Nigerians, Africans Needed as Elon Musk's Twitter Begins Hiring Again

• The CEO at X, formerly called Twitter, Linda Yaccarino, has revealed that the company will begin recruitment again
• She said the company is focused on growth and wants to achieve that by getting more people to join
• The new CEO revealed that most advertisers who left the platform when Musk took over were returning

Following Elon Musk's purchase of X, formerly known as Twitter, the social media company cut over half its workforce.

However, all that is about to change as the new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, says the company has begun recruiting again.

Yaccarino, in an interview with CNBC on Thursday, August 10, 2023, said as she came in, the focus moved from cost-cutting to growth which entails recruiting.

Advertisers are returning to Twitter

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She revealed that X still needs to list any open positions on the company's webpage or LinkedIn page.

BusinessDay reports that Yaccarino said the company's operational run state is near to breaking even and that its relationship with advertisers, which ran into murky waters when Musk took over and announced a series of changes, was improving and that some of those who left were returning to the social media platform.

She said:

"We're a company that has gone from 8,000 people and has gone through an essential cost-discipline exercise to about 1,500 people, so it makes sense that there wouldn't be some type of impact of presence with these people."

She said that Musk gives her autonomy, and their roles are clear.

According to Yaccarino, Musk is working on accelerating the brand and working on the future. At the same time, she is responsible for the rest, running the company from partnerships to legal sales to finance.

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They said that their severance packages which the social media company signed in a contract with them upon recruitment, are yet to be paid.

Musk shocked many when he changed the company's name from Twitter to X, with X Corp as the Holding company, and announced that he intends to make it the Everything app similar to China's WeChat.

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Source: Legit.ng