article thumbnail

TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

TechCrunch

Traditionally, companies hold in-person sales kickoffs (SKOs) in January and February to network, educate sales teams about new products and devise strategies for the year ahead. These days, the convention centers and hotel ballrooms that once hosted those events are dark and quiet. 3 ways web3 recruiters can improve their hiring game.

article thumbnail

Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO

Recruiting, retainment, and yes, adoption of lead-edge technology, are back on the radar of IT leaders. and in terms of certain aspects of recruiting, she also sees the glass as half full. “The As an industry we’ve set a bad precedent: If employees want a raise, they change jobs.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

CIO

Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

Sport 211
article thumbnail

Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

TechCrunch

companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” The company is looking for customer-focused skills and asks candidates to tell them about “a time you learned something from a team member that changed your mind or widened your perspective.” Brex is 100% remote. billion valuation. Earlier this year, Solvo raised a $3.5

Fintech 248
article thumbnail

SaaStr London: Efficiency, Alignment, Ingenuity, Unfundability, & Ice Cream

Daniel Bryant

This included a lot of what we would call “guerrilla marketing” or “growth hacking” at events, such as sponsoring the hotel room keycards, handing out “Brex-fast” burritos, and scheduling magic shows at a sponsored booth.

article thumbnail

AoAD2 Practice: Adaptive Planning

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. We’ve already talked about the purpose of this team. But any team can use them.

article thumbnail

Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. This means gaining buy-in from stakeholders by developing a sense of urgency that will spark the initial motivation and get things moving.