As migration and commute become more accessible, diversity is slowly coming to the forefront of corporate discussion as a major problem for many industries. According to CNBC, 64% of workers in entry-level positions were white, with 85% of executive positions also being held by Caucasian employees in 2020. Subsequently, support…
How Skillate is facilitating Inclusiveness in Recruitment with AI 50% of all hiring is a failure. Sounds impossible, isn’t it? In a process involving experts with years of know-how of recruiting, as well as hiring managers and interviewers with decades of industry experience, it is unthinkable that the success…
According to the recent LinkedIn Future of Recruitment survey, 47% of recruitment professionals believe that there will be a cut in their company's recruitment budget in the coming year. Most also believe that recruitment-related travels or events would be significantly affected by the current global pandemic. Though a significant proportion…
The American Psychological Association estimates that more than $500 billion is siphoned off from the U.S. economy because of workplace stress, and 550 million workdays are lost each year due to the job pressure. If organizations focus on Professional Intelligence (PI), work stress can be drastically reduced if not…
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are personal and should not be attributed to my current or past employers. "Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink."Samuel Taylor Coleridge must-have tech recruiters on his mind when he wrote these lines for “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” It is perceived…
The term data analytics encompasses scientific techniques for analyzing raw data to develop useful insights and solutions. As raw and accumulating data can be found in any sizeable business setting, data analytics has a near-infinite number of applications across the world’s industries. In the field of HR, resume parsing…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring about changes in hiring processes and patterns worldwide. And with no end to the pandemic in sight, these patterns and processes are here to stay for long. Therefore, let’s look at how changes in hiring due to Covid-19 pandemic are affecting companies and…
"It’s a Partnership: How the TA team needs to hire with speed and work as a partner with business, to attract the right startup candidate" Talent Acquisition (TA) as a function has evolved in startups today. Hiring the right “WHO” has become as important as raising the next round…
Whether you operate as a small-scale venture or an international company with multiple offices around the world, hiring and onboarding new talent can be challenging. HR managers and interviewers are often misunderstood in what they do in regards to processing and selecting viable resumes for available positions. According to Small…
Let us start with definitions. Diversity is being invited to the party and Inclusion is being asked to dance. We spend one day annually on IWD (8th March) discussing how far we are from the above goals. The issue of gender inequality is so prevalent that we've actually had to…
