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“Financing for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises” interviewed SmartRecruiters Founder and CEO Jerome Ternynck about the business of SmartRecruiters, and what its’ Series A investment means for the future.

The conversation ranges from the business’s idea, product, and team, to the nature of funding – not only for SmartRecruiters – but also as advice for growing businesses everywhere.

Jerome Ternynck visited with Bryan Wempen and William Tincup to talk about revolutionizing the recruiting industry. Listen to it here:

On Jan. 18, SmartRecruiters announced a $5M Series A financing led by the Mayfield Fund, a top tier Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. We will use this money to make our product even more awesome.

This investment is a strong validation of our disruptive free SaaS model. It will allow us to continue to work toward making the most efficient recruiting website ever. SmartRecruiters has a simple goal: we want to make hiring easy; for you and for the millions of businesses that want to create jobs but are struggling to find good talent.

It’s an exciting time, and we are thrilled you are a part of it.

This week we introduce Mobile Career Sites for all customers. With 50% of internet traffic soon coming from mobile devices, it’s rather important to give people an easy access to jobs from a tiny mobile screen.

Dear Klout Star,

You’ve heard about this disturbing trend of discrimination against the unemployed, where people without a job basically don’t even get invited for interview because they’re perceived as not good enough.

Well, we surveyed recruiters, hiring managers, and HR professionals about it and the results are appalling!

• 82% confirm that “discrimination against the unemployed is a reality” (gasp!)

• 55% say they have “personally experienced resistance when presenting qualified yet unemployed candidates”

• 53% see unemployed job seekers as “unemployed for a reason” or “probably not qualified.”

This week, we released a new capability to share reviews for Job Boards.

As announced last week, when you post a job, we bring forward the Best Performing Job Boards. Now you will notice that we also surface Ratings and Reviews

Easy job posting

We’ve improved the job posting functionality so you can quickly create a job, preview it, and post it with one click to job boards, your company website, corporate Facebook page, free sites and social networks.

Job Manager, the WordPress Plugin

This week, we bring the power of SmartRecruiters to the 25 million plus users of WordPress.

Nowadays, almost every company website  has a “careers” page. However, building great Careers pages from scratch is challenging and often ends up with a manual process to publish jobs and collect applicants.

SmartRecruiters’ Job Manager plugin solves that problem by letting you:

• Build great careers page in your WordPress environment with full CSS flexibility
• Automate Job Posting straight from your SmartRecruiters software
• Candidate apply online and are consolidated in SmartRecruiters for easy tracking

This week we have released some security improvements and fixed some bugs. We also prepared for a cool feature coming up next week…