10 keys to great candidate engagement in uncertain times

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10 keys to great candidate engagement in uncertain times.

The need for great candidate engagement has never been so critical in these uncertain times. Oleeo has developed these 10 key steps to help!

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Have a great Employer Value Proposition (EVP)

That is one that is simple, honest & deliverable. Valued by your target talent & reflective of your commitments to welfare in times of uncertainty.

Plan coordinated & differentiated engagement strategies for different talent pools

You need coordinated & differentiated strategies to attract & retain candidates based on their demographics, seeking to convey the various issues that different age groups care about in the current climate. Be as comprehensive as you can be, but don’t create extra work for teams already under pressure.

Engage early

Whether the candidates are passive or active jobseekers, it is imperative to establish trust and build rapport early. Your engagement needs to align with what they value, typically some sort of reassurance in these difficult times. Present options early and help gain traction as soon as you can.

Clearly define what a great organisational fit would be

Include initiatives around diversity or behaviours and demonstrate relatable values and attributes

Ensure your employer brand is represented end-to-end

Engage & deliver your EVP effectively & potently end-to-end: in webinars or virtual events & videos, across your website, via email, in talent banks, during the application, after application, in interviews, and close out.

Engage leadership, employees, advocates to amplify, authenticate, and bring to life your EVP

Present your reassurance as a tribe not just as an individual. Having good spokespeople is crucial. Relatability works well if you can get the internal traction. Scale up the engagement the further into the process you get.

Go Virtual & automate

Do what you would have done with real-world in person engagement. Help provide reassurance throughout to make virtual contact work – offer helping hands where technical issues occur or candidates appear uneasy.

Understand great and focus your engagement on great hires & candidates

Nurture promising talent who have the potential to be great future employees. Beware though that this can be subjective so time should be dedicated to accurately pulling together an agreed definition of what constitutes a great hire.

Use engaged candidates to be future advocates

Now an employee, it’s a great time to inspire future hires. Obtain their stories and use them to further build advocacy around your EVP. The cycle need never end!

Ensure your communication is simple, transparent and personal

It is important that this is treated on an as often as appropriate basis. Employers should seek to not be perceived as being overzealous with their communications.

Set expectations early and offer hires jobs as quickly as the system allows you to

Ensure you manage expectations by providing all of the information a candidate needs to consider in a timely manner.

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Conquer mobile-based applicant tracking

Conquer mobile applicant tracking with Oleeo.

The Oleeo Recruiting App – available from any webstore, can be accessed by recruiters, hiring managers or anyone involved the recruitment process.

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 It enables mobile applicant tracking and is an innovative way for talent acquisition leaders to keep abreast of any recruitment activity – whilst on the move.

Whatever the device, Oleeo can be configured to be accessible in a user-friendly way to ensure that candidates can be progressed and managed without being constrained to the office desktop.This will help talent acquisition leaders to know how many applications have been received for any vacancy, but also where each applicant is within the recruitment process.

For instance, the app will reveal full information on all candidates scheduled in for an interview and how many will attend each day. The user also has the ability to drill further into each candidate to be able to manage the full end-to-end recruitment cycle. Oleeo’s mobile applicant tracking will showcase key information and allow users to perform key tasks including:

Review the candidates CV/resume

View candidate feedback from other stakeholders

Offer their own feedback

– all of which is visible to any colleagues with permission

Interview Feedback forms can be accessed

– this offers support to the interviewer by ensuring the right information is captured during each interview – feedback forms are fully customisable per role – offering interview support every time

Thumbs up/down options

– again visible to colleagues – this is a useful way to gain a general interest level on each candidate

Users can request information from the candidate

– a great way to facilitate the process from a mobile device

Manage the candidate through stages in the process remotely

– the app is secure and aligned to local privacy legislations to ensure that it remains a robust and compliant option for managing recruiting efforts whilst on the go

A dedicated Interviews tab

- also enables mobile applicant tracking to support similar Interview activity from within the app.

The benefits of technology-enabled easy registration is limitless but can include:

Important Notes!

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Discover the Oleeo Products suite

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Discover the Oleeo Products suite.

Oleeo delivers results and helps to improve candidate engagement with automated scoring and recommendation candidates for selection.

Using Oleeo Technology.

