We found 10 tools to reduce racial bias…from job descriptions to resume screening to interviewing. The Pinpoint tool reads applicant data, then presents a redacted resume to the hiring manager using anonymous personal info. Smashfly. MORE

aoutwater : Sr Director of Marketing for ADP DataCloud Big Data & Analytics (tweets are my own), youth baseball coach, Kayaker/Backpacker, Go Jumbos. “ @HitachiVantara : Formerly @HDSCorp (Hitachi Data Systems). Data is changing the way we work. We are changing the way that data works.” Professional data geek. symantec : Helping companies, governments, and individuals secure their most important data wherever it lives. MORE

Research galore : Lever has just released their “Little Grey Book of Recruiting Benchmarks” which contains insights based on data across millions of candidates considered by 1,000 Lever customers. Here are just a few of their data points: the median time-to-hire for engineering is 38 days; for customer service it is 27 days. One possible explanation, per Glassdoor, is that one interview may not be sufficient to screen and qualify the candidate. MORE

These technologies leverage AI and predictive analytics to aggregate and analyze data about candidates’ skills and experience, then match them to job opportunities. HiringSolved : Uses artificial intelligence to automate candidate matching, increase diversity, reduce time to fill jobs, analyze the social web, and unlock the power of your ATS, CRM, and HRIS data. Candidate Screening and Experience. With the end of June just around the corner, so ends the first half of 2018. MORE

This is by generating interest, screening resumes, conducting interviews, and hiring employees. AI and Automation hiring tools can screen candidates, analyze data, enable virtual chat, etc. Some of the examples of these recruitment tools are SmashFly, Yello, Avature, etc. MORE

Faster Screening. Many large companies will simply screen samples of work, profiles on social networks, which allows you to quickly see the details you need without spending hours in front of a resume. The most convenient ones are SmashFly, Yello, Avature, Beamery, and Ascendify. MORE

The recruitment marketing platform Smashfly started off 2016 raising $22 million. Recruitment Platform SmashFly Raises $22 Million in Second Round of Funding. Entelo Raises $12 Million in Series B Funding to Bring Data-Driven Recruiting to the Enterprise. On-screen guidance startup WalkMe raised $50M led by Insight, now valued around $400M. Imbellus raises $4 million for better candidate screening. MORE

Data from your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) shows that 20 of them were referred (40%), 15 applied through job boards (30%), 12 were contacted through direct sourcing efforts (24%) and three came from career fairs (6%.) If they remain at the bottom of the distribution for a long time, experiment with other sources or rethink the way you screen candidates from career fairs. Also, decide whether you will only track hires or gather data on candidate sources too. MORE

Recruiting automation aims to make recruiting a faster and more data driven process, which means you can automate your simple tasks and get back to the highly strategic recruiting work. These companies leverage cutting-edge technology to aggregate and analyze data about candidates’ skills and experience then match them to job opportunities. Candidate Screening and Experience. Companies include: Smashfly, Beamery, Avature, PhenomPeople, Yello, Telemetry, and Ascendify. MORE

In this webinar Tracey Parsons and Erin Stevens talk you through the 5 elements that get your financial- and data-driven business case to “YES”, over and over. She’s also been a contributing writer at SmashFly, her own blog, Work it Daily, and Social Media Explorer. MORE

Data-Driven Recruitment. Data and Automation. Indeed Adds Automated Phone Screening to Job Applies. Background Screening: What It Is, What It’s Not. SmashFly Blog. Data, Metrics, Analytics: The Hierarchy of Knowledge. Effective CV Screening – Top Tips. MORE