Today is January 3, and perhaps you’re wondering why we haven’t published at least 9,765 articles — or even one — touting predictions for 2020. … Read more
Greater Inclusion Starts by Stopping These Two Things
The issues surrounding diversity in the workforce have been covered in depth. You know about them, and you know the benefits that your organization can … Read more
What Women Candidates Want From Recruiters
What we already know about recruiting women: it’s ineffective, insufficient, and often a dismal failure. We acknowledge there’s a problem. What we … Read more
How to Promote LGBTQ Equality in Your Recruitment Process
There’s an uncomfortable reality haunting us: we continue to live in a society where people are frequently discriminated against based on their sexual … Read more
Hiring for Culture Is Stupid
Culture is one of those “trends” in HR/recruiting that we just need to let die. It’s stupid. The whole idea behind it, although well intentioned, … Read more
Hiring Formerly Incarcerated: Shelley Winner Continues the Fight
Shelley Winner pleaded for a job at a big technology company, despite having a criminal record that got her red-flagged. It worked. Since then, she has … Read more
What’s in Your Funnel? Increasing Diversity Representation at the Executive Level
An effective diversity recruiting strategy isn’t only about which job boards you subscribe to or the candidate discovery/rediscovery tools you use. It’s … Read more
Does Sociology Hold the Secret To Diversity Hiring?
How can sociology — the study of social interactions, relationships, and patterns –be the key to helping you create a more diverse … Read more
Recruiting for Apollo
Getting to the moon, 50 years ago as of July 20, required an army of scientists, engineers, and technicians, recruited to work on developing technology and … Read more
Tactics to Achieving Your Diversity and Inclusion Goals
A very popular rallying cry for diversity and inclusion initiatives that leads the many blog posts on the topic comes from McKinsey, which found that … Read more
Embracing AI Techniques in Recruiting Could Help Women
There has been a lot of ink spilled on hiring processes that use AI for end-to-end recruiting that fall short by magnifying the biases inherent in the data … Read more
Exclusion by Design in Recruitment Advertising
Earlier this year Facebook stopped allowing American advertisers in key categories to show their messages only to people of a certain race, gender, or age … Read more
A Candidate Like No Other
In most workplaces. It’s still one size fits all in policies, processes, and tools. We no longer live in a data-poor world, but we continue to use … Read more
Seeking to Improve Diversity and Inclusion? Consider These Recommendations
Talent-acquisition professionals in any specialty ranging from university relations to sourcers to Candidate-experience directors are working hard to find … Read more
The First Step to Creating an Equitable Company Culture Is Asking the Right Questions
I recently asked my Facebook friends, many of whom are in staffing, if they noticed that leaders in recruiting are disproportionately male. I explained … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more