Beyond Bias

Beyond bias: Bringing behavioral science to hiring decisions

One bread-and-butter HR function—talent acquisition—has seen an explosion in tech tools designed to help source, recruit, and hire the right people faster. But too often, either the human factor gets in the way of sound decision-making or the technology itself lets biases creep in. Join us as our guest, Kate Glazebook, CEO and co-founder of Applied, discusses the many, often surprising, ways bias keeps organizations from making the best hiring decisions and how behavioral science is helping them battle back.

How are changing social norms and workforce demographics impacted current hiring practices, including AI?

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Accessing talent: It’s more than acquisition

Today’s world of changing jobs and skills, organizations have an opportunity to take a fresh look at how they approach talent acquisition, exploring new approaches to determining what talent they need—and where and how to find it.

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Status, fear, and solitude

​Why is workplace gender equality still so difficult to achieve? Much of the answer may lie in an unexpected place: how traditional masculinity keeps men tied to the strenuous expectations of many organizational cultures.

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