We often hear about DE&I in recruitment, but what about the rest of the employee lifecycle? In this episode, we welcome Adina Avram, Head of DEIB & Talent Development at Trivium Packaging, to dive deep into how organizations can implement DE&I across the entire employee journey. From attracting diverse talent to fostering inclusive development and managing exits fairly, Adina shares actionable strategies and best practices. Key Takeaways: Strategies to minimize bias in the hiring process. How to implement DE&I in talent management, including performance reviews, the 9-box grid, and succession planning. Tips for designing inclusive talent development programs. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

In this episode, Sacha Martina, co-founder of House of Inclusion, joins us to talk about inclusive recruitment. With 12 years of experience in recruitment with a strong focus on DE&I and her recent step in founding DE&I consultancy, House of Inclusion, Sacha has plenty of best practices and wisdom to share. On the TA Leaders series, she shares her career path until now, her perspective on DE&I in recruitment, how recruiters can build a business case for DE&I, and what to do when a proof of concept is successful. Sacha also goes into the leadership plays in sustainable change, the rise of inclusive leadership and why vulnerable leaders are more successful. Lastly she shares how she founded House of Inclusion and goes into lots of best practices how you can start inclusive recruitment tomorrow. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

In this podcast episode, Charlotte Melkert (CEO at Equalture) talks to Matthias Schmeisser,  Global Senior Director, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding at emnify about how to leverage key trends in the midst of demographic shift and digital transformation shaping the recruitment landscape in 2024, emphasising the importance of Candidate Experience [Attracting and Engaging Top Talent] and Skill-based Hiring [Data-driven recruitment and assessment of candidates]. In the conversation, Matthias Schmeisser explains that candidate experience and skill based hiring are intricately linked: If a recruitment process is perceived as fair by providing the candidate with a clear understanding of why an assessment is in place at the top of the funnel, candidate experience increases. In order to leverage both trends, recruitment teams are required to shift their mindset towards making the recruitment process a learning opportunity for candidates and recruiters alike. How to get started? Master your basics! By placing importance on the job intake meetings, learning from hiring managers about their top performers, skill gaps in the team and requirements, you set the foundation for both a great candidate experience and skill-based hiring matrices. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

In this episode, Mari Järvinen sheds light on the impact of authority bias in recruitment. She uncovers the subtle yet significant stages within the recruitment process where authority bias often strikes, influencing hiring decisions from strategic levels down to candidate information on CVs, and references. The expert points out that organisational hierarchies can steer the recruitment process and hiring decisions towards certain types of candidates and explains where the difference lies between relying on expertise and falling prey to authority bias when making recruitment decisions.Tune in as we navigate the complexities of authority bias in recruitment, uncovering best practices for designing a process, choosing the right assessment, and advancing and hiring the right candidate objectively. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

What do Talent Acquisition roadshows, interview trainings, DEIB ambassador networks, and stakeholder management have in common at HashiCorp? They all form the basis of their unbiased recruitment strategy, but not for the reasons you might assume. In this episode, Linda Hermanspann, Sr Recruiter at HashiCorp, shares her learnings about unbiased recruitment. Topics that she covers are bias awareness trainings, hiring manager or interview trainings, how HashCorp approaches diversity metrics and how the company uses it aside from targets and analysis of the status quo, why stakeholder management is so tricky in talent acquisition and how to best approach it. Throughout the episode, Linda shares best practices, processes and tools that have been instrumental in HashiCorps implementation of unbiased recruitment. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

Making the recruitment process more objective and unbiased is a pillar of providing equal opportunities to all candidates. But is it enough to see more ethnically diverse talent come into corporate leadership positions? In this episode, Sergio Panday, co-founder and CEO at Roots Inspire, shares about best practices to bring more ethnic talent into leadership positions at enterprises. In our conversation we cover the following topics: The reason for a stark lack of ethnic diversity in leadership at multinationals, the bottlenecks in recruitment and talent development for ethnic talent, the need for talent management aside recruitment to make diverse leadership teams sustainable, and other tips for recruitment professionals and HR managers to increase diversity at the top level of their organisations. Connect with our host & speaker:  Katharina Koidl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharina-koidl-953032191/ Sergio Panday: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiopanday/ Roots Inspire: https://rootsinspire.com/ Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