All based on a wide range of data and ML algorithms/prescriptive analytics, the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement Platform includes the following products:

Oleeo Recruit

A next-generation ATS, Oleeo Recruit streamlines sourcing, selecting and hiring, with data- and AI-driven automation, dynamic workflow and bulk-processing capabilities

Oleeo Engage

Taking CRM to a new level, Oleeo Engage leverages data to enable intelligent, automated candidate engagement, from content shared with candidates in job portals to email campaigns sent to candidates.

Oleeo Events

Whether a company’s recruiting events are virtual or in-person, Oleeo Events makes event management easy, automating candidate registration, check-ins and profile creation, as well as dynamic pre-event and onsite candidate workflows.

Oleeo Insights

Answering an organization’s most important recruiting questions, Oleeo Insights includes pre-built analytics dashboards that cover a range of topic areas, helping companies to go from “what” to “so what” to “now what?

Intelligence and Automation Built-In

Oleeo’s vision is that the future of recruiting be data-driven and automated. Oleeo’s mission is to reduce the workload on recruiting, while enabling companies to make higher quality and more diverse hires.

Analytics and the use of data and AI are embedded throughout the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform, allowing recruiting teams to tailor the candidate experience, automating tasks and workflows throughout the recruiting lifecycle, taking candidates down different recruiting workflows depending on their attributes and/or Machine Learning insights.

With automation and intelligence built-in end to end, the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is an enterprise recruiting-technology solution that enables organizations to make great and diverse hires faster and more efficiently than ever before. 

The Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is designed to deliver:

Efficiency

Recruiting teams are under an immense administrative burden, managing increasingly high volumes of candidates (with an average of 91 steps per candidate) while working to meet changing business needs in time. With Oleeo, organizations leverage intelligent automation and bulk-processing capabilities to source, select, engage and hire their workforce more efficiently — reducing their workload, while accelerating time-to-hire.

Effectiveness

Even during an economic downturn, in-demand skills are in short supply and there is competition for top candidates. In addition to filling critical roles, recruiting must engage and nurture candidates for the future. With Oleeo, organizations can tailor recruiting workflows, use data to pinpoint and expedite top candidates and futureproof their talent pipeline — improving quality of hire.

Diversity and Inclusion

D&I is a top concern of most recruiting leaders today, yet most lack insights into D&I on which to base recruiting strategies. With Oleeo, companies can gain deep analytic insights into their state of D&I and use Intelligent Selection and Intelligent Writing capabilities to hardwire D&I into their processes, creating inclusive candidate experiences and improving diversity.

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Oleeo at glance

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Oleeo at a glance.

Oleeo was established in 1995 and operates worldwide providing applicant tracking and intelligent talent acquisition technology solutions. This infographic highlights our key business milestones over 25.+ years.

Using Oleeo Technology.

With automation and intelligence built-in end to end, the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is an enterprise recruiting-technology solution that enables organizations to make great and diverse hires faster and more efficiently than ever before.

The Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is designed to deliver:

Efficiency

Recruiting teams are under an immense administrative burden, managing increasingly high volumes of candidates (with an average of 91 steps per candidate) while working to meet changing business needs in time. With Oleeo, organizations leverage intelligent automation and bulk-processing capabilities to source, select, engage and hire their workforce more efficiently — reducing their workload, while accelerating time-to-hire.

Effectiveness

Even during an economic downturn, in-demand skills are in short supply and there is competition for top candidates. In addition to filling critical roles, recruiting must engage and nurture candidates for the future. With Oleeo, organizations can tailor recruiting workflows, use data to pinpoint and expedite top candidates and futureproof their talent pipeline — improving quality of hire.

Diversity and Inclusion

D&I is a top concern of most recruiting leaders today, yet most lack insights into D&I on which to base recruiting strategies. With Oleeo, companies can gain deep analytic insights into their state of D&I and use Intelligent Selection and Intelligent Writing capabilities to hardwire D&I into their processes, creating inclusive candidate experiences and improving diversity.

The Oleeo Recruiting Enablement Platform includes the following products:

Oleeo Recruit

A next-generation ATS, Oleeo Recruit streamlines sourcing, selecting and hiring, with data- and AI-driven automation, dynamic workflow and bulk-processing capabilities

Oleeo Engage

Taking CRM to a new level, Oleeo Engage leverages data to enable intelligent, automated candidate engagement, from content shared with candidates in job portals to email campaigns sent to candidates.

Oleeo Events

Whether a company’s recruiting events are virtual or in-person, Oleeo Events makes event management easy, automating candidate registration, check-ins and profile creation, as well as dynamic pre-event and onsite candidate workflows.

