The Asia Tech Podcast had a great conversation with Oswald Yeo, a co-founder and the CEO of Glints. Glints is a Southeast Asia-based recruitment platform that helps companies build successful teams with young talent. Its mission to help companies hire the right, young talent effectively and for young people to discover and develop careers they love. Some of the topics that Oswald and I covered: The biggest trend in HR Tech is remote hiring and remote working COVID did not initiate this trend, but definitely accelerated it Online learning and the rise of Glints Academy How the team of co-founders initially tried to balance university and their startup and both suffered The reactions of their families and friends to leaving Wharton, Stanford and Berkeley After coming home to a lot of fanfare, three years of near-death experiences The difficulty of finding the right business model and product-market fit The significant impact of COVID on the Glints business Learning about managing through a crisis Follow Michael Waitze and the Asia Tech Podcast here: Facebook – Michael Waitze Facebook – Asia Tech Podcast LinkedIn – Michael Waitze Twitter – Michael Waitze Asia Tech Podcast is powered by Podcast Network Asia. For more information on the shows and the network, visit Podcast Network Asia at their website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts, and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policy and position of Podcast Network Asia. Any content provided by the people on the podcast are of their own opinion, and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything.

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