Karat raises $110M on a $1.1B valuation to grow its technical...
In the global race for technical talent, companies are on the hunt for ways to speed up and scale the hiring process to snap up the best candidates before their competitors get to them. Today, a...
View ArticleFiverr acquires Stoke Talent for $95M, adding freelance management tools for...
On the heels of LinkedIn last week launching Service Marketplace, a competitor to freelance platforms like Fiverr and Upwork, today Fiverr announced an acquisition that speaks to how it plans to stay...
View ArticleWhy we rebuilt our equity plan for flexibility (and how you can, too)
Colin Turner Contributor Share on Twitter Colin Turner is co-founder and COO of Postscript, an SMS marketing platform leveraged by thousands of Shopify businesses. Mailchimp made headlines last month...
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Seasoned spices up restaurant hiring after bagging $18.7M
With restaurants having difficulty hiring workers, as is the environment today, one company is developing a hiring platform and restaurant worker network that aims to make that easier. Seasoned...
View ArticleAs human capital grows scarce, flexible compensation can help attract and...
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...
View ArticleJobandtalent raises $500M Series E to keep scaling its ‘workforce as a...
Spain’s Jobandtalent — a “workforce marketplace” and digital temping agency that uses AI to match workers to casual labor gigs in sectors like warehousing, e-commerce and logistics — has closed a $500...
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Be aware: Your company is watching you
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...
View ArticleOtta, a jobs platform with a database approach, raises $20M Series A from Tiger
You’d think that platforms offering jobs listings couldn’t be innovated on much these days, but London-based Otta wants to prove that theory wrong. It has a platform for matching jobs at tech companies...
View ArticleEmi’s technology makes hiring frontline workers faster
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...
View ArticleHow to hire great engineers when you don’t have any technical expertise
Marcelo Wiermann Contributor Marcelo Wiermann leads the global recommendations engineering division at Delivery Hero, one of the world's leading online food ordering and quick commerce companies....
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Archie aims to remove the complexity of managing freelancers
As more people moved to remote work over the past few years, there was also an uptick in people choosing freelance or contract work, leaving companies to figure out how to manage that worker segment....
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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program
More Americans than ever want to escape the rut of a low-paying job, but quitting to pursue a new profession is a risky proposition. Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and...
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Landed tackles hospitality employee turnover with end-to-end recruitment...
If “The Great Resignation” taught us anything, it is that people want to be appreciated, respected and well paid for their work. Staff turnover in restaurants and hospitality has always been an issue,...
View ArticleSWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public
Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. The company’s LinkedIn profile shows it has over 1,330 employees....
View ArticleTestGorilla scores $70M for skills tests aiming to replace the recruitment...
Sending in a resume is the main way a person hopes 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...
View ArticleStartup layoffs, the art of reinvention and a MasterClass in change
Just as one company’s success shouldn’t cast a halo on its vertical’s brethren, one company’s layoffs don’t quite mean that its competitors are equally screwed. Instead, I think that changes within a...
View ArticleLawyers seek emergency protection for laid-off Tesla workers
Lawyers representing two former Tesla employees who were terminated in mid-June have filed an emergency motion asking a judge to prohibit the electric vehicle maker from forcing workers to sign...
View Article10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully
Nolan Church Contributor Share on Twitter Nolan Church is the co-founder and CEO of Continuum. He was previously chief people officer at Carta and head of talent at DoorDash. In an economic climate...
View ArticleWayfair to lay off 5% of its workforce, or nearly 900 employees
Wayfair, the online home goods retailer, announced today it was laying off close to 900 employees as a way to reprioritize investment needs and meet the company’s current needs. This comes after the...
View ArticleHow tech giants are responding to the growing green card backlog
In early August, Amazon’s SVP of human resources, Beth Galetti, penned a blog post urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expedite the processing of employment-based green cards. The plea...
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