Removing Bias From Hiring with Melissa Dobbins

The Voice of Job Seekers

Removing bias from the hiring process is quite a task considering those who are still asking why. My guest this episode is Melissa Dobbins, founder, and CEO of career.place, whose purpose is to remove bias from hiring. She states on her website that she is “…radically reshaping the hiring process through the synthesis of science and technology…” Her goal is to show hiring companies how to remove bias from the hiring process.

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More about Melissa:

Through a SaaS-based offering, my company provides a fresh approach that is unbiased and focuses on what matters most when hiring talent. Career.Place removes bias from the hiring process by not relying on the resume as the beginning piece of the hiring equation. Instead, career.place’s solution asks a series of questions from salary desired to take assessments, allowing only those qualified to advance.

She has been in product management for many years including her last position as a vice president.

Here are highlights from our discussion:

• Melissa is influenced by her experience working with highly diverse successful teams and homogenous teams oblivious to bias
• In her experience, homogenous teams was a vacuum of creativity because everyone thought alike
• She says that diversity and inclusion positions and teams achieved a good start
• Removing bias from the hiring process will mean removing the identities of the individuals from the eyes of employers
• The focus for employers is to focus on what individuals can do and the requirements to do the job, and everyone is treated fairly
• We discuss racists vs. bias and how much of a challenge it is in the process – “No one wants to look in the mirror and think they are part of the problem.”
• Melissa says, “Bias is the human shortcut.”
• There needs to be more than blocking out the name on a resume to rid of bias in the hiring process

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