Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 19, 2023 | Recruitment
Recruitment marketplace JobKorea has unveiled an employer-review service for job applicants. According to the company, this will provide applicants with...
Jacopo Natali | January 19, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Seek Asia, which operates such recruitment marketplaces as JobStreet and JobsDB in Southeast Asia, notes a growing demand for tech talent in Singapore, despite...
Greg Spencer | January 18, 2023 | Recruitment
Hire Sales Talent has launched as an avenue for sales people to find work amid the recent wave of technology-sector layoffs. Since launching in November 2022, the...
Ben Salisbury | January 18, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Shift-worker recruitment platform Sona has acquired occupational mobile messaging app Yapster. Both companies are based in the U.K. Founded in 2015, Yapster offers...
Ben Salisbury | January 18, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Microsoft and Indian-based HR tech unicorn Darwinbox will collaborate to help global companies leverage “the right tools to succeed in the evolving world of work,”...
Ben Salisbury | January 17, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
U.K.-based recruitment company NGage Talent has acquired employee engagement, communication and shift-booking platform Ryalto. Ryalto focuses on candidate...
Ben Salisbury | January 17, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
U.K.-based Arctic Shores has raised £5.8 million ($7.0 million U.S.) in a Series B funding round to develop its psychometric skills assessment product. Proponents...
AIM Group | January 17, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
U.S.-based multinational financial services provider FMR LLC has reduced its stake in China-based recruitment marketplace operator Tongdao Liepin Group, Sina Corp...
Damian Shore | January 17, 2023 | Recruitment
Rectech startup OpGround, which is aiming to remove CVs from the recruitment process and automate the initial stage using artificial intelligence (AI), is planning...
Adegoke Seun | January 16, 2023 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Pan-African tech talent marketplace Gabeya, has secured a pre-series A equity investment from Tokyo-based venture capital company Inclusion Japan (ICJ) to drive...
Ben Salisbury | January 16, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Digital recruitment platform Gigged.ai has raised £1.6 million ($2.0 million U.S.) in a seed funding round that was led by Par Equity. TechStart Ventures and Nile...
Ben Salisbury | January 16, 2023 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Healthcare recruitment platform ShiftKey has closed on a $300 million funding round led by majority investor Lorient Capital, a healthcare-focused private...
Damian Shore | January 16, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Valencia-based rectech company Sesame has opened offices in Madrid and Barcelona, website RRHHDigital reports. “We wanted to be where things happen and be an...
Damian Shore | January 16, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Woki, a freelance platform for Spanish-speaking business experts, is partnering with Venezuela-based InterJuris Acelera to enable its experts to create their own...
AIM Group | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Amsterdam-based rectech company HirePort.nl has bagged €1 million ($1.1 million U.S.) in a seed funding round, according to the company. HirePort.nl announced the...
Ben Salisbury | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment
LinkedIn has introduced new features on its platform, including updates to job search, improved accessibility, post scheduling and content analytics. Search Engine...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Japan-based freelance-marketplace operator Coconala saw its revenue grow by 24% year over year to Y1.1 billion ($8.5 million U.S.) during the quarter ended on Nov....
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment
Barcelona-based NuWe is gamifying IT recruitment in an effort to make it easier for self-taught programmers to land jobs. Co-founded in 2019 by Carlos Ibáñez...
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Spain-based rechtech company HR Bot Factory has raised €1.0 million ($1.1 million U.S.) in a Series A funding round led by existing investor Dozen Investments,...
Ben Salisbury | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Freelance hiring platform The WorkGenius Group has acquired New York-based Agency WorX. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded by Alicia Fazio (LinkedIn...
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Madrid-based Shakers, a marketplace for IT professionals, is aiming to increase its revenue to €5 million ($5.4 million U.S.) this year, newspaper El Mundo...
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Revenue at Spain-based Connecting Visions, a marketplace for freelancers in such areas as finance, business intelligence, marketing, sales and talent management...
Alina Zaiets | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment
Enbek.kz, a Kazakhstan-based employment vertical, is launching a new service that makes job-specific recommendations for short-term online courses on the...
Greg Spencer | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
WilsonHCG, a global executive search and recruiting firm, has acquired Personify, a competitor specializing in healthcare and life-sciences recruitment, for...
Alina Zaiets | January 30, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Investment holding Kismet Capital Group has acquired more than 20% of the shares in recruitment vertical HeadHunter for $147 million U.S. "As a new shareholder, we...
Deb Stowe | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment
EJobs Romania saw employers post a record 420,000 new jobs on its site in 2022, the highest total in the last 20 years. With around 10,000 vacancies posted on...
Ben Salisbury | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
London-based rectech scale-up Beamery is to lay off 12% of staff just weeks after a new funding round gave it a unicorn valuation. Beamery provides an AI-powered...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
Japan-based MiraiWorks, which operates a marketplace for freelancers, has appointed Ryoji Watanabe as its chief information/digital officer (CIO/CDO). Watanabe has...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Global recruitment and staffing giant Recruit Holdings has completed its stock buyback program two months ahead of schedule. Recruit spent, as planned, Y150...
Patrick Kosmider | January 12, 2023 | Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Relio, a Switzerland-based fintech company, has raised CHF 3 million ($3.2 million U.S.) to launch a digital payment account for business customers. The startup...
