Julio Orr, Founder of Happyer

03/12/20 • 68 min

Julio Orr is an Australian entrepreneur with Columbian roots with more than 15 years of experience in the recruitment industry.
After his first experience with an international recruitment firm in Shanghai, Julio moved to Hong Kong where he held multiple roles for other international firms for 7 years.
In 2015, Julio started his first venture by co-founding The G.R.A.C.E. Group. Inspired by this first experience, Julio then launched Canopy which later rebranded in 2020 as Happyer, a rich-media career platform helping candidates to get a real view into jobs and companies.Julio is also the founder of Morning Media, a Singapore-based employer branding and creative media house working with startups, SMEs and corporates in APAC.

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Grown in Asia - Julio Orr, Founder of Happyer

Transcript

Bertrand Théaud: 0:09
Hello. Hello everyone. So welcome to this new episode of Grown in Asia and very pleased today to have a new guest. Julio Orr is the founder of Happyer. So Happyer is a video-powered job platform. Correct? So far I'm right?
Julio Orr: 0:28
Yes, yes.
Bertrand Théaud: 0:29
Thank you Julio. Thank you for being with us today. And the first thing I will ask you is to tells us, you know, in a few words, who yo