Masterclass: Conquer Unconscious Bias In Talent Acquisition!
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Are you tired of missing out on great candidate due to Unconscious Bias?
The Masterclass: Conquer Unconscious Bias In Talent Acquisition! eLearning course provides simple solutions to this challenge facing talent acquisition professionals in today’s hyper-competitive, candidate-driven marketplace. It is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and executing your very own strategies to ensure you find and hire great candidates regardless of how they look or who they love.
You will be carefully guided through this strategic framework in a methodical, yet efficient, fashion. Whether it is…
· Deciding up-front what criteria you should be looking fo rin a candidate,
· Designing a recruiting process for each role you are working,
· or effectively evaluating candidate performance during and after the interview while keeping Unconscious Bias at bay.
What are you waiting for? Start Now!
Why Our Course Is Successful
· Real content from top, proven, successful recruiters
· Video updates (you own this course for life)
About You
You are looking to reduce uinconscious bias within your organization to ensure all qualified candiadtes are given equal opportunity to shine. Perhaps you are looking for software developers, maybe finance professionals, maybe technical sales people. No matter the vertical, we can help.
You have between 0 and 2 years of experience in the talent acquisition fucntion.
About Me
I have over almost two decades of experience in recruiting, interviewing, assessing and hiring top job candidates. I have successfully recruited and hired employees in a number of professions in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Japan.
I am also the author of the Lean Recruiting Toolkit (amazon), which has been read by top Talent Acquisition professionals around the world.
Also, I have verifiable testimonials from real clients on my LinkedIn profile – a rarity in my industry. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, trying craft beers, playing guitar poorly yet enthusiastically, and walking my dog, Bob.
It’s time to take Action!
We have designed this course so that you can take action. The course is broken down into bite sized videos, with practical action points for each one. You can then go back to each video at a later date to review – you own this course for life!
This course is designed for everyone with up to two years’ experience.
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Our method is simple, repeatable and broken down into manageable steps. This is a project-based course that will help you look good by making great hires quickly.
*Note: This is not a course on recruiting ‘hacks’ or other hiring shortcuts or tricks – these never work in the long term.
What We Cover
· A brief section on the theory of Unconscious Bias, where we help you define it, and prove to others it is a problem that needs to be addressed
· How to effectively communicate with Hiring Managers and candidates throughout the process.
· How to decide what criteria you are looking for in a candidate up front, thereby avoiding unconscious bias.
· How to deign a recruitign process fro each role you are workign on.
· How to equitable evaluate candidates during and after the recruitment process.
What You Get
· An instructor who really wants you to succeed and is here to answer your questions.
· A complete and thorough step-by-step guide on reducing unconscious bias in your organization.
What You’ll Need
· Internet access
· A laptop, tablet or computer
· A drive to learn new ways to recruit and hire
We believe in our course because the steps we have developed have made us extremely successful in the recruitment field. Just be willing to follow the steps, and follow it through to the end, and you will be successful in creating your very own stargies to Conquer Unconscious Bias.
What are you waiting for? Enroll with us today!
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1A Few Notes Before We StartVideo lesson
What You Will Learn in this course (go through itinerary - these are practical steps), Rating System, Feedback from students, Continuous improvement, completion cert
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2Download Free Book; The Lean Recruiting ToolkitVideo lesson
Download a free copy of my book, 'The Lean Recruiting Toolkit', in pdf form. Its course to keep. Feel free to share with friends adn colleagues.
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3What is Unconscious Bias?Video lesson
In this lesson, we attempt to come up with a universal definition of Unconscious Bias. After all, if you can't define it, you will not be able to stamp it out.
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4Emily, Greg, Lakisha and JamalVideo lesson
Does Unconscious Bias actually exists. In this lesson, we examine a double-blind study that proves it does. This is very handy when convincing colleagues in other areas of the business that Unconscious Bias needs to be addressed.