Companies are losing out on women in the recruitment process; whether it be in employer branding, the step from interview to hire, or at the offer stage. What can be done about that? In this episode, Léonie Kennepohl, co-founder at Female x Finance joins us to talk about women in the financial sector. This male-dominated industry has long struggled to attract, hire, and retain women. In this episode, Léonie will dive into why companies are struggling with their gender parity, where the bottlenecks lie in the recruitment process, how to identify the challenges of your company, and what you as a recruiter can do to bring more women into the company. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

In this episode, Zanina Katira, Senior Recruiter at Miro, joins us to talk about unbiased recruitment. Zanina joined Miro before their high growth period and has seen many iterations of the recruitment process. Iteration is one of Miro’s core values and part of the recipe for success. What is Miro’s approach to unbiased recruitment? Why is candidate experience and recruitment marketing instrumental in making recruitment more inclusive and unbiased? And can recruitment be unbiased in periods of rapid growth? What is Zanina’s biggest learning and what tips can she share to start with unbiased recruitment tomorrow? In this episode, she answers all those questions. Read “How Miro Avoids Bias in the Hiring Process”, a blog by Zanina Katira here: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/hiring-101/avoid-bias-in-hiring/Find all resources Miro shares about their recruitment process here: https://miro.com/careers/hiring/ Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

Inclusive recruitment expands the talent pool, and who wouldn’t want a bigger and more diverse range of candidates to hire? But the question is how do you create a more inclusive recruitment process? In this episode, Naomi Trickey, Chief People Officer at Mews, joins us to talk about inclusive recruitment at Mews. With 40 new hires every month, an inclusive hiring process is vital; but not given. With Naomi’s responsibility to safeguard inclusion and company values, she relies on best practices she shares in this conversation: Leadership alignment, unbiased interviewing, descriptive diversity metrics, and analogies that build the pillars of her work as a People leader.  Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

Why are the expectations of gen Z so debated? And what does ageism have to do with the discussion?  In this episode, Emma Agricola, D&I expert and founder of Inclusyoung, explains ageism. In our conversation we cover the following topics: The definition of ageism and age bias, why ageism towards young people (youngism) is often overlooked, common misconceptions about gen Z, the generation context of gen Z and their expectations, the impact of ageism in the recruitment process, and what recruiters and HR managers can do to minimise ageism in the recruitment process and the workplace.  Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

“If you don’t consciously include, you consciously exclude.” Psychological safety is the underpinning of employee engagement, participation, collaboration, learning and retention, as Bogdan puts it.  In this episode of Oops! I’m Biased Podcast, Bogdan Manta, The Essential Experts, joins us to explore psychological safety and the importance of it for creating inclusive environments. This conversation is a follow up to part 1 and dives into how inclusion and psychological safety connect, if there is inclusion without psychological safety, and how psychological safety can be measured. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com. Connect with our host and guest: Bogdan Manta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdanmanta/ Katharina Koidl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharina-koidl-953032191/ Find us elsewhere: Oops! I'm Biased Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JwV3mAhXz6iEgDkk4S2JQ & https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oops-im-biased/id1612109883 Equalture: https://equalture.com/ Equalture's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@equalture/videos

“If you don’t consciously include, you subconsciously exclude.” Psychological safety is the underpinning of employee engagement, participation, collaboration, learning and retention, as Bogdan Manta puts it.  In this episode of Oops! I’m Biased Podcast, Bogdan Manta, The Essential Experts, joins us to explore psychological safety and the importance of it for creating inclusive environments. This conversation includes a definition of psychological safety, the role it plays for performance, participation and learning, what happens in our brain when we don’t feel psychologically safe, situations that can trigger a breakdown of psychological safety, the effects of it, how inclusion and psychological safety connect and how psychological safety can be measured. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com. Connect with our host and guest: Bogdan Manta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdanmanta/ Katharina Koidl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharina-koidl-953032191/

What is the basis for unbiased recruitment? What does an ideal recruitment process look like and what are unbiased hiring decisions based on? In this episode, Frank Poll, VP of Talent at Ram Infotechnology and Senior Talent and Culture Strategist and founder at Mister Jobs shares his best practices on unbiased recruitment. Topics include: The business imperative for unbiased recruitment, how to structure the recruitment process in an unbiased way, making unbiased hiring decisions, the relationship between hiring unbiasedly and hiring for cultural fit, the problem with hiring for diversity, and more. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com. Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankpoll/ https://mister-jobs.nl/en/