Oleeo Insights

Answering an organization’s most important recruiting questions, Oleeo Insights includes pre-built analytics dashboards that cover a range of topic areas, helping companies to go from “what” to “so what” to “now what?

Intelligence and Automation Built-In

Oleeo’s vision is that the future of recruiting be data-driven and automated. Oleeo’s mission is to reduce the workload on recruiting, while enabling companies to make higher quality and more diverse hires.

Analytics and the use of data and AI are embedded throughout the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform, allowing recruiting teams to tailor the candidate experience, automating tasks and workflows throughout the recruiting lifecycle, taking candidates down different recruiting workflows depending on their attributes and/or Machine Learning insights.

Automated scoring & recommendation

Oleeo delivers results and helps to improve candidate engagement with automated scoring and recommendation candidates for selection based on a wide range of data and ML algorithms/prescriptive analytics. 

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Recruiting leaders must focus on quality of hire

Recruiters must focus on quality of hire to prosper in uncertain times.

Video of a study from Aptitude Research & Oleeo demonstrating a widespread need for intelligent talent acquisition to transform talent acquisition processes in the “new normal” and improve quality of hire. 

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Improving Quality of Hire through Recruiting Enablement published by Aptitude Research, leading providers of  research, advisory and market analysis on all things Human Capital Management in association with Oleeo, uncovers how companies are facing a new normal in talent acquisition that impacts both processes and technology.

With 63% of companies stating that finding and attracting quality hires is the greatest challenge facing their businesses, talent acquisition and HR leaders can no longer afford to rely on a reactive or traditional approach to recruitment. They must look to the future and rely on data to meet the needs of the business and the changing expectations of candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers, a new research report published today reveals

Based on research conducted in February and March 2020, it reveals how today’s global crisis brings a state of uncertainty that requires companies to be efficient but also, to focus on quality in a more strategic way in order to see improvements such as overall efficiency, improved candidate experience, reduced bias, and better quality of hires.

Interesting findings from the research include:

Companies that use data to automate decision-making are twice as likely to improve quality of hire

72% of enterprise companies believe that using data to automate decisions is a priority in 2020

Nearly 90% of companies are concerned with reducing bias in their talent acquisition process

Designing, testing, and configuring workflows that support diverse and inclusive recruiting strategies – at scale

Currently, recruiters spend on average over 16 hours a week on scheduling and 1 in 3 companies state that the application process takes over 30 minutes.

67% of talent acquisition and HR professionals are not providing hiring managers with the right data to made decisions

Only 32% of senior leaders are confident in the data that they have available to make decisions

Half of large enterprise employers do not measure the ROI of their recruitment technology

Less than 50% of companies state that interviews are undertaken consistently in their business

The paper goes on to explore how intelligent talent acquisition platforms can help better position companies to achieve improved efficiencies and better quality of hire. Recruiting Enablement provides recruiters with the tools they need to be successful in attracting, recruiting and hiring quality talent. These tools automate many of the administrative tasks of talent acquisition and allow recruiting and hiring teams to make data-driven decisions focused on quality.

Intelligent automation

With configurable workflows and data-driven recommendations, intelligent talent acquisition is poised to help recruiters and the organizations they serve achieve a recruiter experience that does what recruitment marketing has done for the candidate’s experience – make it more effective, more relevant and most importantly – more human again. Click the buttons below to access the short teaser video or talk to us today about how we can assist.

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Data-driven Intelligent Talent Acquisition Platform Video

Data-driven Intelligent Talent Acquisition Platform Video.

Learn from this video why talent acquisition leaders must pivot to data-driven recruiting, and empower all recruiters to support diverse and inclusive strategies.

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Intelligent Talent Acquisition: Leveraging Data and Automation to Achieve Great, Diverse Hires details how recruiting leaders can address pressing talent acquisition challenges by adopting new tools and strategies that expand diverse talent pools, enable tailored employer value propositions, improve decision making, mitigate bias, and speed up the alignment of recruiting with the desired business outcomes regardless of strategy, complexity and volume. Such innovations are needed to help recruiters around some of their biggest challenges including talent shortages, rising competition, candidates casually applying for vacancies and shortlisting later and corporate pressures around diversity & inclusion levels.

Leaders are once again at the dawn of a game changer, known as Intelligent Talent Acquisition, which is transforming the hiring experience to make it more effective, efficient, and relevant, as outlined in this paper – the most competitive businesses adopt automated and data-driven recruiting technology.

