{"id":1830,"date":"2019-03-13T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2019-03-13T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:23:18","slug":"zensourcer-raises-9-million-for-candidate-recruitment-platform-rebrands-as-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/zensourcer-raises-9-million-for-candidate-recruitment-platform-rebrands-as-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"ZenSourcer raises $9 million for candidate recruitment platform, rebrands as Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Kyle Wiggers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019d think technology would make finding the right job candidates easier than before, and it has to a degree. According to a report published by Clutch, 58 percent of hires say their last job search lasted two months or less. But things don\u2019t always go that smoothly. According to CareerBuilder, close to half of all hiring managers it recently surveyed weren\u2019t able to fill roles due to \u201ca lack of qualified talent,\u201d and roughly three-quarters (72.8 percent) said they struggled to find \u201crelevant\u201d matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gem\u2019s hoping to reverse this trend with an end-to-end, cloud-hosted recruiting platform it believes is well-positioned for growth. The San Francisco startup formerly known as ZenSourcer today announced that it has raised $9 million in a series A funding round led by Accel, bringing its total venture capital raised to $11 million, according to Crunchbase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Full Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/03\/12\/zensourcer-raises-9-million-for-candidate-recruitment-platform-rebrands-as-gem\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/03\/12\/zensourcer-raises-9-million-for-candidate-recruitment-platform-rebrands-as-gem\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kyle Wiggers You\u2019d think technology would make finding the right job candidates easier than before, and it has to a degree. According to a report published by Clutch, 58 percent of hires say their last job search lasted two months or less. But things don\u2019t always go that smoothly. According to CareerBuilder, close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[470],"tags":[575],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups","tag-zensourcer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/zensourcer.png?fit=578%2C303&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-tw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2207,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/higher-ed-element451-secures-1-million-in-seed-financing-from-cofounders-capital\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830,"position":0},"title":"Higher Ed, Element451, Secures $1 Million in Seed Financing from Cofounders Capital","author":"admin","date":"October 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Element451 is closer to its vision of making advanced recruiting technology accessible to more colleges thanks to a $1 million seed round investment from tech venture fund Cofounders Capital. 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