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

TechCrunch

Tons of things, like automating content for social media influencers, models for marketeers’ ads and ecommerce product photography.” According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.) and Surreal are securing big VC investments for tech that generate virtual fashion models, ethics be damned.

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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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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

TechCrunch

James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Today, the age of corporate social justice is dawning. Inclusion is about more than hitting diversity recruiting optics. Unfortunately, many companies get this wrong.

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Purpose-Driven Board Leadership; What to Consider in Your Next Board Recruitment

N2Growth Blog

Board recruitment is virtually nothing like hiring for your average role vacancy. With that in mind, board recruitment should be approached from the angle of purpose-driven leadership, which can drive organizations to nominate Board Directors who bring new skills and experiences to strengthen the board’s overall composition.

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TryNow raises $12M to bring try-before-you-buy, Prime Wardrobe as a service to online retailers

TechCrunch

Fashion has been a primary focus for “try before you buy” services online, but the model is not limited to it. “Prime Wardrobe has solidified the power of that model for fashion, but we believe it’s much larger. . We think that any purchase that is discretionary should be tried before it is bought.”

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Margot Tien, Software Engineer

Cloudera

From fashion to data flow, in this #ClouderaLife Spotlight Margot talks about her career transition from fashion design to cloud computing and her co-founding of Cloudera’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community Employee Resource Group amid the racial tensions of 2021. . I had self-doubt, but I knew this is what I wanted.”.

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2023 Initiatives for the CFO & CIO

Perficient

Operations, finance & accounting, recruiting, marketing, external reporting, customer relationship management… all rely on innovative technological solutions to provide organizations with a competitive edge. And retaining or recruiting great talent will be a major goal for the foreseeable future.