According to Dow Jones Venture Wire, Venture investing in HR and recruitment software this year will surpass the all-time high of $859 million that was set in 2000.
\nFor the first half of 2015, $811.6 million was invested in these startups by VC investors as compared with $569.8 million for all of 2014 and $233.6 million last year.
\nMajor deals include SmartRecruiters Inc., Workday and HireVue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to Dow Jones Venture Wire, Venture investing in HR and recruitment software this year will surpass the all-time high of $859 million that was set in 2000. For the first half of 2015, $811.6 million was invested in these startups by VC investors as compared with $569.8 million for all of 2014 and $233.6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-board-news","tag-dow-jones","tag-hirevue","tag-workday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-8i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3262,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/best-20-software-tools-for-recruiters\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":0},"title":"Best 20 Software Tools for Recruiters","author":"Robert Smith","date":"December 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Recruitment is an ever-evolving field, and staying ahead of the competition requires leveraging the best software tools available. 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