As a practice, Intelligent Talent Acquisition encompasses the processes, content, and technology that empower talent acquisition teams to recruit both efficiently and effectively at high volumes and high velocity. This is enabled by Intelligent Talent Acquisition technology, such as that provided by Oleeo, which drives automated and data-driven recruiting, and empowers recruiters to support diverse and inclusive strategies at high volumes and through multiple configurable workflows.

Too often the focus of recruiting is on filling vacancies and ignores the ultimate goal, which is to make the best possible hires. Intelligent Talent Acquisition removes the need to choose between speed and quality, and helps recruiting become a strategic, evidence-led function where data-driven automation and decision making is proven to result in great diverse hires.

Intelligent Talent Acquisition Platforms include the following characteristics:

Comprehensive

Built to work with your existing technology stack, Intelligent Talent Acquisition platforms include functionality to support applicant tracking, assessments and screening, candidate engagement, interview management, and event management.

Configurable

Built to support diverse and inclusive recruiting strategies, Intelligent Talent Acquisition platforms allow recruiters to design and execute on highly tailored workflows that include the specific processes and content unique to specific scenarios.

Automated

Built to help recruiters reinvest their time into high-value activities, Intelligent Talent Acquisition platforms include data-driven automation to speed bulk activities, such as sifting, screening, assessing, interview scheduling, and making job offers.

Data-Driven

Built to help recruiters pinpoint and advance best-fit candidates that meet diversity and inclusion objectives at scale, Intelligent Talent Acquisition platforms use AI and machine learning to remove bias from and give insight into the effectiveness of recruiting processes.

Inclusive

Built to nurture diverse and inclusive strategies, next-generation Intelligent Talent Acquisition platforms combine data-driven decision making with the ability to deliver tailored content at every step in the workflow

Intelligent automation

With configurable workflows and data-driven recommendations, Intelligent Talent Acquisition is poised to help recruiters and the businesses they serve achieve a recruiter experience that does what recruitment marketing has done for the candidate’s experience: make it more effective, more efficient, more relevant and, most importantly, more human again. 

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Discover more about Oleeo

Discover more about Oleeo.

The Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is an enterprise recruiting-technology solution that enables organizations to make great and diverse hires.

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Using Oleeo Technology.

With automation and intelligence built-in end to end, the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is an enterprise recruiting-technology solution that enables businesses to make great and diverse hires faster and more efficiently than ever before. 

The Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform is designed to deliver:

Efficiency

Recruiting teams are under an immense administrative burden, managing increasingly high volumes of candidates (with an average of 91 steps per candidate) while working to meet changing business needs in time. With Oleeo, organizations leverage intelligent automation and bulk-processing capabilities to source, select, engage and hire their workforce more efficiently — reducing their workload, while accelerating time-to-hire.

Effectiveness

Even during an economic downturn, in-demand skills are in short supply and there is competition for top candidates. In addition to filling critical roles, recruiting must engage and nurture candidates for the future. With Oleeo, organizations can tailor recruiting workflows, use data to pinpoint and expedite top candidates and futureproof their talent pipeline — improving quality of hire.

Diversity and Inclusion

D&I is a top concern of most recruiting leaders today, yet most lack insights into D&I on which to base recruiting strategies. With Oleeo, companies can gain deep analytic insights into their state of D&I and use Intelligent Selection and Intelligent Writing capabilities to hardwire D&I into their processes, creating inclusive candidate experiences and improving diversity.

The Oleeo Recruiting Enablement Platform includes the following products:

Oleeo Recruit

A next-generation ATS, Oleeo Recruit streamlines sourcing, selecting and hiring, with data- and AI-driven automation, dynamic workflow and bulk-processing capabilities

Oleeo Engage

Taking CRM to a new level, Oleeo Engage leverages data to enable intelligent, automated candidate engagement, from content shared with candidates in job portals to email campaigns sent to candidates.

Oleeo Events

Whether a company’s recruiting events are virtual or in-person, Oleeo Events makes event management easy, automating candidate registration, check-ins and profile creation, as well as dynamic pre-event and onsite candidate workflows.

Oleeo Insights

Answering an organization’s most important recruiting questions, Oleeo Insights includes pre-built analytics dashboards that cover a range of topic areas, helping companies to go from “what” to “so what” to “now what?

Intelligence and Automation Built-In

Oleeo’s vision is that the future of recruiting be data-driven and automated. Oleeo’s mission is to reduce the workload on recruiting, while enabling companies to make higher quality and more diverse hires.

