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Welcome to the fifth iteration of Work in Progress, The Org’s toolkit for job seekers of every stage and style. 🧰🛠🪜

You may have stumbled upon layoffs.fyi, a crowdsourced tracker that has chronicled nearly 140,000 tech layoffs since March 2020. As uncertainty sweeps startupland, we wanted to create a new resource to help laid-off workers find their next startup gig. Enter: Stillhiring.fyi.

Launched last week, Stillhiring.fyi is The Org’s twist on Layoffs.fyi. It’s a live chart replete with 600 hiring companies and nearly 5,000 job openings. Scroll on for a preview of top employers on the site, plus:

• How startups can still raise VC $$ 🤑
• Are Euro-style vacation policies finally hitting U.S. shores?
• Why Americans are getting a pay cut ⏬
• Traits startup recruiters want to see 💓

🏢 Orgs of the Week

Putting a spotlight on high-growth startups and some of their coolest open roles. In honor of Stillhiring.fyi’s launch, here are three promising tech employers from the list.

Contentful

Latest funding: $175 million (Series D), July 2021

Key investors: Tiger Global Management, General Catalyst, Base10 Ventures, Benchmark

Pitch: A content management startup founded in 2013 with offices in Berlin, SF and Denver. Customers run the gamut from Equinox Fitness and Costa Coffee to the Eurovision Song Contest. Dozens of open roles spanning functions. Org chart | Open jobs

GitLab

Latest funding: October 2021 IPO ($3.8 billion market cap)

Pitch: Remote-first before the pandemic necessitated it, GitLab peddles a DevOps platform letting organizations collaborate around centralized code. Hiring marketing, customer service, finance, sales and engineering roles. Org chart | Open jobs

Course Hero

Latest funding: $380 million (Series C), December 2021

Key investors: Wellington Management, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, OMERS Growth Equity

Pitch: An edtech startup with over 80 million course-specific study resources, Course Hero claims five-plus years of profitability and recent acquisitions like CliffsNotes. Plentiful job postings, including campus reps and software engineers. Org chart | Open jobs

📎 Curriculum Vitae

Much like your resume, this section is the backbone upon which you can build your job search. Read the latest deep-dive articles by The Org’s team of journalists to stay informed and prepared for anything your career throws at you.

→ European Companies Offer Weeks Off for Vacation Every Year — Will U.S. Employers Follow Suit?

→ The Tech Slowdown is Here — But Startups Can Still Raise Cash, VCs Say

→ The 11 Coolest Startups and Tech Companies Hiring for Product Roles Right Now

→ 10 Top European ‘Digital Nomad’ Visas to Consider

💡 Additional Skill: Want to work for a startup? Here are the key traits recruiters are searching for.

📊 By the Numbers

*Numbers don’t lie. We comb workforce + career data to bring you a relevant infographic each week. *

Underwhelming wage growth: Pandemic job-hopping and a strong labor market helped U.S. workers command higher salaries, but fiery inflation has outpaced nominal wage growth for the last 14 months.

Source: Statista

📖 Recommended Reads

*Congrats, you’ve made it to the best part. Here, we scour the internet for the tastiest content morsels, so you don’t have to. *

→ Layoff headlines, begone! The tech talent market remains red-hot, at least for now. [The New York Times]

→ A Texas teen wanted an abortion, but she now has twins. Her story offers a glimpse of what much of the country would face if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer. [The Washington Post]

→ Amazon’s latest crisis: it could run out of people to hire in its U.S. warehouses by 2024, according to a leaked internal memo. [Recode]

→ Most fintechs have struggled to raise cash this year…unless they’re based in Latin America, new data shows. [TechCrunch]

→ Job postings are dwindling. Could workers’ newfound leverage be the next casualty? [Bloomberg]

📌 The Final Round

Thanks for joining Team WIP this week! Have suggestions, feedback or ideas for how to use the three pounds of heirloom tomatoes I recently procured from the farmer’s market?

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