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

TechCrunch

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. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

To reinforce the creator culture, Wenhold’s group hosts regular events like hackathons and Nitro Create, a development conference keyed to specific themes designed to encourage people to think outside the box. We built a culture based on those themes and traits we wanted to see on our team.”

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Finding a Perfect Technical Recruiter

Mobilunity

Nowadays, businesses no longer look for recruitment services when building an IT team. Instead, companies seek the assistance of skilled tech recruiters who specialize in sourcing and hunting developers and other IT experts. Who Are Technical Recruiters? In IT recruiting, speed is often everything.

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

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So based on early results, the three functional areas where companies see the biggest productivity improvements are in customer service, software development, and general creative and knowledge work. AI models are able to present best practice code systems to help junior developers learn and hone their skills.”

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Extra Crunch roundup: Metromile CEO interview, Oscar Health’s IPO plans, our 2-year anniversary, more

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Thanks to hard work from the entire TechCrunch team, authoritative guest contributors and a very engaged reader base, we’ve tripled our membership in the last 12 months. The quartet selected four startups each from Chicago, Boston and Techstars Workplace Development. “Often these founders with Ph.D.s Proactive in Pacifica.

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

CIO

Rau hired a former Apple colleague who approached him and was incentivized by the offer to run the software engineering team at the Indianapolis-based Lilly after hearing about the types of projects he could work on. “I Engineers throughout millennia want to do something that’s bigger than themselves and can last.”

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Bridging the IT leadership gender gap

CIO

Lack of program structure, poor mentor and mentee matching, and inconsistent commitment between participants can impede effectiveness, says Dr. Christie Struckman, a research vice president at Gartner, who argues that these programs often intimate that something needs to be fixed in the women participants.