Leveraging Technology to Remove Bias and Diversify Your Pipeline
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is no longer a “nice-to-have” but a business imperative. Although the business case for having a diverse workforce provides a huge advantage to companies, there are challenges that must be overcome. This session will tackle the Bias in Hiring and offer solutions for employers to diversify their workforce & reduce bias in hiring by leveraging Artificial Intelligence and HR technology.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover how bias kills diversity.
- See how carefully designed and properly used artificial intelligence can help eliminate implicit bias in recruiting.
- Learn how redacting information from resumes – names, address, college name, or graduation date – can help mitigate implicit bias, race and class discrimination, and ageism in the selection and hiring process.
- Learn how making job postings more inclusive and debiasing job descriptions can help you surface a more diverse pool of active and passive job seekers.
- Learn best practices for diversifying your pipeline and making your candidate evaluation process more inclusive.
Roselle Rogers
Roselle Rogers, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Circa™ with responsibility for leading its DEI strategy and thought leadership initiatives. She is a subject matter expert in HR/OFCCP Compliance and diversity and frequently speaks on these topics at various HR conferences and webinars. Prior to this role, Rogers was responsible for the company’s OFCCP compliance operations for its federal contractor clients. She has more than 30 years of HR experience and holds senior level professional certifications with HRCI and SHRM. She currently serves as the Vice President and Secretary of the Milwaukee Industry Liaison Group (ILG), a member of the Chicago ILG, a presenter on the Circa OFCCP webinar series, is the lead editor of the Circa publication, The OFCCP Digest, and an in-house expert on the online forum Ask the Experts. Roselle has served as a Director on the Metro Milwaukee (MM) SHRM Board, chaired the MM SHRM Certification Committee, and facilitated the SHRM SPHR/PHR Certification course for three years.
Michelle Jackson
Michelle Jackson is an enthusiastic wearer of many hats who found her calling as a Product leader. After an early career in social service work following earning a Liberal Arts degree from Rockford University, and spending over 20 years in the Insurance Technology field, Michelle heads up Product Management for Circa – bringing her love of problem solving to work towards a mission dear to her heart, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Outside of work you can either find Michelle performing operations and marketing functions for her son’s growing cabinetmaking company, reading, hiking, or listening to music by Prince. Michelle is also a member of a multigenerational home, and she and her family are all avid Milwaukee Bucks fans. Go Bucks!