879. Never Let Others Dictate What Is Possible For You

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Dobbins could do seventh grade math in third grade, but she couldn’t read. She was ridiculed by students and even teachers, who told her in so many ways, “Your best is only ever going to be so-so.” But with advice from her 6th grade teacher, she shifted her attitude from “I can't do it” to “No, I'm going to show you.” And she has continued to show everybody for years, including forming Career.Place, an anonymous candidate evaluation solution that removes bias from the screening process.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.4	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.3	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.6	Every Monday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:26.7	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:37.7	I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Melissa Dobbins.
0:41.2	Welcome, Melissa.
0:42.7	Hi, thank you so much for having me.
0:45.0	It is our pleasure.
0:46.5	Melissa, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:49.7	Absolutely.
0:51.3	All righty.
0:52.8	Removing bias from talent evaluation is more than just opening the door to a wider candidate pool in today's fierce competition for talent. It drives diversity, efficiency, and compliance. That's why Melissa Dobbins formed Career.Dot Place, an anonymous candidate evaluation solution that removes bias from the
1:13.2	screening process. Career. Dot place removes biased-laden resumes and time-consuming screening
1:19.2	calls from the hiring process and replaces them with a systemic solution that equips the hiring
1:24.3	team with the ability to easily and objectively identify those best
1:28.7	qualified for the job. Well, that's a summary of your career, Melissa. Tell our listeners around the
1:33.7	world what you're engaged in right now that has you excited and motivated, please. Well, with
1:38.9	Career.complace, I have the opportunity to do something absolutely profound. And that's to change the way that we do our hiring and remove all of those biases,
1:49.1	all of those barriers that keep people from having those jobs that they love and instead
1:57.4	create a talent evaluation, a screening process that screens in fantastic talent.
2:04.5	And by doing it the way that we do, it's also creating a far more efficient and compliant
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