Before assuming that a candidate won’t fit with a culture because of signs of formality like “Sir” / Ma’am”, evaluate the true culture fit..

Current career.place data shows averages of less than 5% of candidates from traditional job boards have disabilities, though according to...

Minimum ‘must have’ requirements are those skills, knowledge, experiences, traits, and abilities that candidates must have in order to do...

Showcasing diversity during interviews is fantastic, but it must be authentic diversity, full of people relevant to the experience

This is a form of ageism – leaving out applicants with more years to accumulate more experience.

The hiring process is where diversity starts, and the description of the job (i.e. requirements, tasks, summary, etc.) ALL contribute to...

The social constructs of what it is to have a female or male brain (i.e. to act like a man or a woman) result in inaccurate biases for...

Inclusion is not as hard as many think - adding creativity to your inclusion efforts break down barriers a lot quicker than most other...

Specifically, we advise organizations to use diverse teams when evaluating candidate responses to smooth out any lurking biases...

When my co-founder and I started career.place, we did what many entrepreneurs do (because career.place wasn’t built yet), we surrounded...

Unfortunately for many, life-long implicit biases over-shadow the strengths, capabilities and skills in making hiring decisions.

Mix in Data to drive diversity and inclusive hiring practices

Let’s start with the good news. While plenty of companies made the news in 2018 for all the wrong reasons when it came to diversity and...

Resume and bios are just long enough to feed assumptions without accurately representing the individual...Ms. Dobbins takes this heads on...

Listen to Melissa Dobbins, CEO of Career.Place, talk about diversity and bias in the workplace (as well as Star Wars vs. Star Trek) with...

I have been pregnant while working – twice. In each case I managed a team of product managers in a ‘small-to-mid sized’ software company....

Confession time: I’m grumpy.(1) Now, I come by it naturally. My dad is also grumpy.(2) Which makes our conversations pretty funny when we...

It all started with a dream…. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by...

Imagine moving to a foreign country, with little notice, and were told that you would have to get a job in three months. What, and more...

Additionally, this relationship is particularly strong for sales positions(1) – there is a substantial relationship between height and...