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…
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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…
Building New On-ramps for Returning Women
You know that guy who won’t let you in when you’re trying to merge onto the highway? Well, that’s corporate America for returning women. Three million returners are behind the wheel, blinkers on, pedal to the metal, tuned-up, tuned-in, and…
‘Don’t Look Too Hot!’ — Powerful New Dad-Daughter Video From HP Makes Fun of Interview Advice
HP is celebrating Father’s Day early with a video mocking the frustrating and sexist advice females are given when preparing for an interview. The two-and-a-half minute piece ends with HP saying that it’s training all hiring managers to reduce unconscious bias….
Wonder Woman – Why Every Firm Needs to Hire One
The Wonder Woman movie has been a blockbuster success at the box office, at least in part because both the main character and the director are women. Giving women the director role on major film projects is, unfortunately, rare. However,…
Open Letter to the CEO and CHRO: You’re Disconnected On Talent Priorities.
Dear Mr/s CEO and CHRO, I needed to send you this important note after reading all those McKinsey and Gartner “What are the CEO’s priorities?” survey results for the last few years. You have also read and probably participated in them…
Diversity’s Revolving Door — With 2x the Turnover, a Diversity Retention Program Is Needed
Most firms have no idea that they have a revolving door that is bleeding diversity talent, because unexplainably, they don’t measure and report diversity turnover and the cost. But what if your executives knew that diversity turnover “was off the…
A New, 30-Second U.S. Marines Recruiting Video Comes With a Twist
The U.S. Marines have unveiled a recruiting video showing footage of a Marine as a kid walking down the school hall; later playing rugby; and then in intense battle in the military. It may be the first of its kind on national…
Predictive Analytics, Bias, and Interviewing
For centuries people have been captivated by the idea of predicting the future (and I’ll be offering my own predictions on the stage in a few days). Crystal ball gazers and fortune tellers all promised to be able to do this….