Audio-only social app Clubhouse, which exploded in Europe this year, has proven popular among European founders, VCs and journalists, with some of the biggest names in tech hosting regular panels, fireside chats and pitching contests. In Germany — which has the second highest number of downloads outside the US — Clubhouse has also provided a platform for digital-savvy politicians […]

Community-driven brand building is commonly heralded as best practice for 21st century companies. Growth at various unicorn marketplaces and creator platforms has been exponentially accelerated by the network effect of community participation and mutual value creation. Airbnb’s blockbuster $100bn IPO confirmed the potential rewards for ‘community-first’ companies, with Brian Chesky leading from the top as […]

Corona crisis only temporarily dampens the shortage of skilled workers Six out of ten companies expect the shortage of personnel to worsen in the future Berlin, December 16, 2020– The shortage of IT specialists has decreased under the impression of the Corona crisis, but is still at a high level. At the end of 2020, there […]

Women make up almost half of the global workforce; however, only 28% of them represent the IT industry (according to a recent Gartner report). A number of reasons have led to this shortfall: women are twice as likely to quit their tech jobs as compared to their male peers, IT is the second to last […]

It no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift.’ Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it allows its employees to work. In a blog post published Tuesday, the company says the “9-to-5 workday is dead” […]

Structured interviews are the only way to get an accurate handle on a candidate’s ability to succeed in the job. Photo from Getty Images. To say that Google hires smart people goes without saying. You can’t win the search engine wars and pave the road to fully autonomous driving without a high-capacity team at the ready. Today, over 62,000 Googlers […]

Today, businesses conduct most, if not all, their affairs online. Can recruiters do the same? Online recruitment opens doors to more candidates and streamlines processes. There are both advantages and disadvantages of online recruitment to keep in mind. What is online recruitment? What is internet recruitment? Online recruitment, or internet recruiting, is a way for […]

With the year drawing to a close, many companies are in the process of putting together their hiring strategy for 2021. Over the past 12 months, priorities have changed dramatically; every industry is facing its own individual recruiting challenges, whether that’s hiring freezes, inefficient ways of processing high volumes of applications or an increase in vacancies. What […]

In the 90s, it was the expansion of the internet, in the 2000s, the rise of mobile computing and in the 2010s, the emergence of cloud computing. But for the 2020s, it’s “deeptech” that’s set to drive technological change across the next decade and, according to a new report from the European Startups Project, Europe is investing […]

The European Commission today announced that one shareholder in various start-ups is. There are exactly 42, described by the Commission as “highly innovative”. The companies will receive 178 million euros from the European Innovation Council (EIC) fund to develop innovations in the areas of health, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and other areas and implement them on a larger scale. […]