

Melissa Dobbins
Aug 13, 20183 min read
Need to Bias an Interview? Try this!
Consider how those three little words “as a woman” change how people perceive and value the response to the question...
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Melissa Dobbins
Aug 6, 20186 min read
Time to Hire Sucks! Let's Fix It!
Worse still, an unnecessarily long hiring process can seriously damage your chances of hiring the best person for the job...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jul 30, 20183 min read
It’s a culture of “inclusion”, NOT “tolerance” – two tales from a pregnant woman
I have been pregnant while working – twice. In each case I managed a team of product managers in a ‘small-to-mid sized’ software company....
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Alexandra Desmond
Jul 24, 20183 min read
Does Your Referral Program Risk Compliance?
Let me start with a personal experience: I was really passionate about a specific companies mission and really wanted to work for them. I...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jul 16, 20183 min read
Get your bias off my novel!
Everyone needs an escape, sometimes daily, sometimes yearly – but something they can do to recharge from all the pressures and demands of...
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Jul 12, 20182 min read
Volunteers, AI Reporting, and Skills
1. Introducing Our Free Volunteer Offering Career.Place is proud to announce that we are now free to use for all volunteer positions. As...
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Jul 12, 20181 min read
Career.Place Offers Solution to Charities for Free
Charities can now find qualified volunteers using career.place’s hiring solution Career.Place, removing bias one hire at a time,...
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Jul 10, 20181 min read
Career.Place Introduction Webinar July 2018
Introduction Want to see how we can both eliminate Bias and enable full compliance in hiring? Join us on July 18th at 1pm EDT when we...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jul 10, 20183 min read
Is your hiring process open to those with disabilities?
Think about your current hiring process - from application to interview to offer. Maybe you’ve built in some timed assessments to put...
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Matthew Borneman
Jun 26, 20183 min read
Focusing on Soft Skills to Promote Hiring Diversity
Confession time: I’m grumpy.(1) Now, I come by it naturally. My dad is also grumpy.(2) Which makes our conversations pretty funny when we...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jun 18, 20182 min read
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...
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Alexandra Desmond
Jun 11, 20183 min read
Contrary to common belief, Affirmative Action is NOT about quotas
It all started with a dream…. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jun 7, 20181 min read
The Voice of Job Seekers Podcast: CEO Melissa Dobbins talks about removing bias from the hiring proc
Listen as Melissa Dobbins, CEO of Career.Place, gives her perspective on the hiring process and how Bias, which can easily be removed, is...
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Jun 5, 20181 min read
Career.Place Introduction Webinar June 2018
If you didn't make it - don't worry - you can watch it above or watch it here. Introduction Since launching career.place, we've been...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jun 5, 20181 min read
HRLatte Podcast: CEO Melissa Dobbins talks about bias in the workplace
Listen to Melissa Dobbins share her perspective on bias and why it needs to be removed from the hiring process on HR Latte. #Bias #NoBias...
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Melissa Dobbins
Jun 4, 20185 min read
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...
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Melissa Dobbins
May 30, 20182 min read
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...
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Melissa Dobbins
May 22, 20182 min read
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...
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Melissa Dobbins
May 14, 20186 min read
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...
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