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myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform

TechCrunch

Though ubiquitous on social media, videos are still rare on job platforms, even though it’s difficult to capture your personality in a resume. Sydney, Australia-based myInterview wants to turn videos into an integral part of recruitment, with a platform that allows candidates to upload video responses to questions.

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Social shopping-focused Chums announces $3.5M raise ahead of YC Demo Day

TechCrunch

Chums is a social shopping service that helps friends suggest products to their pals. Elion declined to share the network, or networks, his company is working with to secure commercial ties with retailers, but did note that in time Chums will go direct to secure better deals. The list includes Runway , Mono , Pangea and Flux.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

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

TechCrunch

TryNow — which provides technology to online retailers that use Shopify Plus to let their customers receive and try out apparel, return what they don’t want and pay only for what they keep — has raised $12 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its business. BlackCart raises $8.8M

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Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Popular AI techniques like computer vision and object recognition have revolutionized the scope of working across healthcare, science, retail, and education to improve the accuracy of success. Many recruiters and HR professionals have decided to transcend into an AI mechanism for better optimization of business assets and growth.

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Wholesale marketplace Abound raises $22.9M

TechCrunch

Abound , an online marketplace that helps independent retailers stock their shelves with new products from up-and-coming brands, is announcing that it has raised $22.9 He told me that small retailers are constantly on the hunt for new products, which means attending trade shows several times a year.

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Retail & Distribution Software Development Services

Mobilunity

Arthur C Clarke’s well-known adage that “a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” describes the essence of what we would expect of tomorrow’s retail & distribution technology. Retail companies are aiming to stay afloat and successfully deal with the ever-changing trade environment.