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5 Examples of Racial Bias in Hiring

Ongig

They include racial bias in job descriptions, candidate screening, interviewing, job offers, and background checks. Racial Bias in Job Descriptions. Racial bias in hiring starts with the job description. Even if it is unconscious, many companies have job descriptions with racial bias.

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Eight Killer Staffing Resolutions For 2012

Staffing Talk

For example, as 2012 dawns, some staffing firms are still struggling to work their way out of the recession — while others say business is booming. The trick is to combine high volume with high quality – something Chie says is a key focus for his firm moving into 2012. “We He is also looking to increase his speaking engagements. *

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How to Recruit & Retain Gen Z

Glassdoor for Employers

leveraging job application data and company reviews. And for a quick refresher, members of Gen Z were born between 1997 and 2012. Here’s what we found: Gen Zers are aspiring to work in tech — the majority of job applications from Gen Zers were for companies in the tech industry, followed by business services, finance and retail.

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10 Hiring Mistakes that Cost You Time & Money

Hundred5

TL;DR – Key Takeaways: Don’t write a job description before doing a task analysis for the role and figuring out what the new hire needs to do in their role. While we don’t have any more recent research, a 2012 study says that employees become fully productive after about eight months on the job.

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Should We Legislate Our Weight?

Staffing Talk

In some jobs weight may not make much of a difference. In others, clearly, weight can be such a crucial factor that is it part of a job description.” There are several states that require schools to screen students for body mass index, or BMI, even as they cut gym class and recess and after school sports.

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Digitizing Healthcare recruitment in 2020

Manatal

Back in 2012, a study conducted by the Georgetown university center predicted that healthcare providers in the U.S. One of the most efficient ways to implement recruitment software is by relying on AI solutions to automate the candidate screening process, especially for high-volume or high-turnover positions.

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9 Need-to-Know Recruitment News Stories – 21st September 2015

Social Talent

On the growth front, Patel said Hired’s revenue has been tripling year-over-year since it was founded in 2012 and is projected to reach a $100 million annualised run rate next year. Once all the videos come in, Lundkvist and von Matern screen them all to find the best 15 or so. I was really surprised by the creativity.”.