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What did 100% of our team do before applying for Boldly? Here's a quick tip from Recruitment Manager Devin Drake that is guaranteed to improve your application.👇

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂? It’s a recruiter’s daily dilemma. You put in the effort, craft the perfect pitch, but the response is often a polite “no thanks.”   𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁!   For more such recruiting insights, follow Rytso today.

Bias can manifest in various ways in the hiring process (that's why we have protocols to identify and mitigate unconscious bias in our recruitment and sourcing processes). In this 90-second video, Luke Watters, Senior Recruitment Consultant – Sales & Marketing, shares a personal example of a bias he overcame as a recruiter and some valuable insight — check it out! 👇

Just finished the Recruiting Foundations course by Barbara Bruno! Ready to apply these new skills and insights to elevate the recruitment processes. 

It's great to remember that not every candidate has the same opportunities. Not everyone can attend the Ivy League school. Not everyone actually has the opportunity to work in an enterprise-level company in their field due in their small, home-town area. Not everyone can move. While many companies are hiring remotely now, this has really only been the case for a short time in most industries. Not everyone has a boss who shares information and metrics that an employee can use to support competency on their resume (especially true in small businesses). For those who love to look at job titles to gauge fitness for a position, not only do many companies (especially small ones) call their internal positions something different than what others in the industry might call it, but the valuable person at a small company will most likely be wearing many "hats" and gaining many competencies outside of their "job title". A "Scrapper" status candidate who attended a community college doesn't necessarily stop learning, stop growing their skill set, or stop staying up to date on the latest happenings in their field. In fact, they may be incentivized to do so. At the very least, scrappers deserve the interview.

Hire the scrapper. I always love reading unconventional CVs, people who have done all sorts of things in life. In the Swiss job market, these candidates struggle to find themselves top of the list. So why do I like hiring them? They are creative and can think out of the box. They are resilient and adapt easily to all sorts of situations. Uncertainty doesn’t rock them, they don’t need a clear-cut path and tend to go more with the flow. These individuals are gems for new (or fairly new) businesses. Who would you hire? The silver spoon or the scraper? Leave a comment below.

As a current college student, I definitely find myself to be “the Scrapper.” Life growing up hasn’t been easy. Yet, I try and strive for success and find my potential! Regina Hartley’s words are definitely effective and very insightful! Quite frankly, society should stop comparing people based on factors Hartley describes in the video. Somethings in our lives are cannot be chosen for us but rather societically oppressed upon us. We are born into economic systemic failures! As employers, we seek a meaningful job so we can overcome it. A struggle I have found is that employers often don’t look past the paper (resume). Us “Scrappers” deserve an interview as it can display to you the employer, who we truly are beyond our education, previous employments, etc. so that we can showcase what we can really bring! #lookbeyondthepaper #scrappersdeserve

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Not a perfect assessment, as I’ve met many “Scrappers” that fought their way to great schools and maintained great grades while working many jobs to support themselves or their families. But I 100% agree with hiring the Scrapper. (And not just because I am one!) ❓How do you identify the Scrappers for your organization? The folks that are filled with passion and purpose, who may have been underestimated, but have all the qualifications and more to excel? ❓And to my fellow Scrappers, how do you stand out in the interview process? #hiring #jobhunt #underestimated #DEI

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