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4 Tips To Eliminate Job Description Gender Bias and Improve Your Hiring

Vervoe

Yet, an organization cannot achieve diversity if its job descriptions don’t set them up for success. Language significantly impacts whether or not a job seeker identifies with a role, which influences whether or not they apply — particularly for female job seekers. Gender-biased vs. gender-neutral job descriptions.

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Creative Candidate Sourcing Strategies for 2023

Hireserve

It was a simple but effective strategy – they asked The Daily Telegraph to organise a crossword competition and then approached the best contestants about a job. More than 80 years later, recruiters are still trying to come up with creative ways to source qualified leads. But first, what do we mean by candidate sourcing?

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4 Top Recruiting Strategies for 2019

Crelate

What also came out of 2018, was the beginnings of many trends for recruiting strategies in 2019. Let’s start the year by looking at some of the emerging industry trends facing executive search firms and hiring managers in 2019. While it has been said that a wide net catches many fish, 2019 is the year to improve your focus.

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THC Screening Banned in 1 State, 1 City

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Source: Shidlovski / Shutterstock. Nevada became the first state to ban THC preemployment drug screening. Governor Steve Sisolak signed AB 132 into law on June 12, 2019, prohibiting the denial of employment because of the presence of marijuana in a screening test taken by a prospective employee. New York City Started It.

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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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How to Get Started with Skills-Based Hiring

Linkedin Talent Blog

Update your job descriptions Skills-based job descriptions focus on responsibilities and the competencies a candidate should have to be successful in the role. Invite your hiring manager to a kickoff meeting to discuss the essential skills a candidate should already have and what can be learned on the job.

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Building a Diverse Engineering Team in 2022: The Beginner’s Guide

Recruiting Daily

Fortunately, DEI is increasingly becoming a priority for job seekers and, in a candidate-driven market, this means organizations now believe they must make serious progress in their DEI efforts to snag top talent. . A 2019 Gartner study found that diverse teams are 12% more productive than homogenous teams. According to the U.S.