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Recruiting marketplace Paraform gets backing from Primer Sazze and Twitch founders

TechCrunch

Paraform , a startup that wants to change how the recruiting industry works by taking a marketplace approach, is giving professional recruiters a new way to find work by going freelance. Before co-founding Paraform, CEO Kim launched and sold a recruiting startup called RulerNetwork. Paraform founders Jeffrey Li and John Kim.

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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. As a serial founder, Nwobi ran a couple of tech businesses, most notably mobile internet company MTech in the early 2000s. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5

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Landed tackles hospitality employee turnover with end-to-end recruitment matching tool

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The company touts itself as the “first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries,” by automating the process of candidate sourcing, engagement and interviewing. Workstream raised $48 million in Series B funding for its text-based recruitment approach. That’s where Landed comes in.

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Dedicated Team Model in Software Engineering

Apiumhub

Along with time and materials (T&M) and fixed price (FP), the dedicated team is a model of collaboration between the customer and the software engineering provider. A dedicated team usually includes front-end and back-end developers, mobile developers, QA engineers, software architects, DevOps engineers, and product owners.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO

Recruiting in the tech industry remains strong, according to the report. DevOps engineers must be able to deploy automated applications, maintain applications, and identify the potential risks and benefits of new software and systems. The survey also reveals the average salaries for each role based on experience.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

After six years as a software engineer at Oracle, Xie left the U.S. On the other hand, China has seen rapid development in mobile internet and AI, especially in terms of real-life applications, which Xie argued makes China a suitable testing ground for data processing software. and headed home to start Zilliz in China.

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.