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5Why is Reducing Unconscious Bias Important?Video lesson
In this lesson, we discuss reasons for reducing Unconscious Bias, including both moral and commercial implications. We also take a hard look at the stats.
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6Why Decide Up Front?Video lesson
To avoid unconscios bias as much as possible, it is important to decide search criteria 'before' beginning the search. If not, we risk falling back on our gut feeling, and therefore perhaps our unconscious bias, when selecting candidates for interview.
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7The Fallacy Of 'Cultural Fit' & 'Gut Feeling'Video lesson
Cultural Fit and Gut Feeling have in the past (and still today) been used as key deciders in who gets hired. In this lesson, we prove that both forms of Unconscious Bias and promote a lack of diversity, hurting both job candiadtes and the employer.
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8Step 1: What Do You Need This Person To Do Every Day?Video lesson
What three meta activities does an employee need to do on a daily basis to do their job?
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9Step 2: What Background & Experience Does Ideal Candidate Need?Video lesson
Based on the three meta activities decided in the previous lesson, we now decide what three things we will look for in a candidate from skills, experience to education. Having really well defined criteria to search for in a candidate will prevent us from falling back on our 'gut feeling'.
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10How Does 'Process' Reduce Unconscious Bias?Video lesson
IF we have a well-designed process fro each type of hire, this will stop us from falling back on our gut feeling.
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11Signals and ProofVideo lesson
Sometimes candidate claims are slightly different than reality. In this lesson, we discuss the difference and how to get to the bottom of things.
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12Measuring Hard Skills Versus Soft SkillsVideo lesson
In this lessons, we suggest techniques for evaluating candidates' hard skills and soft skills.
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13Interviews: Decide Good Questions, and Good AnswersVideo lesson
We need to decide, in advance, what good questions and good answers look like for the interview. We can then company candidate repsonses against them during and after the interview.
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14Hiring Process ExamplesVideo lesson
Here we give examples of three separate hiirng processes for three separate mock roles.
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15Pro Tip: Create Alternative Person / Technology StepsVideo lesson
Alternate between techology and people steps in your recruitment process to ensure maximum candiate eganagement and buy-in.
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16Download: Candidate Evaluation FormVideo lesson
In this lesson, I explain to you how our Candidate Evaluation Form works. I also provide you with the download.
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17Example Candidate Evaluation FormVideo lesson
Here I show you an example of how to fill in the Candidate Evaluation form. I also provide my example as a download for you to keep.
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18AssessmentsVideo lesson
When administering online assessments, decide what your pass rate is before you start sending it out to job candidates.
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19InterviewsVideo lesson
Here I discuss how to evaluate candiadtes based on responses to set criteria. Again, decide Which Questions to Ask in advance and also decide what a correct answer should look like.
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20Reference ChecksVideo lesson
Reference checks are really another form of interview, but you are interviewing former employers rather than the candidate. Decide your questions in advance, around your three Signals, and also decide in advance what a good answer looks like.
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21Document 'Why' You Reject SomeoneVideo lesson
There are two main reasons to document rejections; legal, and also to check your own Unconscious Bias.
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22Create a Diversity & Inclusion HeaderVideo lesson
Creatign a solid Diveristy & Inclusion header will make all candaidtes feel welcome to apply, particularly in industries historically dominated by one specific trache of society. And put it at the top of your Job Ad so candidates know you mean what you say!
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23Reduce Gendered WordingVideo lesson
Here we look at a free Gender Decoding tool that has been around for a few years. Simply paste your job ad in, click the button, and voila.
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24Sunks Cost Bias, Resume Bias and Referral SchemesVideo lesson
Sunk Cost Bias, Resume Bias and the pros and cons of Referral Schemes
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25Tell Your Team About New Processes, and WhyVideo lesson
There's no point in creating wonderful new processes if no one knows about it. Inform your wider team of your plans, and ask for their help with certain elements to enure buy-in.

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