I recently asked my Facebook friends, many of whom are in staffing, if they noticed that leaders in recruiting are disproportionately male. I explained that what I had experienced wasn’t that there were necessarily more men in recruiting leadership roles…
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What We Should Take Away From Amazon’s Embedding Bias in Its Algorithm and Stopping the Project
A while ago I wrote an article warning recruiters about embedding their bias in their selection algorithms. The problem, as I described, is we all have a bias, usually unconscious. Just look around you right now at your department. Is…
Don’t Embed Your Bias in Your Algorithm
AI, algorithms, and machine learning are the buzzwords in recruitment at the moment. Although many don’t really know what they entail, everybody wants them. But because of a lack of understanding the true nature of what we are building and…
Greenhouse Raises $50 Million, Touts Diversity Offering
Greenhouse, a popular applicant tracking solution, joined a growing number of its peers raising money lately. Hired, for example, just raised $30 million. Phenom People recently raised $22 million. I could go on, but the gist is recruitment remains hot…
Why Recruiting Professionals Should Care About These 5 Groups That Are Revolutionizing Diversity Recruiting
Unfortunately, the flippant use of the word “diversity” has caused it to lose potency in important hiring conversations when speaking with high-level managers like owners, CEOs, and board members. We have done the industry a great disservice by diminishing the…
Our Autism at Work Program: Five Years Later
Looking back five years ago, Apple was releasing the iPhone 5, selfies, and emojis were introduced to pop culture, and Twitter announced its IPO. During the same time we at SAP launched our groundbreaking Autism at Work program, with a goal of integrating people…
Dice Survey on Tech Industry Finds Discrimination, Bias, Ageism Are Still Big Problems
This shouldn’t come as any great surprise: Dice’s new Diversity and Inclusion Report 2018 finds that discrimination and bias are still major problems in the tech industry, particularly as they relate to gender. The Dice report surveyed nearly 4,000 technology…
Need Women Applicants? A List of the Targeted Information That Triggers Applications
Learn About the 25+ Information Areas That Excite Women to Apply In last week’s ERE.net article entitled “Need Women Applicants? Understand Why Micro-Targeting Women Triggers More To Apply,” I highlighted some success stories and the many reasons and benefits from…
On Heels of Glassdoor’s $1.2 Billion Sale, Fairygodboss Raises $3 Million
Life is pretty good for the anonymous employee review business. In fact, Glassdoor can now give 1.2 billion reasons why it’s good to be in the ratings space. A such, it’s no surprise to see others hoping to cash in…
Need Women Applicants? Why Micro-targeting Women Triggers More to Apply
Understanding Why Providing “the Right Information” Causes Women to Apply Let’s get right to the point. HR is way too often risk averse, it is not transparent, and withholds valuable information that would cause many more women applicants to apply…
Direct From Women in Tech: Here’s How to Attract and Retain Us
More than half of U.S.-based women in tech say their ideas are ignored in meetings until a man repeats them. Are you kidding me? More than half also say they’re left out of professional/social events and are often assigned low-level…
3 Drastic Ways to Improve Diversity Hiring
I was on a Fortune 250 company’s website recently and clicked over to its careers page. A career talent-acquisition professional, I’m always curious to see what the company’s career page looks like and how it compares with the rest of…
This Big Fish Swims Fast to Bring ‘Experience of a Lifetime’ to Vail Resorts
David Reed is the VP of global talent at Vail Resorts, the premier mountain resort company with a simple mission: “Experience of a Lifetime.” That provides a great platform for a premier employment brand — but that doesn’t make it…
You Have a Choice: Diversity and Inclusion Doormat, or Change Agent
Last year was a milestone for underrepresented groups across industries when it comes to diversity, inclusion, and the flurry of “me too” stories that were told to the world. Susan Crowler, Ellen Pao, and Salma Hayek, to name a few….
How Great Employer Branding Answers the Question on Every Female Jobseeker’s Mind
Recently, my husband and I bought a new apartment. Before making our final decision, we looked at over 30 homes (much to our broker’s great chagrin). At each one, my husband zoned in on the quantitative metrics (what is the…
Employers Aren’t All That Interested in Artificial Intelligence (Yet)
For all the talk and commentary dedicated to artificial intelligence in our industry, you’d think adoption and interest would be hockey-sticking to the moon. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. So says a new report by LinkedIn. According to the survey, only…
Werk Raises $2.9 Million to Improve Workplace Flexibility for Women
Werk, a job board platform focused on schedule flexibility, announced on August 4 that it closed its seed funding round, having raised $2.9 million. Female-run venture fund Rethink Impact led the round, joined by SoGal Ventures and Leah Busque. Previous…
Engineer’s Anti-Diversity Memo Gets Sharp Rebuke From Google
A political firestorm has erupted at Google over a 10-page memo by a software engineer challenging the company’s diversity efforts, declaring that biology and not society explains why there are so few women in tech and leadership. Posted internally last…
The Definitive Action Guide For Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of a two-part article covering action steps on how to minimize biases that negatively affect diverse recruiting. The first part of this article was published on June 26, 2017. It explained the two types of…
The Definitive Action Guide for Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 1 of 2)
There has been a great deal of recent coverage on unconscious biases. However, almost all of the attention has been on becoming aware of these unconscious biases. This is problematic because even data-driven Google could not prove that unconscious bias…