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
- Dec 18, 2018
- 3 min
Reflections of 2018
Tis the season for reflection – the time when we look back at the past year and think about all the things we did (or didn’t) do… often while frantically wrapping that one last gift before the family gets home, or fighting the glitter that insists on covering every small crevice as it snows off the decorations (or is that just me?). I must admit, I am one of those people that starts out every year with crazy ambitious goals, some of which don’t make it to February, let alone
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Melissa Dobbins
- Nov 19, 2018
- 4 min
ROI in Hiring: How Do You Define Success?
Thinking carefully about what constitutes ROI for you is crucial if you want to measure and optimize the effectiveness of your hiring...
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- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
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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Alexandra Desmond
- Oct 22, 2018
- 4 min
The Future of Elections - Anonymity!
My alarm goes off playing the oldie - Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve. I slowly stretch and unravel myself from bed. Before I get up, I peruse the latest headlines on my phone. A reminder pops on my screen and reminds me that today is election day and gives me the address for my polling location. It also provides me an option to cast my vote virtually, if I can't make it into the polls. A lot of people are still dubious about virtual voting, but since they've implemented a
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Melissa Dobbins
- Oct 16, 2018
- 3 min
The best advice I ever received: “OWN IT”
I was embarrassed and uncomfortable and fidgeting a lot with the stained shirt. I had stopped enjoying myself - as all I could think about..
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Alexandra Desmond
- Oct 15, 2018
- 4 min
The OFCCP Will Soon Enforce Annual Affirmative Action Plan Verification—Are You Ready?
Have you been paying attention to the latest murmurs out of the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)? If you’re a talent acquisition or HR professional of a Federal contractor, you’ll want to pay attention to a recent directive—because if you’re not prepared for it, it could cost your company dearly. What is the OFCCP? It’s a government body that exists to ensure all Federal contractors adhere to nondiscriminatory hiring practices, incl
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Melissa Dobbins
- Jun 18, 2018
- 2 min
Cartoons with my kids: ponies, superheroes, genies, and Bias
As a parent of young girls, I watch a wide variety of colorful, educational, silly, and sometimes painful children’s television shows. I will admit, I have my favorites and I often voice my opinion when we select what to watch from the long list of Netflix options – my youngest is convinced my favorite tv show is The Magic School Bus. However, as a parent watching children’s shows, I have noticed something disturbing - and that's the way many shows portray boys vs. girls. In
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Melissa Dobbins
- Jun 4, 2018
- 5 min
Hiring Biases leaves great potential untapped. Would you have hired Steve Jobs?
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 importantly, how would you do? Now imagine you found that perfect job; it is just like job you have now, perfectly fitting your skills and talents. So, you apply. What would be the bias’s you would encounter? Will you be judged because of the country you’re from? Will your education be respected or even recognized in this new country? What ab
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Melissa Dobbins
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
Our Definition of Diversity
Early in my career I had the amazing experience of bringing valuable diversity to a team. I joined an all-male team of analysts focused on evaluating future potential of new technologies. However, the diversity I brought was not what you are thinking… it had nothing to do with the fact that I was the first woman on the team – it was a new way of seeing the world. The team was made up of scientists and engineers; all smart, logical, and with a knack for seeing the business pot
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- May 23, 2018
- 1 min
Pilots! Personalization! Engagement!
#careerplace #careerplace #pilotprograms #humanresources #hr #hrmanager #job
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Melissa Dobbins
- May 22, 2018
- 2 min
Know Thy Self…ish
We are stuck on what we want to be, or what we think we should be, at the expense of what we actually are...
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Melissa Dobbins
- May 14, 2018
- 6 min
Keep Your Candidates Engaged; STOP doing these 5 things
The “make it easy” approach to job applications - designed to encourage mass amounts of candidates to apply… while actually making the...
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Gabe Gurman
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Confessions of a Hiring Manager
How many great candidates did I trash due to this 6 second review? How many rock stars were lingering in that “no” pile that I never got...
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- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
DisruptHR NY to be Disrupted by Career.Place CEO
CEO chosen to speak at DisruptHR about Bias in the hiring process Career.Place, removing bias one hire at a time, announced today that its CEO will be speaking at DisruptHR in New York City on May 9, 2018. “I am excited to continue to educate HR Executives and Recruiters that bias can be removed from the hiring process,” said Melissa Dobbins, CEO. “To many companies are trying to find an easy fix and are throwing money at existing solutions that have not and will not remove b
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Melissa Dobbins
- Feb 13, 2018
- 4 min
Bias is a part of being human - but doesn’t have to be part of hiring
Did you give your perfect hire a gender, an age? Perhaps you even gave them a skin color, style, or accent? Don’t worry, this is normal...
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Melissa Dobbins
- Jan 16, 2018
- 5 min
Bad Questions Lead to Bad Hires
From figuring out the job requirements to crafting a really clear job ad to defining relevant qualifiers. How did you end up with a bad hire
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- Oct 18, 2017
- 1 min
Career.Place Launches Insightful Blog
Teaching how to remove bias from the workplace is #1 objective Career.Place, removing bias one hire at a time, announced today its first blog post, showcasing its desire to remove bias from the workplace as well as sharing insight into how career.place is changing the hiring process. “Every time I meet with someone and tell them that resumes are obsolete, they tell me that there is no other way to hire,” said Melissa Dobbins, career.place CEO. “My response? There is another w