Combatting Hiring Bias: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce with Intelligent Automation
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Intelligent automation can help combat the human biases that can lead to discriminatory hiring practices. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell takes on this topic with Jacob Goldstein, host of What’s Your Problem?, and guest Angela Hood, founder and CEO of ThisWay Global. They discuss how intelligent automation can accelerate inclusive hiring practices, why machines can mitigate bias but not remove it, and why diverse companies are more competitive.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:12.0 | This season of smart talks with IBM is all about new creators, the developers, data scientists, |
| 0:17.8 | CTOs, and other visionaries creatively applying technology in business to drive change. |
| 0:23.9 | They use their knowledge and creativity to develop better ways of working, no matter the industry. |
| 0:29.4 | Open hosts from your favorite Pushkin Industries podcasts as they use their expertise to deepen |
| 0:34.2 | these conversations. |
| 0:35.7 | And of course Malcolm Gladwell will guide you through the season as your host and provide |
| 0:39.6 | his thoughts and analysis along the way. |
| 0:42.4 | Look out for new episodes of smart talks with IBM on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, |
| 0:47.4 | or wherever you get your podcasts, and learn more at IBM.com slash smart talks. |
| 0:55.8 | Hello, hello, welcome to smart talks with IBM. |
| 0:58.7 | A podcast from Pushkin Industries, iHeartRadio, and IBM. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Malcolm Gladwell. |
| 1:05.2 | This season we're talking to new creators, the developers, data scientists, CTOs, and |
| 1:11.0 | other visionaries who are creatively applying technology in business to drive change. |
| 1:16.6 | Channeling their knowledge and expertise, they're developing more creative and effective |
| 1:20.6 | solutions, no matter the industry. |
| 1:23.6 | Our guest today is Angela Hood, founder and CEO of this way global. |
| 1:29.3 | Angela's mission is to eliminate discrimination in the hiring process. |
| 1:33.9 | Angela is a serial entrepreneur who saw the potential to use automation technology as a way |
| 1:39.2 | to combat the human biases that lead to unfair hiring practices and a less diverse, less |
| 1:45.7 | competitive workforce. |
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