14 Recruiting Hacks to Find the Best Job Candidates | AllBusiness.com

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Sifting through piles of job applications and resumes can be tedious work. However, you can take advantage of certain recruiting “hacks” to find the best job candidates, people who are likely to be a great fit right from the start.

To learn more about methods that work, 14 successful entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) shared their favorite recruiting tips for finding the best of the best.

What’s your best recruiting “hack” for finding the most qualified candidates for your business? Why does this work so well?

6 Marketing Translation Tips to Grow a Small Business | AllBusiness.com

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When it comes to the global market, many people tend to think of it as a playground for big businesses. But that doesn’t have to be the case—it’s now easier than ever for small businesses to do business abroad, thanks to the possibilities of digital marketing and international logistics.

But if you want your business to truly reach a global audience, you need to speak to them on their terms; English alone isn’t going to cut it. Research shows that 76% of consumers around the world prefer to buy products with information in their own language.

What this means is that any business looking to break into a foreign market needs to consider marketing translation a part of their expansion strategy. If you look at successful businesses with a solid global reach, you’ll find that they make the effort to reach out to customers in their native language in many areas, including product design, advertising, and customer service.

Seattle Couple Indicted on COVID Business Loan Fraud Charges | Small Business Trends

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A couple from Seattle have been indicted for carrying out over $1m in fraud on Covid-19 relief programs.

Brian Sparks, 40, and Autumn Luna, 22, are charged in a 16-count indictment with defrauding the Washington State Employment Security Division (ESD) of more than $500,000 in benefits and defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) of approximately $520,000.

As well as fraudulently claiming unemployment benefits with false bank accounts, the couple used stole identities to apply for loans, including Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

The SBA paid the couple around $520,000 in Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) proceeds.

Nintendo Is Sponsoring a Smash Bros Esports Series | Digital Trends

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In a somewhat historic first, Nintendo is partnering with Panda Global on an officially licensed series of Super Smash Bros. esports tournaments. There will be official tournaments for Super Smash Bros Ultimate and, shockingly, GameCube classic Super Smash Bros. Melee.

The relationship between Nintendo and the Smash Bros competitive community has never been a smooth one. Throughout the years, the company has called for many cease and desist orders against various community events, giving it a bad image in the eyes of the tournament faithful. That rocky past makes this inaugural licensed tournament circuit even more monumental.

Paramount+ Adds 1 Million Subscribers In Single Week | Digital Trends

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Looks like the streaming adage of “new content drives subscribers” is true. Paramount+ announced that it’s had its “most successful week ever,” adding more than 1 million new subscribers, as well as setting a new record for total sign-ups since the streaming service rebranded from CBS All Access in March 2021.

While owner ViacomCBS doesn’t break out specific subscription numbers, we can put things into a little bit of context. Globally, ViacomCBS added 4.3 million subscribers in the third quarter of 2021 for a total of 47 million. So more than a million new subscribers in a single week is a big deal.

Targeting New Investors: 3 Must-Have Features of Your Investor Relations Strategy | The Startup Magazine

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Targeting new investors is your priority — whether your company is gearing up for an IPO or it’s already on the market. And you wouldn’t be alone. Out of nearly 600 Investor Relations (IR) professionals surveyed by IR Magazine, nearly all place investor targeting first in their list of goals.

How can you stand out from the crowd when most of your competitors are actively pursuing leads right along with you? Find the answer in the three tips below.

Covid-19: Pfizer to allow developing nations to make its treatment pill | BBC News

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US drug company Pfizer has penned a deal to allow its experimental Covid-19 treatment pill to be made and sold in 95 developing nations.

The deal with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool not-for-profit could make the treatment available to 53% of the world’s population.

But it excludes several countries that have had large Covid-19 outbreaks, including Brazil.

Pfizer says the pill lessens the risk of severe disease in vulnerable adults.

Amazon to pay $500,000 for not sharing Covid data | BBC News

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Amazon has reached a legal settlement in California over claims it failed to adequately inform its warehouse workers about Covid-19 cases in the workplace.

California’s attorney general said workers had been left “terrified and powerless”.

The delivery giant will pay $500,000 but did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing on the settlement.

Amazon said the law did not require it to share total numbers of cases with staff, but it had now started to do so.

What Is Imax Enhanced, and Should You Care? | WIRED

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DISNEY+ TODAY ADDED a new way to watch 13 of its biggest Marvel titles: Imax Enhanced. This new viewing mode on the platform features a larger picture, along with a standard for better image picture and sound, similar to Dolby Vision or Dolby Atmos. Fortunately, you can get some benefits of this new standard on most existing TVs.

Imax Enhanced, like most of the labels on the side of your TV’s box, is actually a complex set of video and audio standards. These help studios format their movies for distribution to ensure the highest quality (at least according to whichever standard they choose). Most of the time, this process happens without viewers needing to know much except for checking for compatibility, like making sure your soundbar supports Dolby Atmos to hear audio mixed in that standard

How much money can crypto gaming absorb in the near term? | TechCrunch

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Hello and happy weekend! Today we’re talking insurtech, SPACs and how well direct listings can manage the IPO pricing question. But first, crypto.

The crypto beat was busy this week, with Coinbase earnings giving us a good look into just how busy trading activity was for the asset class in the third quarter. If you recall Robinhood’s earnings, what Coinbase had on offer won’t prove a surprise. After the American equity investment platform’s crypto revenues fell sharply, Coinbase also posted declines in its aggregate trading volumes and revenues compared to the second quarter of the year.