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Networking, mentoring and career progression made easy...Guidance through your career is not something that is necessarily readily available to a lot of people. We’ve probably all heard stories about school career advisers giving the most absurd ‘advice’, and if our first exposure to some form of mentorship is going to be that bad, it only increases the need for good mentorship l...
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Apprenticeship startup WhiteHat raises $16m Series A led by Index Ventures, signs up 250 employers and prepares to expand its alternative to University. WhiteHat, a tech startup building an outstanding alternative to university through apprenticeships, has today announced a $16m fundraise and substantial growth, with over 250 employers including BP, Facebook, Salesforce, Publicis, Santander, Ka...
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miFuture - The Tech4Good startup that's created a better way of connecting young people with the world of work Being young and being told you need to start thinking about your career is a difficult position to be in. It is supposed to get easier the closer we come to actually embarking on said career, but often it doesn’t. We simultaneously find that there is somehow a vast sea of pote...
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Learning a new skill is an excellent exercise in self-improvement. The internet has now made it possible for anyone to learn just about anything that they put their mind to. There are a myriad of skills and knowledge out there, just waiting for you to take the initiative and look them up. Not only will learning new skills help you with your self-confidence and give you something positive to focus ...
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A social network that helps young people fulfil their potential by helping them with career advice and course selection has bagged a £275,000 seed round to boost growth and invest in app development.  Coursematch was launched in 2016 by Chris Worsey, 34, Edtech entrepreneur and former Parliamentary candidate, and Joe Perkins, 24, a computer science grad, after they met in a pub and tal...
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Building your team can be a tall order. Here, our careers marketplace partners Jobbio share just some of the challenges you’ll face on your noble quest for talent. (originally published here.)Competition Fatigued as we may be from hearing about the war for talent, it is a war nonetheless. In this current hiring climate, candidates have their pick of companies, so you need to ...
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Startacus (that's us) and Jobbio have recently joined forces to create a startup focused careers marketplace for the startup community. Via Startacus, employers (new to Jobbio) can post their first startup job for FREE and job seeking talent seeking employment within the startup community can also view and apply for a whole host of startup jobs. Here Jobbio share some handy t...
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We recently shared word on Jobbio Higher, a fab next-generation careers event organised by (as the name of the event suggests, global careers marketplace Jobbio). Now we are delighted to announce that Jobbio have raised an additional $10m in Series A funding to accelerate growth in UK & North America with the platform currently growing at a rate of 250,000 talent users a month.&...
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Powered by Jobbio, EXPAND London, the careers & tech networking event is back once again in the Capital on the evening of Thurs 9th March 17. Here's our preview... EXPAND London is where the UK’s leading tech companies come together to network with their peers and connect with exciting, relevant talent. With a mission to differentiate EXPAND from the traditional 'careers fair', EXPAND o...
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