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4 Fair Chance Hiring Laws that Affect Job Descriptions

Ongig

This helps to eliminate bias and helps you choose applicants based on how well they do in interviews, their experience and skills, and whether they will be an asset to the hiring team. Passed Date: August 21, 2014 Effective Date: December 17, 2014. Passed Date: February 2014 Effective Date: October 1, 2018.

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10 LGBTQIA+ Authors and Creators You Should Know About

PowerToFly

Additionally, Lex works with higher education institutions, nonprofits and businesses creating LGBTQIA+ curriculum and training, developing inclusive policy, producing educational resources, and providing feedback and action steps to address areas of growth (and for Lex’s business partners, they create marketing and campaign development plans).

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3 Difficult Diversity Lessons From Yelp, Airbnb, and Deloitte

Linkedin Talent Blog

When Yelp ran its numbers in 2014, it discovered that only 10% of its engineers were women, only 7% were Hispanic, and just 4% were black. One potential factor is that women might use different words in interviews (for example, they may be more likely to say ‘we’ than ‘I,’ diluting credit for their accomplishments). Everyone wins!

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4 Tips for Conducting Remote Interviews

SmartRecruiters

Telecommuting has been on the rise since the early 2000s with SHRM reporting that 68 percent of companies now offer remote work options, up from 54 percent in 2014. For many, the idea of remote interviewing can be daunting, as it’s common to rely on in-person meetings to get ‘a sense’ of a candidate. Prep the tech.

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10 Tips for Building and Managing Remote Teams

Hundred5

At Toggl, we’ve been honing the art of remote hiring and assembling a distributed team since 2014. A homework assignment is a task given to a candidate during the interview process. Wikimedia Foundation: a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content 2.

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

Social Talent

Candidate care is a major factor: 83% of global talent say a negative interview experience can change their mind about a role or a company they once liked. 77% say the interview is extremely or very important in making their final decision to accept or reject an offer. and Canadian job-seekers’ consideration of a job offer.

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Cultivating Inclusion: Brian Reaves on building a future workforce for all

Transformify - Recruiting

Beyond expanding our applicant pool, we’re working to ensure there are diverse interview panels in place, inclusive onboarding practices and equal opportunities for advancement. These partnerships have enabled nonprofits to bring technology education to 3.6 million underserved youth since 2014.