Why is it so hard to change a recruitment process even if there is substantiated evidence that supports the change? What happens in our brains in the face of change that makes us reluctant and how can we embrace innovation in talent acquisition? In this episode, Leonie Grandpierre, Equalture’s Head of Science, explains conservatism bias in recruitment, where conservatism bias originates, which biases are related and why it often hinders strategic change and hiring decisions even in the face of sound evidence. Leonie will also explore moments in the hiring funnel that are most susceptible to conservatism bias, its impact and which biases intersect with conservatism bias Lastly, Leonie also shares tips on how we can minimize conservatism bias. Would like to know more about conservatism bias? https://www.equalture.com/bias-overview/conservatism-bias/ Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

Who does your job description attract? Does it speak to a diverse range of people who are a fit for the role? Job descriptions carry a lot of weight, and are oftentimes the first point of contact a candidate has with the company. So how can a good first impression be guaranteed? In this episode, Maureen Brinkman, Head of People and Culture at Skydreams and founder of an HR consultancy, shares best practices on how to make your job descriptions more inclusive. Topics include: The importance of inclusive language in job descriptions for talent attraction and inclusion purposes, elements in a job description that are sensitive, terms and jargon that should be avoided, strategies to assess your job descriptions, tools and metrics to use in order to measure the effectiveness of inclusive job descriptions and tips on how to start with making job descriptions more inclusive.  Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

What is culture? Given the general nature of the definition (i.e. a set of common norms and beliefs a group of people adheres to), the term is hard to define: A company, a generation, a country, a football team. And what if we use the culture we belong to as a reference point for our behaviour, interaction and expectations of others? Organisational psychologist, Mari Järvinen, discusses cultural and social bias, why it has such a wide scope, which moments of the recruitment process are most susceptible to it, why most traditional assessments are riddled with cultural bias, how to minimize it, and shares helpful resources to learn more about cultural difference and cognitive biases in the workplace. Connect with our host and guest: Katharina Koidl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharina-koidl-953032191/ Mari Järvinen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mari-jarvinen-profounder/ Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com .

The changing talent acquisition landscape is rooted in the disruption through budget cuts, hiring freezes, talent shortages, skill gaps and DE&I discrepancies between mission and practice. While pressure is mounting on HR and talent acquisition leaders to fill positions with top talent amidst these challenges, mental wellbeing and innovative decision making are declining. Uncertainty and prolonged stress makes organisations adverse to change and growth, explains Chris Marshall. In this episode, we invited professional futurist and uncertainty scientist, Chris Marshall to discuss: How our brain deals with uncertainty How stress effects our wellbeing and decision making The global challenges enterprises face in 2023 and how they affect businesses and their leaders How habitual thinking and bias affect decision making in recruitment And what recruitment leaders can do to combat biased decision making  Our guest: Chris Marshall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshall-christopher/ Author: Decoding Change: Understanding What The Heck Is Going On And Why We Should Be Optimistic About Our Future Enterprise Recruitment Trends 2023: https://www.equalture.com/blog/enterprise-recruitment-trends/

What piece of information serves as a bad anchor in the recruitment process? What could be a good anchor when deciding to hire or not to hire a candidate? Anchoring bias influences an individual to base their decision on a particular reference point. In this episode, Leonie Grandpierre, Equalture’s Head of Science, explains anchoring bias. In our conversation we cover the following topics: The definition of anchoring bias, examples of anchoring bias in everyday life, the impact of anchoring bias on the recruitment process, the moments that are most sensitive to anchoring bias in recruitment, good and bad anchors, biases that are closely related to anchoring bias, and how one can minimize its impact on decision making. Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our Community and Event Manager at: k.koidl@equalture.com.

With the increasing talent shortage and the rise of ChatGPT and other technological advancements, enterprises are looking to shift their recruitment process from experience-based to competency-based practices. Tony de Graaf, Global Director of Hiring Success at SmartRecruiters, covers the topic of hiring for skills and competencies and focuses on: What is hiring for skills and competencies? Why should we care about it? Why is it important now? What can you do today to get started? Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our podcast host, Katharina, at: k.koidl@equalture.com .

The recruitment process generally favours extraverts: When setting up job requirements, looking through CVs, interviews and assessments, we generally look for a professional with “leadership qualities and strong social skills, who thrives in a fast paced environment”. But is that really what organisations need? In this episode, Joanna Rawbone, expert on introversion, explains why extraversion bias disadvantages 50% of the population, what introversion and extraversion is, what effect extraversion bias has on different aspects of recruitment, and shares do’s and don’t around inclusive recruitment practices.  Do you have questions for our speakers or would like to contribute to the podcast? Please contact our podcast host, Katharina, at: k.koidl@equalture.com . Our guest: Joanna Rawbone: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannarawbone/