Employee Spotlight: Hew (Head of Engineering)

03

June 2021

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5

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Employee Spotlight: Jade (Head of Account Management)

20

April 2021

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6

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We’re hiring a software engineer: Here's what it's like to be a developer at Applied

11

August 2020

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4

minute read

Case Study: staatslabor x Applied

16

July 2020

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6

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Applied is hiring a Head of Product

09

July 2020

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4

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Post-COVID Hiring: Insights from our data

02

July 2020

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5

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Kate Glazebrook: Why I'm stepping back as CEO

19

April 2020

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11

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Meet our new CEO Khyati Sundaram

19

April 2020

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2

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BBC ‘halt’ applications if candidates don’t answer personal background questions

28

January 2020

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4

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We used the Applied platform to blind review mince pies: Here’s the results

16

December 2019

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4

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Where do the best employees come from?

25

July 2019

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7

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Over 100,000 candidates have now applied for jobs using Applied!

14

June 2019

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7

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In their own words: Claire Beattie, Head of Recruitment, Carey Group

24

April 2019

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4

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How to remove gender bias from your job descriptions once and for all

04

March 2019

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5

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Nine months since the UK gender pay gap data

27

February 2019

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5

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Values-Based Recruitment: The Ultimate Guide

02

August 2021

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9

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Skills-Based Hiring: The Essential Guide

19

July 2021

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7

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Startup Hiring: Find the Best Talent Using This Predictive Process

22

June 2021

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5

minute read

Digital Marketing Interview Questions (Behavioural Science Approved)

07

June 2021

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4

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What Is Conformity Bias and How Does It Affect Recruitment?

27

May 2021

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4

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Work Simulations: How to Assess Candidates Using Data

11

May 2021

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6

minute read

What is affinity bias and how does it affect the workplace?

06

May 2021

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4

minute read

Structured interviews: How to data-proof and de-bias interviewing

27

April 2021

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9

minute read

Interview techniques for employers: what works (according to science)

20

April 2021

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9

minute read

The truth about strength based interview questions (and a fairer, data-driven alternative)

23

March 2021

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9

minute read

Perceptive discrimination (and its impact on recruitment)

17

March 2021

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7

minute read

Recruitment Bias Report: How bias affects hiring and how to remove it

10

March 2021

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15

minute read

Does Unconscious Bias Training Work? [Infographic]

05

February 2021

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3

minute read

Fair Hiring 101: Your Go-To Manual for Inclusive Recruitment

01

February 2021

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13

minute read

Second interview questions: Your ultimate guide (based on behavioural science)

25

January 2021

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9

minute read

Perception bias: What is it and how can it affect recruitment?

11

January 2021

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9

minute read

Stereotype bias: Need-to-know insights for fairer recruitment

07

December 2020

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5

minute read

The Truth About Name Blind Recruitment (Here’s What the Science Says)

27

November 2020

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7

minute read

What’s the difference between implicit bias and unconscious bias?

23

November 2020

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1

minute read

Attribution Bias: What is Attribution Bias?

23

November 2020

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4

minute read

How to avoid groupthink (with one simple, cost-free step)

23

November 2020

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4

minute read

What is recency bias? And its impact on recruitment

16

November 2020

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4

minute read

What is the halo and horn effect and how does it influence hiring?

29

October 2020

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4

minute read

How to write a job advert: 5 steps to high-converting job ads

26

October 2020

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7

minute read

How unconscious bias can affect inclusivity in an organisation

15

October 2020

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4

minute read

What is contrast effect? And how it impacts recruitment

12

October 2020

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4

minute read

Why you should stop hiring for cultural fit

08

October 2020

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3

minute read

What should a job description include?

28

September 2020

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4

minute read

Best practices in recruitment and selection (according to science)

14

September 2020

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7

minute read

What is the purpose of a cover letter? Do we really need them?

09

September 2020

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4

minute read

4 Steps to creating good interview questions

02

September 2020

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5

minute read

What is confirmation bias?

19

August 2020

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3

minute read

What is Interview Bias? | Common Interview Biases

10

August 2020

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5

minute read

The science behind unconscious bias - and how it affects hiring

20

July 2020

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11

minute read

We made Elon Musk’s résumé even shorter than that other one

16

July 2020

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5

minute read

Cognitive biases in hiring: cheat sheet

16

July 2020

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4

minute read

Candidate screening 101: How to assess candidates 3x more accurately

13

July 2020

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8

minute read

Blind Hiring: the secret to increasing your organisation’s performance by 33%+

30

June 2020

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9

minute read

How to make the right hiring decision

18

June 2020

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3

minute read

How to Write a Job Description | Job Description Guide

15

June 2020

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18

minute read

Can we predict applicant performance without requiring CVs? - Putting Applied to the test [Part 1]

08

June 2020

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4

minute read

How to recruit top tech talent

21

May 2020

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8

minute read

The interview questions playbook: Your ultimate guide to smarter interviewing

19

May 2020

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9

minute read

How to hire software developers: the complete, end-the-end guide

18

May 2020

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19

minute read

What is a Psychometric Test in Recruitment?

31

March 2020

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7

minute read

Should you list specific languages in your developer job description?

27

March 2020

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5

minute read

My calculator tells me people will apply on Wednesday

13

March 2020

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4

minute read

Procrastinate your way into your dream job -part 1 of 2

13

March 2020

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6

minute read

The 4 Horsemen of the Hiring Apocalypse

13

March 2020

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12

minute read

The 3 best ways to assess candidates

12

March 2020

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7

minute read

Use THIS instead of CVs: Here’s our fairer, data-backed CV alternative

10

March 2020

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7

minute read

Biased, broken and full of bullsh*t: the case for killing CVs (backed by science)

21

January 2020

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8

minute read

Why my CV sucks! How bias in my CV stopped me getting interviews

30

December 2019

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7

minute read

What is ‘Wisdom of the Crowds’ and how can it improve hiring?

13

October 2019

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5

minute read

How to use inclusive language in job descriptions

26

September 2019

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4

minute read

Why unconscious bias training does not work

27

August 2019

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22

minute read

What is unconscious bias and how can we prevent it?

05

July 2019

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4

minute read

Beauty and the Bias: Physical attractiveness bias in hiring

05

May 2019

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4

minute read

How to anonymise CVs for fairer hiring

12

December 2018

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10

minute read

How do I remove bias from my recruitment process?

29

November 2018

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8

minute read

What is blind hiring?

27

November 2018

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8

minute read

Is my recruitment process biased?

26

November 2018

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7

minute read

9 Reasons Your Job Ads Aren't Working

09

October 2018

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10

minute read

Procrastinate your way into your dream job - Part 2 of 2

23

August 2018

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7

minute read

9 Steps to Hosting a Successful Virtual Career Fair

27

December 2020

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9

minute read

5 Mistakes everyone needs to avoid when virtual recruiting

16

November 2020

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4

minute read

Candidate rejection email: How to get it right

13

August 2020

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3

minute read

Why we give every candidate personalised feedback

14

July 2020

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5

minute read

Creating a positive candidate experience

13

July 2020

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15

minute read

Candidate experience webinar Q&A: Your questions answered

13

May 2020

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9

minute read

How to write a rejection email

May 2020

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3

minute read

Job boards: your questions answered

16

March 2020

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5

minute read

We asked people for their worst interview questions… here’s what they said

13

March 2020

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2

minute read

How we write copy for humans

14

March 2020

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4

minute read

What we learnt using our own product to hire

14

March 2020

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9

minute read

When a rejection became a suggestion. How to successfully refer candidates to other jobs

March 2020

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4

minute read

[Part 2] The view from the other side – how a rejection can actually be positive

January 2020

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4

minute read

Company treats engineering applicants like human beings... you won't believe what happens next!

14

November 2019

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6

minute read

[Part 1] A tale of two job applications: from a broken, pointless process to being hired at Applied

13

November 2019

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10

minute read

What do candidates say about our application process?

07

July 2019

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4

minute read

Should You Use Diversity Quotas? A Look at the Evidence

13

August 2021

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9

minute read

How to Find Candidates: Sourcing a Bigger, More Diverse Talent Pool

13

August 2021

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7

minute read

Culture Recruitment: 5 Steps to Bias-Free Culture Testing

13

July 2021

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6

minute read

Inclusive Hiring: 4 Steps to an Ethical, Data-Driven Recruitment Process

13

June 2021

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8

minute read

Journey Towards Inclusive Hiring with Very Great

24

June 2021

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3

minute read

How Exactly Do You Measure Diversity in an Organisation?

