Sending in a resume is the main way a person hope to get noticed for a job. But a startup out of Amsterdam called TestGorilla is today announcing $70 million in funding for a very different kind of approach: it has built an assessment platform that can be used to screen for a wide range of job...
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Bird announced Wednesday it would lay off 23% of its employees from different teams and regions across the globe. Read...
Applying for a frontline job can be a game of hurry-up-and-wait, and communication is not always the best when a company is trying to fill dozens of positions at the same time. Enter Emi, the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial...
Call it the public service announcement to start off your year: If you’re working at a startup where IT is a little fuzzy, policies are evolving as the company is being built and the organization is evolving quickly, you’re at higher risk than usual that your employers are willing to move...
Call it the public service announcement to start off your year: If you’re working at a startup where IT is a little fuzzy, policies are evolving as the company is being built and the organization is evolving quickly, you’re at higher risk than usual that your employers are willing to move...
Jobandtalent raises $500M Series E to keep scaling its ‘workforce as a service’ marketplace
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Spain’s Jobandtalent, a “workforce marketplace”-cum-digital temping agency which uses AI to match workers to casual labor gigs in sectors like warehousing, ecommerce and logistics, has closed a $500 million Series E round of funding led by Kinnevik and with what it bills as a...
Boyd Davis Contributor Share on Twitter Boyd Davis is the CEO and co-founder of Compright, a cloud-based compensation planning tool. Previously, Boyd helped organizations deploy solutions that leveraged data and AI. The Great Resignation is...
Microsoft President Brad Smith in Vancouver, B.C., this week. (Screenshot via webcast)Microsoft now employs more than 1,900 people in Vancouver, B.C., up from less than 800 when the pandemic started in early 2020, part of a broader trend of international growth for the Redmond tech...
Microsoft President Brad Smith in Vancouver, B.C., this week. (Screenshot via webcast)Microsoft now employs more than 1,900 people in Vancouver, B.C., up from less than 800 when the pandemic started in early 2020, part of a broader trend of international growth for the Redmond tech...
Microsoft President Brad Smith in Vancouver, B.C., this week. (Screenshot via webcast)Microsoft now employs more than 1,900 people in Vancouver, B.C., up from less than 800 when the pandemic started in early 2020, part of a broader trend of international growth for the Redmond tech...
Microsoft President Brad Smith in Vancouver, B.C., this week. (Screenshot via webcast)Microsoft now employs more than 1,900 people in Vancouver, B.C., up from less than 800 when the pandemic started in early 2020, part of a broader trend of international growth for the Redmond tech...
Microsoft President Brad Smith in Vancouver, B.C., this week. (Screenshot via webcast)Microsoft now employs more than 1,900 people in Vancouver, B.C., up from less than 800 when the pandemic started in early 2020, part of a broader trend of international growth for the Redmond tech...
Tencent-backed edtech company Yuanfudao attempted to withdraw or defer job offers to more than 2,000 new university graduates as regulators barred a key service. It is the latest Chinese online tutor to move to downsize operations in response to increased regulatory scrutiny. Why it matters:...
Daniel Chait Contributor Share on Twitter Daniel Chait is co-founder and CEO of Greenhouse Software, a recruiting software company that automates and simplifies best practices for hiring talent, and co-author of "Talent Makers: How the Best...
Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and balanced hiring process. The company released its “Diversity Recruitment Platform” in July of 2018 with the aim of helping people earlier in their careers get a...
If you’ve ever been self-employed you know what a pain it is to keep up with the hassles of running a business. From bookkeeping to invoicing to paying taxes — it’s one big headache. Freelancers and self-employed people often turn to a number of different solutions to try and address...
China's latest census figures show that population growth is trailing off. Tech companies will need new sources of...
Joining one of China’s tech majors is a bit like moving to a new country. There’s a lot to learn. On your first day, you pick a new name in the local language. If it’s Alibaba, maybe you try to sound like a swordsman from a Jin Yong novel; if it’s Tencent, it’s probably something...
More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” — after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a...
A job interview can be a lot of work. For interviewees, it’s an intense affair. For companies looking for talent, time consuming. A Chinese startup is attempting to fix the process. Shanghai-based LeapIn makes AI-powered video interviewing software. The company claims it can determine what...
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the economy and job market hard, with massive layoffs and business closures. Hiring was cut, leading many to seek freelance opportunities that boasted the freelancer labor market. A global report by a leading media agency suggests that freelance jobs increased a 25% in...
Biden Labor Secretary Marty Walsh charged into the white hot issue of the gig economy Thursday, asserting that many people working without benefits in the gig economy should be classified as employees instead. In an interview with Reuters, Walsh said that the Department of Labor is “looking...
Rebecca Dixon Contributor Share on Twitter Rebecca Dixon is the executive director of the National Employment Law Project. Today’s app-based or “gig” economy is frequently dressed up in talk about “modern innovation” and the...
With vaccinations topping 90mm doses in the US and upwards of 75mm doses likely to be injected into arms in the US in March, many companies are starting to think about what a return to the office might look like this summer and fall. I read two great posts this weekend talking about what this...
In my Jan 1st post talking about what I expected to happen this year, I wrote: I think we will see the end of the Covid Pandemic in the US sometime in the second quarter. I believe the US will work out the challenges we are having getting out of the gate and will be vaccinating at least 40mm...
Nearly 80% of the 346,000 workers who vanished from the U.S. labor force in January are women
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The pandemic forced another 275,000 women out of the U.S. labor force in January, worsening the catastrophic employment crisis for working women. Women accounted for almost 80% of U.S. adults who stopped working or looking for work last month, according to an analysis of Friday’s jobs report...
Omnipresent, which helps companies employ remote-working local teams worldwide, has closed a $15.8M Series A funding round. The fundraise was led by an undisclosed investor with participation from existing investors, Episode 1, Playfair Capital and Truesight Ventures. The company said it closed the...
In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. I think MLK day is a good time to talk about what has happened since that post. We have identified a number of areas where we must...
In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. I think MLK day is a good time to talk about what has happened since that post. We have identified a number of areas where we must...
Yesterday, I had a gap in the middle of the day. So the Gotham Gal and I took an hour-long walk with our dog Ollie. It cleared my head and when I got back to work, I was full of energy and clarity. I’ve been working exclusively from home since the end of November 2019 when we left NYC to go to...