Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry
June 26-July 1, 2023:
• Removing potentially prejudicial applicant data: iHire introduces AI-powered Bias Breaker(tm);
• Expanding job opportunities: ex judicata launches to open additional employment paths for JDs;
• Revealing job seeker hassles: Dalia Hourly Recruiting Report finds several sources of frustration;
• Giving recruiters more insight: Datapeople raises $13M for its recruiting predictability platform;
• Uncovering human flaws: Study finds people are susceptible to GPT-3 created disinformation.
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Worldclass content & business-building connections – that’s what you can expect at TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, coming up in London on December 4-6. It is the only conference in Europe and the rest of the EMEA region that is designed for job board and talent technology company CEOs, their direct reports and rising stars and totally focused on advancing the bottom-line success of their enterprises. The information and insights and the contacts and relationships it provides will accelerate your sales, reinforce your brand and give you a sustainable competitive advantage in the market. So, don’t delay; register today to take advantage of Early Bird Discounts.
iHire’s Bias Breaker(tm) Feature Promotes Diversity Recruitment By Hiding Applicants’ Personal Details
iHire introduced its Bias Breaker™ feature, a diversity recruitment solution. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Bias Breaker hides job applicants’ personal details, such as names, dates, addresses, photos, and social media profile links, from recruiters to promote fair, unbiased hiring decisions. By removing information that could reveal a candidate’s age, gender, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristics, Bias Breaker empowers employers to evaluate candidates based on their skills and qualifications. As a result, organizations can expand their talent pools, diversify their workforces, and build more inclusive company cultures. “Whether conscious or unconscious, bias can lead hiring managers to overlook talented candidates and create inequities in the recruiting process,” said Lisa Shuster, iHire’s Chief People Officer. “Our new Bias Breaker feature aims to help employers hire the best fit for the job while furthering their DE&I initiatives.”
ex judicata: New Career Platform Launches to Help Lawyers Move Out of Law and into Business
Two veterans with extensive experience in the B2B and B2C legal marketplace launch an innovative career platform that promises to revolutionize the very essence of what it means to be a JD in the American workforce. ex judicata is a new career platform that aims to dramatically expand the versatility of a law degree. The robust website, job board, engaged community, and career transition resource center containing information, tools, experts, and inspiration; is designed specifically for attorneys who wish to leverage their JD skill set and transition to careers in business, not-for-profits, academia, and government. The ex judicata career platform comes at a time when attorney career dissatisfaction is at an all-time high. More than 13% of all registered lawyers, or 182,000 JDs in the US, are leaving law each year. At the same time, there is a hiring crisis in Corporate America, with unemployment consistently at historically low levels and 73% of companies struggling to hire enough employees.
The Reality of Hourly Recruiting, A Dalia Report
We surveyed 1,381 hourly and frontline job seekers between January and April 2023 to learn about their job search. The job seekers who completed the survey were seeking employment across a range of different industries: 61% of hourly job seekers say "finding the right jobs to apply to" is their biggest obstacle; 83.2% want to receive job alerts at least once a day; 54.3% of job seekers want to receive SMS job alerts; 62% listed finding jobs and lack of feedback as the hardest parts of getting a job; Intrusive questions and a lengthy job application are the biggest reasons job seekers stop applying.
Datapeople raises oversubscribed $13 million Series A to provide intelligence and control to recruiting teams
Datapeople, the SaaS recruiting predictability platform, today announced the completion of an oversubscribed $13 million Series A funding round. The round is co-led by GreatPoint Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners, with the participation of existing investors including First Round Capital, NextView Ventures and Uncork Capital as well as operator syndicates Gaingels and FOG Ventures. The funds will be used to scale Datapeople's go-to-market function and increase the delivery of new features and products. "Hiring teams today are under pressure to efficiently drive and sustain growth with talent, which is exactly where Datapeople is having a real impact with its customers," said David Resnekov, Associate Partner, GreatPoint Ventures. "We invested in Datapeople because they're solving a major problem by giving recruiting leaders intelligence and control throughout the hiring process, starting with the job description."
AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we create and evaluate information, and this is happening during an infodemic, which has been having marked effects on global health. Here, we evaluate whether recruited individuals can distinguish disinformation from accurate information, structured in the form of tweets, and determine whether a tweet is organic or synthetic, i.e., whether it has been written by a Twitter user or by the AI model GPT-3. The results of our preregistered study, including 697 participants, show that GPT-3 is a double-edge sword: In comparison with humans, it can produce accurate information that is easier to understand, but it can also produce more compelling disinformation. We also show that humans cannot distinguish between tweets generated by GPT-3 and written by real Twitter users. Starting from our results, we reflect on the dangers of AI for disinformation and on how information campaigns can be improved to benefit global health.
TAtech Europe: Worldclass Content & Business-Building Connections
Worldclass content & business-building connections – that’s what you can expect at TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, coming up in London on December 4-6. It is the only conference in Europe and the rest of the EMEA region that is designed for job board and talent technology company CEOs, their direct reports and rising stars and totally focused on advancing the bottom-line success of their enterprises. The information and insights and the contacts and relationships it provides will accelerate your sales, reinforce your brand and give you a sustainable competitive advantage in the market. Whether your company is a niche or general job board, aggregator, talent marketplace, online classifieds business, programmatic platform, conversational AI solution, chatbot, ATS, recruitment marketing solution, CRM platform, interviewing or assessment system or talent technology consultancy, this event will supercharge your company. So, don’t delay; register today to take advantage of Early Bird Discounts.