A problem emerges when reviewing diversity data: While the reports often describe incremental gains or losses in diversity numbers, they often fail to analyze data that can help make tangible change.
Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent?
My early-stage startup is having a really tough time recruiting engineering talent, but we’re open to hiring internationally. Any suggestions on strategies and how to help our company stand out?
Bringing it in-house: What to look for when hiring a general counsel
Finding the right legal leader will have implications for your business down the line. It’s a move you want to get right from the very beginning.
BrightHire scores $20.5M Series B for Zoom-based job interview app
BrightHire, a startup that wants to transform the way people are hired inside organizations, announced a $20.5 million Series B investment today led by 01 Advisors with participation from Index Ventures and Zoom Apps Fund. The fact that Zoom Apps Fund is involved is not a coincidence, as the company is based on taking information […]
From bootstrapped to a $417M valuation, Chile’s Buk raises $50M for its HR management platform
Chile’s Buk, which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. There are a few notable things about this financing. For one, it represents one of the largest (if not the) […]
Recruiting operations platform ModernLoop lands $3.3M to create better technical hiring experiences
ModernLoop automates many of the repetitive tasks recruiters do while also scheduling and balancing the interviewing workload so the right mix of people are involved and trained.
So You Want To Go To Grad School (in the Academic Humanities)?
“Graduate school application season is upon us and so I wanted to take this as an opportunity to talk about it. Every year, I talk with undergraduate students who are considering pursuing a graduate degree in the humanities, who mostly come to me becau…
Scaling across Series A to C
There is a lot of great content on the start-up phase, but there is little available on how founders can grow a company from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenues.
SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory
CEO Jeremy Johnson sees more competition coming into the global tech talent hiring space as he saw the number of Andela applicants increase 5x in the past six months.
Rippling launches computer inventory management as more workers remain remote
The dashboard enables businesses to automatically store, ship and retrieve employee computers in a way that is remote and hands-free.