13

June 2021

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4

minute read

Culture Fit Interview Questions: Why They Harm Diversity and What to Use Instead

13

June 2021

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5

minute read

Ethical Hiring Practices: 5 Steps to a Fairer Recruitment Process

13

May 2021

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7

minute read

[Ultimate Guide] Diversity Sourcing: Strategies that Work

13

May 2021

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7

minute read

Covert Racism: Explanations, Data and Solutions

13

May 2021

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5

minute read

The Truth About Equality of Opportunity vs Equality of Outcome

13

April 2021

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17

minute read

Diversity Recruitment: Your End-to-End Manual (based on science)

13

April 2021

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11

minute read

What are micro-behaviours in the workplace?

13

April 2021

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3

minute read

Religious Discrimination in the Workplace [mini-report]

13

March 2021

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6

minute read

[Part 2] Gender Pay Gap at Applied

13

March 2021

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5

minute read

The Business Case for Diversity | Applied

13

March 2021

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7

minute read

Racial Discrimination in the Workplace Report

13

February 2021

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9

minute read

How diversity can drive growth (and what you can do to improve it)

25

January 2021

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4

minute read

Gender Bias in Hiring Report: Data-backed strategies for improving gender equality in the workplace

13

January 2021

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25

minute read

Building diverse teams: stop saying its a sourcing problem

14

January 2021

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12

minute read

[Part 1] Gender Pay Gap at Applied: How to get your company’s gender pay gap on track to 0

13

December 2020

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7

minute read

Discrimination by association: Essential info for employers

13

December 2020

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5

minute read

6 Ways to combat cyberbullying and digital discrimination in the workplace

27

November 2020

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10

minute read

The difference between diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (and how to excel at it all)

18

November 2020

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7

minute read

Equality and diversity in recruitment: 6 critical mistakes to avoid

13

November 2020

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7

minute read

What is race discrimination? And how to banish it from recruitment

13

November 2020

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5

minute read

A Guide to Direct and Indirect Discrimination

13

November 2020

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6

minute read

How to prevent age discrimination during the recruitment process

13

October 2020

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5

minute read

What Is Positive Discrimination? And Should You Be Doing It?

13

October 2020

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5

minute read

Board Diversity: Why it matters and how to fix it

13

October 2020

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5

minute read

Why we don't use AI for hiring decisions

16

September 2020

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12

minute read

What is meant by diversity? And why you should make it a priority

13

September 2020

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5

minute read

What is inclusion? (And how to improve it)

13

September 2020

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5

minute read

Diverse Insights: A conversation with Ulysses J Smith

11

August 2020

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12

minute read

Hiring for diversity: Everything you need to know

13

August 2020

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10

minute read

Gender pay gap: 4 actions you can take right now to make a difference

13

July 2020

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3

minute read

Recruitment driven diversity - Felix Mitchell (Instant Impact)

28

July 2020

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4

minute read

Diversity & Inclusion: 3 Proven strategies that actually work

13

July 2020

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4

minute read

Improving racial and ethnic diversity in STEMM: What impact does debiasing your hiring have?

14

July 2020

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8

minute read

“It’s a pandemic of racism”: the failure of data, implicit bias and systemic discrimination

14

June 2020

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19

minute read

Can technology improve diversity? - Putting Applied to the test [Part 2]

14

June 2020

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1

minute read

FREE Report: What Works? Evidence-Based Ideas to Increase DEI

13

May 2020

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2

minute read

So you read Lean In… now what?

14

March 2020

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6

minute read

The 2020 guide to recruiting diverse talent

16

March 2020

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5

minute read

Which countries score the highest in terms of equal employment opportunity regulations?

22

November 2019

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2

minute read

Diverse Insights: A conversation with Lori Nishiura Mackenzie

16

October 2019

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10

minute read

Diverse Insights: A conversation with Steven Huang

14

August 2019

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5

minute read

The Class Ceiling: Tackling Class Discrimination in Recruitment

16

August 2019

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9

minute read

How to advertise a job for diversity and talent (hint: understand job boards!)

02

July 2019

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6

minute read

What’s in a name? Name discrimination and hiring in the UK

16

July 2019

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4

minute read

Tackling religious discrimination in the hiring process

11

July 2019

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4

minute read

Blind Hiring Statistics: Why the Process Works

16

July 2019

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4

minute read

5 Reasons You’re Struggling with Diversity Hiring Initiatives

16

May 2019

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5

minute read

Diverse Insights: A conversation with Natalie Mellin

13

May 2019

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9

minute read

Women in STEM - Are we making improvements?

