency’s recruitment and retention practices. It is a whole new way in which to attract, recruit, onboard, develop, and manage.

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Valence unveils training program to help build pipeline of Black execs

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Today Valence , a startup dedicated to empowering Black professionals, announced a new program called BONDS, which is designed to help companies train, retain and promote Black employees. “People want the numbers to go up, and there’s [this notion of] recruit, retain and promote.

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Rising Team, with $3 million seed, is a platform that combines management tools with training

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But she’s identified a problem that most people managers will all too clearly understand: training and tools to be a great manager are at a shortage. Dulski explained that there are some tools for managers, like surveys from Gallup and Glint, and there are training options, like executive coaches.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

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A blended approach to recruitment I’m a strong advocate of the traditional approach to recruiting talent, i.e., identifying individuals who have the right education, certifications, experience, and qualifications. One of my mantras is this: recruit for attitude, train for competence, coach for performance.

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