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

TechCrunch

Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.)

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Vestiaire Collective raises $216 million for its second-hand fashion platform

TechCrunch

French fashion and luxury group Kering is leading the round with Tiger Global Management. The startup operates an online marketplace where you can find pre-owned luxury and fashion items. As you may have noticed, it’s been a bit harder to travel and buy fashion items in store. Kering now owns 5% of Vestiaire Collective.

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Streamline Your Recruitment Process With These 7 Tips

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

If we recruiters dream, it would be about how easy tech recruitment could be—create a job vacancy post, watch the applications pour in, and then, pick the best out of them. And it’s back to reality, which is far removed from this mystical land of simple recruitment! Tips to streamline technical recruitment.

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

CIO

And nearly every company seems poised to adopt artificial intelligence in some fashion. Recruiting activity on the rise A case in point is Thomas Licciardello, CIO and consultant at Northeast CIO’s. Sometimes I gauge that with how often I’m contacted by recruiters, and I have to say the last month it has been picking up.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

TechCrunch

Inclusion is about more than hitting diversity recruiting optics. Delivering on inclusion, therefore, is about more than hitting diversity recruiting optics. And it’s not just the language that you use in your marketing that matters. Have you considered the words used by your hiring managers and recruiters?

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Recruiting vs Talent Management

N2Growth Blog

I recently participated in a panel discussion about the future of the recruiting industry, and quite frankly, I was surprised with many of the prevailing attitudes and thoughts surrounding the topic at hand. This phenomenon is occurring during a time where employment markets worldwide have never been more competitive. I think not.

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Wholesum raises $50M Series A to roll up third-party sellers on e-commerce platforms

TechCrunch

As the boom of the e-commerce aggregator trend continues in Asia, South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce market in the world, is rolling up. “We think our total addressable market is around 45,000 brands that generate in excess of $1 million of sales per year,” Joo told TechCrunch.

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