16

May 2019

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4

minute read

Law & Order: Diversity Edition

16

April 2019

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5

minute read

Diverse Insights: A Conversation with Aubrey Blanche

14

April 2019

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10

minute read

Is age just a number? The problems of ageism in recruitment

16

April 2019

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10

minute read

How can businesses benefit from blind recruitment?

16

April 2019

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5

minute read

Winners and Sinners: examining diversity in the UK’s industries

16

April 2019

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5

minute read

Top 3 reasons why having a diverse workforce should be a top priority for your business

16

March 2019

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4

minute read

How we Source Candidates at Applied

19

August 2021

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5

minute read

Employee Spotlight: WuQing (Community Lead)

13

July 2021

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4

minute read

How to Measure and Improve Quality of Hire in Your Organisation

20

May 2021

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5

minute read

How to complete a skills gap analysis

22

April 2021

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4

minute read

Applied Values: Own and drive change

08

March 2021

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9

minute read

Are the wrong people writing your job descriptions?

25

February 2021

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5

minute read

Applied Values: Creating a fairer world

14

January 2021

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5

minute read

How to beat burnout: 5 tips from Spill therapists

14

December 2020

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6

minute read

7 Reasons to encourage employees to take time off

27

November 2020

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8

minute read

Applied Values: Champion the user

26

November 2020

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8

minute read

Demystifying the difference between recruiting and hiring

30

October 2020

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4

minute read

Applied Values: Trust is our Foundation

28

October 2020

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3

minute read

The business case for Applied

13

October 2020

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17

minute read

Employee Retention: How to reduce employee turnover by 16%

05

October 2020

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5

minute read

The truth about employee referrals: Should you be using them?

02

October 2020

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4

minute read

How to retain the best employees through effective talent management

30

September 2020

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7

minute read

Employment law considerations when conducting an interview

29

September 2020

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5

minute read

Applied Values: Be curious and true to evidence

14

September 2020

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4

minute read

Improving Workplace Culture: How to Build a Happy and Inclusive Workplace

01

September 2020

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11

minute read

Can I use blind hiring for senior roles?

24

August 2020

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5

minute read

Our guide to hiring the best salespeople

06

August 2020

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6

minute read

6 Steps to seamless remote onboarding

05

August 2020

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4

minute read

7 Rapport-building tips for video interviews

04

August 2020

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5

minute read

Use this change management process for successful talent initiatives

03

August 2020

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6

minute read

5 Tips before you pilot anonymous hiring

28

July 2020

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4

minute read

Talent Sourcing and Headhunting: How to attract top talent

27

July 2020

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9

minute read

Careers page best practices: How to attract talent

15

July 2020

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4

minute read

Internal or external recruitment: Which is better?

14

July 2020

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5

minute read

How to recruit talent for a startup

14

July 2020

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5

minute read

How to advertise a job opening: 5 proven, cost-free methods

08

July 2020

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4

minute read

Recruitment or retention: Which is the most cost-effective post-COVID?

02

July 2020

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6

minute read

Churnin’ and burnin’: What is the cost of employee turnover?

18

June 2020

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4

minute read

Hurrah! Applied not only made for smarter and fairer hiring, it also saved a tonne of time - Putting Applied to the test [Part 3]

08

June 2020

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5

minute read

Hiring metrics & reporting: your guide to data driven recruitment

21

May 2020

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19

minute read

Our Guide to the Best Recruitment Metrics

20

May 2020

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5

minute read

Here for the long-run: key strategies for retaining staff

19

May 2020

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5

minute read

What we’ve learned whilst hiring remotely

23

March 2020

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3

minute read

FREE Template: Here's our remote work survey

17

March 2020

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1

minute read

How to recruit talented employees in 2020

03

March 2020

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7

minute read

How much does it cost to hire an employee? 

28

February 2020

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3

minute read

My CV horror story: why I stopped hiring using CVs

21

January 2020

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7

minute read

5 hiring trends set to take 2020 by storm

18

December 2019

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5

minute read

4 Simple, no-nonsense steps to hiring your first developer

10

December 2019

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7

minute read