Financial adversity is at the forefront of many retail SME leaders’ agenda. With 22 per cent of retail SMEs believing that it will take them up to two years to recover from the financial constraints of the pandemic, it’s never been more important to review your finance departments. It is vital that they maintain their
“ AI will augment HR and give HR time to work on more strategic business issues, The opportunity is to use AI to streamline HR manual processes and provide a more consumer grade service to the employees”
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 22, 2021. We have startup product news, funding rounds and a roster of Big Tech updates for you today. But before we get into
Usually, a teacher who grades students on a curve is boosting the efforts of those who didn’t perform well on the test. In the case of cloud companies, however, it’s the other way around. As of Q1 2021, startups in this sector have median Series A rounds around $8 million, reports PitchBook. With $100+ million
The founders of Holy Grail, a two-year old startup based in Mountain View, California, are taking a micro approach to solving the outsized problem of capturing carbon. The startup is prototyping a direct air carbon capture device that it is modular and small ’ a departure from the dozens of projects in the U.S. and
Viva Republica, the Seoul-based fintech company behind Toss, a super app with more than 40 financial services, announced today it has raised $410 million at a post-money valuation of $7.4 billion. The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning
Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me. The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. Our conversation with the company’s CEO, Chris Bennett was the first time he’d been through the seed-stage deck. Their partnership
As a certified and award-winning resume writer, I face this dilemma on a daily basis. Most resumes contain a lot of “fat” in the form of run-on sentences, unwieldy skill descriptions, lackluster branding, and unnecessary details. By trimming these problem areas, your resume can become a lean, mean, brand communication machine. But isn’t it better
Today, RChilli announced its Data Migration Service that will streamline the process of onboarding new clients into an ATS by migrating their data from old ATS/CRM to the new ATS. The company has been serving ATS, Job boards, and Enterprises for the last decade with its intelligent solutions like resume parser, semantic search & match, taxonomy, and
Companies are coming out with their remote identity. Morgan Stanley says no to remote, or you will need to take a serious pay cut. Deloitte believes employees can work from where ever they want, and KPMG in the UK wants employees at least 2 days a week in the office. All kinds of different research shows, on average, that
People are living longer and working longer. At some organizations, the workforce can even comprise up to five different generations, spanning from Traditionalists to Gen Z. And while each particular cohort has its own unique strengths, it can be a tricky task trying to understand how to leverage a multigenerational team for success. Luckily, we
The fundamental understanding of an impactful recruiter is that it’s a person able to”sell a company to top talents as the best place to work. Most still consider this person an outgoing, energetic, and talkative specialist whose extroverted nature works the room and convinces candidates of accepting an offer. But the catch is that, with
Storytelling about Talenya with Gal Almog Welcome to the Use Case Podcast, episode 93. This week we have storytelling about Talenya with Gal Almog. During this episode, Gal and I talk about how practitioners make the business case or the use case for purchasing Talenya’s diversity sourcing solution. Gal is an expert in the recruitment industry
Mobile commerce is where it’s at, and rising investment in so-called conversational commerce startups underscores the opportunity. Via, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based startup, is among those riding the wave, having identified some trends that are becoming clearer by the month. First, more e-commerce sales will be on mobile phones this year than desktops (as much
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 21, 2021. The tech industry is skipping any sort of a summer slowdown. Facebook is taking on Clubhouse and Spotify, India is still figuring
Facebook’s efforts to bring advertising to the Oculus virtual reality platform it has spent billions of dollars building out doesn’t seem to be off to a great start. The company announced last week that they were planning to roll out their first in-game ads inside the title “Blaston” from the prolific VR game developer Resolution
Hiring qualified candidates is a crucial part of a business’s success and the office’s atmosphere. However, the recruiting and screening process can be demanding, time-consuming, and expensive without a good plan. Below are a few strategies your business can use to find quality employees without overextending yourself or management. Use a Database Regardless of how
Ubco, the New Zealand-based electric utility bike startup, has raised $10 million to fund a global expansion focused on the U.S. market and scale up its commercial subscription service business. Ubco’s hero product, the Ubco 2X2, is an all-wheel drive electric motorbike that looks like a dirt bike but rides like a moped. What began
Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx are the two latest casualties of Twitch’s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing rules around sexually suggestive content. Both creators were suspended following ASMR streams that pushed the bounds of Twitch’s community guidelines forbidding content that isn’t quite sexual in nature but is still too risqué for a
As a certified and award-winning resume writer, I face this dilemma on a daily basis. Most resumes contain a lot of “fat” in the form of run-on sentences, unwieldy skill descriptions, lackluster branding, and unnecessary details. By trimming these problem areas, your resume can become a lean, mean, brand communication machine. But isn’t it better
Increased productivity, heightened workplace morale, and more competitive benefits packages ’ these are some of the positive impacts that companies have reported since implementing the ’unlimited holiday’ scheme. This new take on holiday allowance first started to grow within US-based tech start-ups as a way to stand out from their larger competitors but has since
More data that indicates employers actively consider their current workers as candidates for open positions. In its first State of Internal Recruiting Report, SmartRecruiters said enterprise employers continue to face significant challenges in terms of implementing and scaling recruiting programs, even though internal mobility has for some time been seen as a top-performing source of
“Two or three months’ vacation after the hard and nervous strain to which one is subjected…are necessary in order to enable one to continue his work…with energy and effectiveness.” -President William Taft, 1910. Apparently, Americans weren’t keen on the idea of a nice, long vacation and no law was passed. Other industrialized countries took
I often think of scarcity in terms of goods available. If you live in Indianapolis and you need a new swimsuit in September…best wishes. However, if you need one in March, no worries; Spring Break prep is in full swing and you’ll have plenty of options. You could shop online at any time of year
Today we have Cris Grossmann on from Beekeeper, and we’re gonna be talking about digital transformation and the reemergence of the frontline workforce. He has recently written a book called the Rise of the Frontline Worker, so we’ll discuss that a bit as well. Of course, the pandemic has really uncovered just how essential frontline workers
(See the full version.) The never-documented LinkedIn search operators make people search with a personal account – Business, Job Seeker, and Basic – comparable or better than the most expensive subscription, LinkedIn Recruiter. Let’s go over a comparison, operator by operator. headline: The operator works in LinkedIn Business (and Basic). The search for the headline
Today, on Juneteenth, we recognize the efforts this nation still needs to put toward addressing structural racism and disparities, including in the world of tech. This week, HBCUvc, a nonprofit that aims to diversify the world of venture capital, launched a million-dollar fund. Founder Hadiyah Mujhid told me that the capital would provide nondilutive financing
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices
Text Message Recruiting Software: A comprehensive review of the best platforms available According to FinancesOnline , 48% of global consumers prefer SMS as their source of brand updates. With the increased development of mobile applications comes the upgraded originality of the recruitment strategies. Proactive talent scouts should not miss the chance of text recruiting as an effective
Eindhoven might not immediately spring to mind as a high-tech hub, but the Netherlands city is keen to position itself as a center for deep tech in Europe. The Technical University of Eindhoven, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, and locally based corporates like ASML and Philips have been eyeing initiatives across Europe and applying what they’ve
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