A diverse company brings numerous benefits, enhancing both its internal culture and external success. There are diversity recruiting strategies you can use to ensure you're meeting your diversity hiring goals, but there are also tools and software that may be vital for ensuring you can enact your strategies effectively.
Achieving your DEI hiring goals requires more than just one solution to a single stage of the talent acquisition process. To ensure a fully unbiased recruiting process, you'll need to consider all of the following:
With so many steps in which bias can creep into the process, you'll likely need multiple solutions to keep your practices as bias-free as possible. The following are the best diversity recruiting tools/software available. Some of them will only help with a single element listed above, while others help boost diversity hiring on multiple fronts.
hireEZ is an integrated talent acquisition software that brings multiple parts of the TA process together onto one platform. It offers several solutions to ensure that your recruiting process is as bias-free as possible. AI-powered Applicant Match automatically orders applicants based on how well their resume fits the job description, thus minimizing the potential for human bias to enter the process. In the settings, users can turn on bias-free sourcing so that decisions are made purely based on skills and experience.
Diversity filters are available for searching through both applicants and candidates for sourcing. Up-to-date talent market insights let you analyze the diversity makeup of your organization and compare it to competitors. Meanwhile, detailed reports show you exactly how effectively each member of the TA team is meeting diversity initiatives (along with several other recruitment KPIs). By integrating all of these solutions onto a single platform, hireEZ makes it quick and easy to meet your diversity hiring goals.
Clovers allows you to define job skills clearly and write inclusive job descriptions to attract diverse, qualified candidates. By utilizing their research-backed word suggestions, inclusion scoring, and welcoming language, you can make a strong first impression in job posts, outreach, and communications.
Clovers also gives you access to blind pre-screening, redacted resumes, and blind interviewing processes that allow you to focus solely on skills and abilities when determining who to move into the screening phase and who to hire.
Features: Employer branding review
Kanarys partners with organizations to create inclusive workplaces by leveraging data analytics and assessments to identify diversity, equity, and inclusion gaps. Through their platform, they offer tools to measure, benchmark, and improve DEI efforts, providing actionable insights that help companies foster a more equitable and inclusive environment. Kanarys also supports companies in achieving measurable DEI improvements, enhancing transparency, and aligning DEI initiatives with business goals.
Features: Job description language review
Textio provides DEIB support for multiple phases of the talent acquisition process. One of the most important tools it offers is a job description language review. Textio scans your job descriptions for any language that may be gender-biased, unwelcoming to diverse candidates, or otherwise non-inclusive. It offers several suggestions to improve the language in your job description—both generally and to eliminate bias. It's a great resource for revealing unintentionally discriminatory language in your job descriptions.
Features: Diversity job boards
DiversityJobs has built connections with several niche job boards, community-based organizations, and college/university partners—all with a commitment to serving underrepresented groups. Post a job to DiversityJobs, and it will become visible to members of all the aforementioned communities. By posting to DiversityJobs, you show your commitment to diversity hiring, thus increasing the chances of diverse talent applying to your jobs.
This job board reaches multiple underrepresented groups, while the following three are each specific to a single group.
Features: Diversity job boards
Fairygodboss is a community for women in the workforce—especially women in tech. Recruiters can create a profile showcasing their commitment to gender diversity and connect with female job seekers. Fairygodboss boasts a community of over 9 million female job seekers, so there's a good chance you'll be able to find the talent you need there.
Features: Diversity job boards
TalentAlly has partnered with many big names that boost minority representation, such as the NAACP. They host several job boards, each dedicated to a specific underrepresented group, and you can publish a single job posting on their main site that will get distributed to each of these job boards. If you want to focus on a particular underrepresented group, you can go to that specific job board to post a job opening.
Features: Blind assessments/pre-screening
Plum's unique candidate assessment tool uses objective, scientific insights to measure how good a candidate is a fit for your job opening. By utilizing their proprietary method of pre-screening candidates, you'll end up with a completely objective list of best-fit candidates, thus reducing how much human bias can affect your recruiting decisions.
Features: Blind assessments/pre-screening
Canditech is an assessment tool that allows you to test applicants' hard and soft skills. You can build an assessment yourself or use their library of 500+ pre-built assessments. Since grading is standardized, once all of your candidates have completed the assessment, you'll receive an unbiased best-fit list based solely on their skills and abilities.
Features: Blind assessments/pre-screening
Harver offers a wide variety of pre-screening assessment types, all of which are backed by science and methodically predict the best-fit applicant for your role. They are designed to ensure that the pre-screening process is quantitative and unbiased. Using one or more of their assessment types, you'll quickly generate a best-fit list of candidates to move down the pipeline.
Features: Blind assessments/prescreening
Vervoe is similar to Canditech in that it's an assessment tool for testing various candidate skills. They boast unique anti-cheating factors, and their AI can help grade video assessments. Their assessment library was created by leading I/O psychologists, and you can also create your own assessments. With AI doing the initial evaluation, your best-fit list will be unbiased and focused on skills and aptitude.
Features: Blind interviews
Interviewing.io provides employers with a way to conduct rigorous technical interviews anonymously, enabling them to assess candidates' skills in real-time without revealing identities to minimize bias. The platform allows companies to replicate typical technical phone screens while focusing solely on candidates' performance. They even provide you with sample interview questions for applicants to technical roles.
While each tool on this list provides unique support to enhance diversity at different stages of hiring, hireEZ stands out as a powerful, multi-faceted solution. With hireEZ's comprehensive features—such as AI-powered applicant review, diversity filters, and insightful talent analytics—you gain an all-in-one platform designed to foster a truly equitable hiring process.
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