Tag: recruiting
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Talent attraction: Why Maslow thinks your job ads suck
Are you a recruiter in a terrifyingly business park thirty minutes from the “trendy ” downtown center or city center? Getting when you crickets ’re trying to fill those vital developer roles in your company, knowing that software giants or exciting startups are constantly wooing talented developers? Struggling to attract candidates to your mid-sized “everytown”…
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Don’t blame AI for gender bias – blame the data
In early October, Reuters reported that Amazon — which emphasizes automation as a chief part of its brand –‘d fought its experimental automated recruiting tool. The reasonfor the resume-analyzing AI discriminated against girls by punishing their resumes. This reported malfunction doesn’t even mean that the machine was a sexist failure, nor does it state anything…
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Lost lessons from the invention of the interview
Among Thomas Alva Edison’s known inventions was the job interview. The magician of the first Menlo Park (New Jersey, not California) whose prodigious spree of innovation and entrepreneurship helped form the early 20th century along with the American economy, developed his own pre-employment test. Edison, a self-taught genius whose main inventions from the stock ticker…