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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

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The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch What do I do?

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AgentSync raises $75M for its insurance-focused API business

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insurance world kept proving to be a growth business. December 2020: ~$3 million to $4 million ARR, 4x growth since March 2020 [ TechCrunch estimate based on shared metrics ]. But the startup has moved into providing recruiting data regarding brokers themselves for carriers, for example. million seed round in August 2020.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: After the exit, starting up in stealth, Wag’s SPAC plans

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How to recruit when your software startup is in stealth mode. Hiring for an early-stage startup is challenging, but recruiting for a company that’s still in stealth brings a unique set of problems. ” How to recruit when your software startup is in stealth mode. 4 signs to look for when evaluating ESG investments.

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Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019

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When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. Like Carbon, other startups on the continent have followed suit by releasing year-on-year metrics.

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In Conversation: Charles Rue, Head Of Talent Acquisition, IHS Markit

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Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the globe, and ask them pertinent questions on the issues that ail the tech recruiting world. For this first edition, we spoke with Charles Rue, Head of Talent Acquisition (EMEA) , at IHS Markit.

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Thailand’s Salary Hero is an earned wage access startup that wants to add neobanking products

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In the future, Salary Hero plans to add neo banking products, including at-source savings accounts, insurance products, remittances and other financial services like micro-investments and debt restructuring advice. How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric.

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Jobandtalent tops up with $108M for its ‘workforce as a service’ platform

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.” Jobandtalent has been through a number of pivots since kicking off more than a decade ago with the idea of using technology to streamline the messy and consummately human business of recruitment. While some platform giants, like Uber, have already felt politically pressured to offer a level of insurance in the region.