The Power of Completely Conscious Bias as Illustrated by … a Video Game?
Unconscious Bias. This conspicuous concept in the circles of Diversity argues that our bias-driven choices and actions are, in large...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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