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An increasingly remote landscape means that hiring managers need to build resilience and adapt at pace to ensure they hire the best candidates for their company. With an increasing number of applications, this provides an excellent opportunity for companies to tap into an active and engaged talent pool. However, without a rigorous process in place … Read more

• Bias In Hiring

With the publishing of first the Gender Pay Gap and now the Ethnicity Pay Gap reports, it is possible to gain a better insight into the level of diversity and inclusion within companies in the UK. However, what these reports reveal to a greater extent is that there is a much bigger problem with equity; … Read more

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Understanding Gen Z Employment   The newest generation to be named were born between 1996-2010, following millennials. They are social media-fluent, use the Internet of Things (IoT) devices without fear and are interested in meaningful social change. To bring home the familiarity of technology for this generation, the iPhone launched in 2007 when the oldest of … Read more

• Tech In Hiring

When it comes to investing in hiring software, you may consider value, time-saving, and possibly customisation, to name a few. The reason these are weighed up is usually to calculate ROI, or Return on Investment. This is usually a financial measurement that helps to determine your investment versus profit. Predominantly, ROI focuses on cost, but … Read more

• Bias In Hiring

Bias is present in the majority of companies’ hiring processes, unconsciously for the most part. Aside from making the hiring process less fair, bias also hinders efficiency and stops you from hiring the best candidates. The current pandemic has forced companies to shift working and hiring online. This presents an opportunity to review hiring processes, … Read more

• Bias In Hiring

Diversity, inclusion and belonging might sound like buzzwords, but they are critical for a modern business to succeed especially during challenging times.  This was proven during the last global recession when research from Devah Pager showed that companies with fair hiring practices in place were twice as likely to survive. Her research showed that the percentage … Read more

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• Tech In Hiring

A brief history May 11th, 1997 marked one of the most reverberating pivot points in the advancement of AI and Superintelligence. The victory of IBM’s Deep Blue against the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov was a spectacle that many believed impossible. Kasparov was undisputed, first holding the title at the age of 22; Deep … Read more

• Bias In Hiring
• Tech In Hiring

Why be consistent Consistency throughout the hiring process can save time, make it easier to assess and compare candidates and it can facilitate fair hiring. Without consistency there is not a level playing field on which to assess and compare candidates. During assessments and interviews, candidates may not be given the same information, opportunities or … Read more

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• Tech In Hiring

The goal of any recruitment or hiring process should be to hire the best people for the job in the most efficient, accurate and fair way and with new technologies and software emerging, this is becoming easier to do. The companies that are the quickest to implement and adopt these new technologies will have a … Read more

• Tech In Hiring

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) develops more use cases for businesses, it is increasingly being used in the interviewing and assessment of candidates. It is important to understand and weigh up the pros and cons of any technology before using it, which raises the question as to whether AI will become the future of interviewing and replacing … Read more