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...
Gabe Gurman
Mar 6, 20243 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
Dec 18, 20183 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
Nov 19, 20184 min read
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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...
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Nov 9, 20182 min read
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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,...
Alexandra Desmond
Oct 22, 20184 min read
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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..
Melissa Dobbins
Oct 16, 20183 min read
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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...
Alexandra Desmond
Oct 15, 20184 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
Jun 18, 20182 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
Jun 4, 20185 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
May 30, 20182 min read
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Pilots! Personalization! Engagement!
#careerplace #careerplace #pilotprograms #humanresources #hr #hrmanager #job
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May 23, 20181 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
May 22, 20182 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
May 14, 20186 min read
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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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Apr 9, 20181 min read
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Pricing is revealed (and more)!
#nobias #careerplace #assessments
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Mar 14, 20181 min read
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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...
Melissa Dobbins
Feb 13, 20184 min read
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Partnerships and more!
#careerplace #iCIMS #nobias
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Feb 7, 20181 min read
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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
Melissa Dobbins
Jan 16, 20185 min read
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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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Oct 18, 20171 min read
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