Market research evaluates and segments the worldwide developer population at 24.5 million. This number is estimated to reach 28.7 million in the upcoming years. Moreover, with the great migration, there is no dearth of candidates, but finding the right ones for you can still be an uphill task.
Traditionally, pre-employment assessments were manual, time-consuming, and often subjective. They lacked role-specific relevance, making it difficult to predict a candidate’s on-the-job performance.
Mercer Mettl is a comprehensive online skill assessment tool that helps organizations streamline the hiring process. This talent management tool offers assessments in various skills such as psychometrics, IT, data science, human resource, etc. Moreover, the platform also provides an upskilling portal for existing employees to enhance their agility and deploy the latest skills.
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Coding Simulators have been widely used as assessment question types for years to hire programmers. But they both have their set of limitations.
Normally, organizations or businesses would host or deploy data management services, application development services, virtual machines (VMs), etc. on their infrastructure either through their servers or through a hosting company that hosts services in their data centers. This method eventually started becoming expensive and was not proving to be reliable.
Soft skills are essential for any and all roles, especially if you're in a front-facing team. Soft, though by name might suggest something banal, are crucial for professional development and success.
iMocha has the world's largest skills assessment library, with over 2500 questions across various domains.
One of the biggest changes that the COVID-19 aftermath has led to is the acceleration of rapid technological advancements across industries. For IT professionals, especially, this has compelled them to use technology to reimagine their operations and leverage new tech innovations for facilitating better development and efficient business models, further increasing the importance of identifying the essential components of learning and development for IT employees.
Recently, iMocha raised $14 Million USD in Series A investment round. That meant a lot of things: we're headed in the right direction, we are product-fit, and most importantly, an additional responsibility of investor's trust and client's raised expectations, which iMocha has always valued and respected.
We are ecstatic, overjoyed, humbled to share exciting news with you today. Our series A round, led by Eight Roads Ventures wherein our existing investors, Upekkha and Better Capital also participated, has been a raging success, and we were able to raise $14 million USD in the round.
The year 2021 saw tremendous change and suffering — not only because of the pandemic but also due to heightened concerns over emerging trends in diversity and recruitment priorities. From the start of what turned out to be a year filled with crises and heroic responses, iMocha has put its best foot ahead to help the recruitment industry come to grips with what was happening and begin to define the new normal that we are all now living through.
