Category Archives: recruitment

Microsoft launches Viva, its new take on the old intranet

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Microsoft today launched Viva, a new “employee experience platform,” or, in non-marketing terms, its new take on the intranet sites most large companies tend to offer their employees. This includes standard features like access to internal communications built on integrations with SharePoint, Yammer and other Microsoft tools. In addition, Viva also offers access to team […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Viva, its new take on the old intranet→

Recruitment giant Randstad hit by ransomware, sensitive data stolen

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One of the world’s leading recruitment agencies has found itself the victim of ransomware. In a statement published on Thursday last week, Randstad said that it had “recently become aware of malicious activity” on its network. That &#… Continue reading Recruitment giant Randstad hit by ransomware, sensitive data stolen→

Survey: Cybersecurity Skills Shortage is ‘Bad,’ But There’s Hope

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Automation, strategic process design and an investment in training are the keys to managing the cybersecurity skills gap, according to a recent survey from Trustwave. Continue reading Survey: Cybersecurity Skills Shortage is ‘Bad,’ But There’s Hope→

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places – AKA, the Cyber Security Talent Shortage

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The subject of the cyber security talent shortage has been over-reported to the extent that no one wants to talk about it anymore. Even more than that, the only solution that really ever gets mentioned is developing more university cyber programs. But … Continue reading Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places – AKA, the Cyber Security Talent Shortage→

Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M

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Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important component of how a lot of technology works; now it’s also being applied to how technologists themselves work. Today, one of the startups building such a tool has raised some capital, Tara.ai, a platform that uses machine learning to help an organization get engineering projects done — from […] Continue reading Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M→

Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M

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Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important component of how a lot of technology works; now it’s also being applied to how technologists themselves work. Today, one of the startups building such a tool has raised some capital, Tara.ai, a platform that uses machine learning to help an organization get engineering projects done — from […] Continue reading Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M→

German LinkedIn rival Xing is rebranding as ‘New Work’ acquires recruitment platform Honeypot for up to $64M

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Xing, the business networking platform that has been described as Germany’s answer to LinkedIn, has made an acquisition to beef up its recruitment business ahead of a rebrand of the business as “New Work.” The company has acquired Honeypot, a German startup that has built a job-hunting platform for tech people, for up to €57 […] Continue reading German LinkedIn rival Xing is rebranding as ‘New Work’ acquires recruitment platform Honeypot for up to $64M→

Mixmax brings LinkedIn integration and better task automation to its Gmail tool

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Mixmax today introduced version 2.0 of its Gmail-based tool and plugin for Chrome that promises to make your daily communications chores a bit easier to handle. With version 2.0, Mixmax gets an updated editor that better integrates with the current Gmail interface and that gets out of the way of popular extensions like Grammarly. That’s […] Continue reading Mixmax brings LinkedIn integration and better task automation to its Gmail tool→

Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada

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The recruitment market is big business — worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a big opportunity to build tools to make a recruiter’s work easier, faster and more likely of success in finding the right people for the […] Continue reading Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada→

Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play

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Jobvite, the company that was once an early mover in leveraging social networks to help source job opportunities and find interesting candidates for openings, is today announcing two big moves to double down on its ambition to build a bigger platform for recruitment and applicant tracking. The company has picked up an investment of over […] Continue reading Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play→