Leading Saudi Arabian recruitment vertical Bab Rizq Jameel Recruitment and the leading job site in the Middle East and North Africa Bayt.com will be working together to help Saudi job-seekers find their perfect job. The two companies will be targeting small and medium businesses to match candidates with positions based on their level of education. The collaboration aims to support both companies’ efforts to make a sustainable...
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Current CEO of homegate.ch, Axel Konjack, is moving on. He will finish in his role as CEO of the leading property vertical in Switzerland in October and will move to Ringier as COO of International Marketplaces. Axel Konjack (LinkedIn profile) joined homegate.ch in 2015. Previously, he was the Managing Director of the city portal hamburg.de, in which Axel Springer has a majority holding. Between 2006...
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Former AVendreALouer director, Stéphane Anfosso has been appointed as the deputy director of Figaro Classifieds in France’s property vertical at Immobilier.Figaro.fr. Anfosso (LinkedIn profile) has also been tasked with driving growth at Figaro’s other three real estate verticals: luxury property site Propriétés Le Figaro, property developer site Explorimmo Neuf, and general real estate site Explorimmo. He’ll be responsible for three key areas: sales, marketing, and technology; with the goal of growing...
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Axel Springer-owned property vertical SeLoger has become the first real estate site in France to launch an AI-based algorithm for property suggestion. Chief data officer Florent Guiocheau says this marks the first step in a new SeLoger strategy designed to inject AI into all functions of the site.
Naspers-owned OLX Pakistan has appointed Mirza Zaki Baig to spearhead its newly-launched digital sales department. In his new role as digital sales manager, Baig is tasked with selling advertising space on the marketplace. Mass communication-graduate Baig (LinkedIn profile) has 15 years of experience in media sales. He was previously responsible for business development at jobs site Rozee.pk. He’s also held positions at internet firm HamariWeb, sports news site...
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Aukro.cz, the Czech Republic’s leading auction marketplace for new and used goods, has appointed Lumír Kunz as its new CEO. Kunz (LinkedIn profile) replaces David Vychytil (LinkedIn profile), who served as CEO for the second time since the beginning of the year. He was previously appointed to the position in 2011. We reported on it here. Vychytil has now returned to NetDirect, one of the largest providers of e-shop software...
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Indeed, the No. 1 job search destination in multiple countries, has announced plans to add as many as 3,000 jobs in Austin, Texas, over the next several years; positioning it among that city’s largest tech employers. The expansion includes two new office developments totaling more than 615,000-square-feet, including the top 10 floors of Block 71 at 6th and Lavaca Street and the full Domain Tower in...
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Allegro has named Francois Nuyts as the new CEO of Allegro.pl, the largest marketplace for new and used goods in Poland. Nuyts (LinkedIn profile) will replace Przemysław Budkowski (LinkedIn profile), who resigned after seven years on the CEO position to pursue other professional goals. His appointment will be effective from August 1. He joins Allegro from Amazon, where he had managed the company operations in...
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Lu joined the company last January to lead Baidu’s AI efforts. Before that, Andrew Ng, a leading figure in the world of artificial intelligence, left Baidu after serving as chief scientist, reportedly because of a rift with CEO Robin Li.
Flurin Müller, former co-founder of the Swiss recruiting startup BuddyBroker, has joined Locatee as Head of Product and Angel Investor. Müller, together with Patrick Mollet, founded BuddyBroker and its smart employee referral system Eqipia in 2013. The startup was subsequently acquired by XING in 2016 for CHF 3.2 million. Müller (LinkedIn profile) remained at XING E-Recruiting until the end of 2017 where he was responsible...
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