Talk to us today to learn more about Oleeo's Technology

Analytics and the use of data and AI are embedded throughout the Oleeo Recruiting Enablement platform, allowing recruiting teams to tailor the candidate experience, automating tasks and workflows throughout the recruiting lifecycle, taking candidates down different recruiting workflows depending on their attributes and/or Machine Learning insights.

Oleeo delivers results and helps to improve candidate engagement

By automatically surfacing different content to different candidates at specific moments in the candidate journey, all based on data. Manage and optimize ad spend with automated, programmatic job-ad posting, streamline candidate selection and reduce human bias, with automated scoring and recommendation candidates for selection based on a wide range of data and ML algorithms/prescriptive analytics.

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Oleeo would be delighted to hear about your talent acquisition needs to see if we can help you. Get in touch today!

Deliver gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo

Deliver gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo.

This video gives you more information on what the tool offers to help you ensure gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo.

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Language is a key contributor to such bias – if you want to know more, this video shows how to eliminate it. There is much evidence published that shows that subtle but systematic wording differences can influence job appeal negatively and increase gender inequality. These differences also exist in candidate CVs or resumes, and perpetuate biases – either unconsciously through the human recruiter or through machine learning representations.

Eliminating gender bias needs to include technology that helps amplify blind recruitment. Oleeo has sought to deliver gender de-biasing in recruitment. We have done this by seeking to establish features that may differentiate a male candidate’s CV or resume from a female candidate’s resume. We have considered if there are lexical, syntactic and semantic differences in the text that distinguishes male and female CV or resumes and if these differences are then perpetuated or amplified in machine learning representations of the CV and resumes – this video explains it more.

Using Oleeo technology, recruiters can determine if disparate impact on the gender minority may occur in the hiring process due to statistical differences in the underlying male and female CVs or resumes, manifesting as redundant encodings of gender information in machine learning representations of CVs and resumes. This is why gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo is paramount.

Oleeo analysis has demonstrated how small, but statistically significant patterns, such as resume length, readability and use of certain words can easily lead to gender identification and influence a recruiter looking to achieve gender balance subconsciously. 

Findings that influenced this product include:

Whilst the statistical differences for CVs or resumes between different job sectors are very apparent, the differences in a specific job sector between male and female CVs or resumes was more subtle but still statistically significant. For instance, the number of sentences, words and unique words used in a CV or resume have distinct differences across job sectors.

However, there is a gender difference in that 90% of the top-10 male discriminant words are proper nouns and nouns, whereas only 68% of the top-10 female discriminant words are proper nouns and nouns. This indicates that proper nouns usage plays a big role in differentiating male and female CVs or resumes, which is not surprising as it encompasses given names which have gender connotations.

Even with blind recruitment methods applied, the redundant encoding of gender in machine learning representations could still be an issue and appears to be amplified, which could lead to disparate impact on the gender minority.

An add-on module to Oleeo Recruit

Intelligent Writing helps recruiters create gender-neutral job postings/descriptions, attracting more female candidates. Leveraging artificial intelligence, Intelligent Writing identifies gender biased words and recommends gender-neutral alternatives. This datasheet gives you more information on what the tool offers to help you ensure gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo. Click the buttons below to view this short video or talk to us today about how we can assist with your gender de-biasing in recruitment needs.

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Find top candidates with AI-driven recruitment from Oleeo

Find top candidates with AI-driven recruitment from Oleeo.

The technology captured in this video helps recruiters make better informed decisions in a fraction of the time. At a time when the competition for talent is fierce, this helps you hire even faster.

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Intelligent selection is based on predictive scoring and prescriptive recommendations that measure skills, cultural fit, offer acceptance probability and probable retention. The AI-driven recruitment tool helps to prioritise candidates who should be advanced to interview or assessment stages, starting with your existing selection framework and then incorporating all of your selection tools & data.

Intelligent selection is based on predictive scoring and prescriptive recommendations that measure skills, cultural fit, offer acceptance probability and probable retention. The AI-driven recruitment tool helps to prioritise candidates who should be advanced to interview or assessment stages, starting with your existing selection framework and then incorporating all of your selection tools & data.

Intelligent selection is based on predictive scoring and prescriptive recommendations that measure skills, cultural fit, offer acceptance probability and probable retention. The AI-driven recruitment tool helps to prioritise candidates who should be advanced to interview or assessment stages, starting with your existing selection framework and then incorporating all of your selection tools & data.

