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Pureprofile: Strategic Hiring
Pureprofile has added new senior product and tech roles
Source: GN — ASX:PPL Pureprofile
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening the sector executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 111.1 (Hot) (up 5.2 month-on-month), Oceania is at easing (-5.6pts) on signal share.
Pureprofile: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.3% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow; 3 tracked across 84 days.
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