
Career.Place Partners with AbilityJOBS to Offer Inclusive Hiring Class
Individuals with disabilities are biased against, and also excluded during the hiring process. Learn how to be inclusive for those wit...
Blaine Phelps
Jun 6, 20192 min read
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Career.Place and abilityJobs Partner to Support Disabled Job Applicants
Teamed with our solution, the opportunity for bias to occur during the hiring process is almost nil, allowing those with disabilities to...
Blaine Phelps
Jun 6, 20192 min read
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Tip of the Week!
Don’t touch… hair, clothes, bellies, wheelchairs, prosthetics, etc.
Melissa Dobbins
Jun 6, 20191 min read
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Pedigree vs. Potential: Should Alma Mater Influence Your Hiring Decisions?
Here’s an idea: why not let candidates prove whether they’ve got the right stuff—regardless of where they did or didn’t go to scho...
Melissa Dobbins
Jun 3, 20192 min read
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Tip of the week!
Don't judge a candidate if they have eye contact or not - especially if eye contact is not required to do the job!
Melissa Dobbins
May 30, 20191 min read
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Career.Place Granted Accreditation by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
SHRM Accreditation granted to career.place
Blaine Phelps
May 29, 20191 min read
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No Degree, No Way: Why Companies Need to Rethink Educational Requirements in Hiring
What’s important is what the candidate got out of their educational (or any other) experience, not the fact that they checked the box...
Melissa Dobbins
May 28, 20192 min read
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Tip of the week!
The ‘gender pay gap’ and other demographic differences in compensation is a well-known phenomenon. These gaps are not just unfair and bad...
Melissa Dobbins
May 23, 20191 min read
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Fairygodboss of the Week
Fairygodboss of the week - CEO Melissa Dobbins of Career.Place discusses what and why she does what she does.
Blaine Phelps
May 21, 20191 min read
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To pass or not to pass…that was the question
Specifically, we advise organizations to use diverse teams when evaluating candidate responses to smooth out any lurking biases...
Melissa Dobbins
May 20, 20193 min read
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Tip of the week!
“Where are you from?” While for the majority of jobs you should avoid the question (as it can lead to bias and liability), it does often....
Melissa Dobbins
May 16, 20191 min read
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You think compliance is what now?
Compliance is ensuring all applicants are fairly and equally evaluated for a position, independent of their demographics.
Melissa Dobbins
May 13, 20193 min read
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Tip of the week!
Consider this – how many people don’t see color, or race, or a disability? To say otherwise is...
Melissa Dobbins
May 9, 20191 min read
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Assessments - Choosing the Right Company Is Like Choosing the Right Candidate
The world of pre-employment assessments is confusing at best. There are hundreds of options measuring countless...
Melissa Dobbins
May 6, 20191 min read
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Candidate Experience & Audio Only Interviews
April, 2019 Newsletter 1. Boosting Candidate Experience Candidate attention is hard to capture and harder to retain. Without catchy...
Blaine Phelps
Apr 29, 20191 min read
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The Secret to Closing Pay Gaps Isn’t Raising Salaries
A one-time wage hike to establish pay equity won’t matter in the long run if bias continues to impact starting salaries, raises, and bonuses
Melissa Dobbins
Apr 29, 20192 min read
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