Tailored algorithms elegantly handle high-volume automation and deliver at-a-glance qualified, quality candidate recommendations critical to recruiting success in large-scale hiring environments. Our algorithms will help companies to use AI-driven recruitment to shift from being reactive to proactive in balancing the need to accurately and quickly identify high-quality candidates while simultaneously ensuring compliance and diversity.

Hire the best before competitors by hiring faster without sacrificing quality

Reduce costs & enable recruiters to do what they love, engaging with and hiring great candidates

Improve hire quality, performance and retention

Fill hard to fill roles by widening talent pools (and ease recruiters’ pain when screening/sifting at high volume)

Incorporate all your existing selection tools & data to ensure transparency and fairness

At-a-glance summaries show all candidates using a five star quality recommendation to put forward to interview, screen or reject.

An add-on module to Oleeo Recruit, Intelligent Selection leverages artificial intelligence to automatically score candidates for interview selection and next steps, reducing bias in selection, pinpointing top candidates, and improving quality of hire, while accelerating recruiting processes. Using data points found in CV/resumes, application forms and online test scores, Intelligent Selection applies proven machine learning algorithms to identify the candidates most likely to be great hires, while avoiding bias.

Oleeo’s Intelligent Selection Algorithm

Oleeo’s Intelligent Selection algorithm looks at your available data (such as candidate achievements, education, past employment, and test results, as well as successful candidates’ performance in role and retention), and uses this data to understand how decisions are being made today about who to invite to interview. 

This video gives you more information on what the tool offers to help you benefit from AI-driven recruitment using Oleeo technology. Click the buttons below to read the datasheet or talk to us today about how we can assist.

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Ensure gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo

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Ensure gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo.

It’s no great secret that gender diversity and inclusion have never been more central to business as uncertainty dominates headlines and continues to make waves globally.

Language is a key contributor to such bias. There is much evidence published that shows that subtle but systematic wording differences can influence job appeal negatively and increase gender inequality. These differences also exist in candidate CVs or resumes, and perpetuate biases – either unconsciously through the human recruiter or through machine learning representations.

Eliminating gender bias needs to include technology that helps amplify blind recruitment. Oleeo has sought to deliver gender de-biasing in recruitment. We have done this by seeking to establish features that may differentiate a male candidate’s CV or resume from a female candidate’s resume. We have considered if there are lexical, syntactic and semantic differences in the text that distinguishes male and female CV or resumes and if these differences are then perpetuated or amplified in machine learning representations of the resumes.

Intelligent writing

Using Oleeo Technology.

Using Oleeo technology, recruiters can determine if disparate impact on the gender minority may occur in the hiring process due to statistical differences in the underlying male and female CVs or resumes, manifesting as redundant encodings of gender information in machine learning representations of CVs and resumes. This is why gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo is paramount.

Oleeo analysis has demonstrated how small, but statistically significant patterns, such as resume length, readability and use of certain words can easily lead to gender identification and influence a recruiter looking to achieve gender balance subconsciously. Findings that influenced this product include:

Whilst the statistical differences for CVs or resumes between different job sectors are very apparent, the differences in a specific job sector between male and female CVs or resumes was more subtle but still statistically significant. For instance, the number of sentences, words and unique words used in a CV or resume have distinct differences across job sectors.

However, there is a gender difference in that 90% of the top-10 male discriminant words are proper nouns and nouns, whereas only 68% of the top-10 female discriminant words are proper nouns and nouns. This indicates that proper nouns usage plays a big role in differentiating male and female CVs or resumes, which is not surprising as it encompasses given names which have gender connotations.

Intelligent Writing.

Even with blind recruitment methods applied, the redundant encoding of gender in machine learning representations could still be an issue and appears to be amplified, which could lead to disparate impact on the gender minority.

An add-on module to Oleeo Recruit, Intelligent Writing helps recruiters create gender-neutral job postings/descriptions, attracting more female candidates. Leveraging artificial intelligence, Intelligent Writing identifies gender biased words and recommends gender-neutral alternatives. This datasheet gives you more information on what the tool offers to help you ensure gender de-biasing in recruitment with Oleeo. Click the buttons below to read the datasheet or talk to us today about how we can assist with your gender de-biasing in recruitment needs.

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Oleeo would be delighted to hear about your talent acquisition needs to see if we can help you. Get in touch today!