Social Recruiting, Wantedly Raises 30M Yen From Archetype And Others / TechCrunch Japan

Investors include angel investor, Shogo Kawada, who is a co-founder of DeNA and recently invests in many startups, Archetype, an incubator, and another individual investor. ...

Wantedly takes a form which encourages candidates to come by an office casually. According to the founder, since excellent people do not intend to change a job in many cases, recruiting pages of corporate web sites do not work well. Wantedly creates atmosphere different from usual recruiting pages, which enables to attract people who did not come to existing corporate recruiting pages. ...

TechCrunch Japan 4/24/2012 [jp]

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• Social recruiting is one of hot areas of social services recently. In the field, garbs recently fundraised 60 million yen from Nippon Venture Capital, while Social Recruiting raised seed money from Samurai Incubate in 2011.
• http://wantedly.com/