Implementing diversity & inclusion (D&I) in the workplace elevates your business to the next level. Reduce bias in your recruitment process, hire the candidate with the best matching competencies, thanks to a full D&I recruiting HRTech solution as add-on to your ATS.

The Zurich based HRTech innovator softfactors launched its latest addition to their softfactors recruiting suite ready for HRTechCongress in Amsterdam: a diversity & inclusion recruiter utilising a core screening engine purely focusing on the competencies of the candidates. No CV, no gender, no name, no age, no religion, no race – just the competencies and match to the job. True diversity & inclusion. (Download Whitepaper)

Are you taking D&I serious in recruiting?

Research by Forbes, Howard Business School and The Economist suggested that companies following a true D&I strategy have a number of direct business benefits e.g.

• Business growth
• Higher earnings & return on equity
• Increased sales revenue growth
• Better ability to serve clients

The benefits of D&I are clear – but to truly execute it, you have to rethink your recruiting process and tools. Still, most hiring process bursts with bias, as human beings interact  with other human beings. When we discuss bias, we typically think of the “obvious” sources of bias like gender, race and age, but many other unconscious biases influence the way we evaluate a candidate:

• School bias
• Beauty bias
• Affinity bias
• Conformity bias

The goal of diversity hiring is to identify and remove conscious and unconscious biases that could lead to hiring candidates based upon other criteria than the best matching competencies. This can best be achieved using an unbiased recruiting tool, but also needs awareness amongst recruiters and hiring managers.

How can an automated screening and assessment support your D&I recruiting process?

The new softfactors diversity recruiter module neutralises the candidate information to present the recruiter with only the information necessary to assess the candidates competencies and the match to the job in question. It offers multiple levels of D&I process depths with several D&I recruiting tools:

• D&I screening process
• D&I reports
• D&I assessment solution
• D&I candidate compare features

And the good news is: it works with any ATS (i.e. Workday or SuccesFactors) with an availble API. Come and visit softfactors at HRTechCongress in Amsterdam from October 22 – 24, 2017, Stand 527. And get a free D&I recruiter demo or trial version its cloud services.

Download a comprehensive, free whitepaper on D&I recruiting by Lucy Dubin, PhD, and Christer Balle here.

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