To attract or not to attract great talent – 3 tips to avoid biasing job descriptions
While a rose by any other name still smells sweet, when it comes to jobs a name and description could be the difference between...
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Melissa Dobbins
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Surrounded by white men
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Melissa Dobbins
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Career.Place continues to make the hiring process easier by integrating with Slack™
Career.Place now delivers applicant activity to Human Resource channels Career.Place, removing bias one hire at a time, announced today its capability to integrate with Slack, a leading team and professional collaboration platform, improving time to hire and overall candidate experience. Career.Place’s product is already capable of integrating with leading ATS’s and job boards, making the integration of a leading collaboration app the next logical step. “Career.Place already
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Blaine Phelps
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Podcast - How to See Past Bias in the Workplace
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The Voice of Job Seekers Podcast: CEO Melissa Dobbins - Will technology be essential in removing bia
Listen as Melissa Dobbins, CEO of Career.Place, gives her perspective on the hiring process and the role of Artificial Intelligence in removing bias. The discussion covers how technology can remove bias, how human-influence can still affect bias in technology, and that, even with technology, a fair and consistent process must be implemented. Excited to listen? Click here. #NoBias #Bias #nobias #equal #anonymous #ai #technology #AIreporting
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