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An ‘unfair’ advantage is obtained for Recruiters by adding Sapia’s interview automation to Workday with faster, fairer and better hiring results.
As the first gate to employment, the hiring team has a huge influence on candidate experience, diversity and inclusion and overall business success. The way you hire can make someone’s day. It can set your business up to overtake the competition. It can be one step towards designing a fairer world for everyone.
There’s a lot expected of recruiters these days. Attracting candidates from diverse backgrounds and delivering exceptional candidate care whilst selecting from thousands of candidates isn’t easy.
Recruiters are expected to:
The good news is that technology has advanced to support recruiters. Additionally, integrating Sapia artificial intelligence technology with the powerful Workday ATS facilitates a fast, fair, efficient recruitment process that candidates love.
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Gone are the days of screening CVs, followed by phone screens to find the best talent. The number of people applying for each job has grown 5-10 times in size recently. Reading each CV is simply no longer an option. Thus, the attributes that are markers of a high performer often aren’t in CVs and the risk of increasing bias is high.
By sending out one simple interview link, you nail speed, quality and candidate experience in one hit.
Get ahead of your competitors with Sapia’s award-winning chat Ai available for all Workday users. Automate interview, screening, ranking and more, with a minimum of effort. Save time, reduce bias and deliver an outstanding candidate experience.
As unemployment rates rise, it’s more important than ever to show empathy for candidates and add value when we can. Also using Sapia, every single candidate gets a FirstInterview through an engaging text experience on their mobile device, whenever it suits them. Every candidate receives personalised MyInsights feedback, with helpful coaching tips which candidates love.
“I have never had an interview like this in my life and it was really good to be able to speak without fear of judgment and have the freedom to do so.
The feedback is also great. This is a great way to interview people as it helps an individual to be themselves.
The response back is written with a good sense of understanding and compassion.
I don’t know if it is a human or a robot answering me, but if it is a robot then technology is quite amazing.”
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Recruiters love the TalentInsights Sapia surfaces in Workday as soon as each candidate finishes their interview.
Well-intentioned organisations have been trying to shift the needle on the bias that impacts diversity and inclusion for many years, without significant results.
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We agree with renowned marketer Seth Godin: When it comes to creating a good company culture, soft skills (or ‘real’ skills, as he calls them) are more important than the hard or ‘vocational’ skills. “By misdefining ‘vocational’ and focusing on the apparently essential skills,” he argues, “we’ve demised the value of the skills that actually matter. We give too little respect to the other skills when we call them ‘soft’ and imply that they’re optional.”
These real skills seem important when we teach them to our children. In fact, they are critical. You want your prepare your child for the real world with a social toolset that can be applied to all manner of abstract situations: Empathy, curiosity, responsibility, honesty, collaboration, and so on. Conversely, coding is not a staple of the kindergarten curriculum.
We lose this, at some point, when it comes to work. We favour vocational skills in hiring, because they are measurable and attached to output. Of course, this is essential – you want your software engineers to know their keyboards from their Kubernetes – but so too are the real skills, the ones that, if absent, decimate a company’s culture.
Just what are the effects of poor employees on culture? According to a Harvard study of more than 60,000 office workers, 78% said their commitment to the organisation declined when faced with toxic behaviour, while 66% said their performance declined.
Ignoring real skills ruins your culture, and that’s to say nothing of the actual monetary cost of a bad hire. Research from Robert Half (2021) found that a single bad hire can cost an employer anywhere from 15 to 21% of that employee’s salary. Consider, too, that if you hire a bad egg, you’ll probably have to replace other people as well. What Godin says is true: “Culture defeats strategy, every time.”
Our CEO, Barb Hyman, believes that today’s scant talent market will force hiring managers and talent acquisition professionals to rush hiring decisions, and secure talent based purely on vocational skills. This is understandable, because gaps need to be filled, but it will have long-tail impacts.
“If you only hire on the hard skills, are you going to be firing on the soft skills in 12 months? In my experience, that’s what you fire on. When people don’t work out, nine times out of ten, it’s the soft skills. And in 12 months, you’re looking back and saying, ‘I’m not sure about the team we’ve created here, and what we’ve done to our culture’.”
Soft skill matching is particularly important in industries like retail, where employee churn sits at anywhere from 60-70%. Retail staff members move fast and often, and have a high likelihood of migrating to competing businesses. This is partially a nature-of-the-beast problem, but if we better understand what makes people tick, we can better match them to the roles at which they’re likely to succeed, and therefore keep them longer.
For example, we know that the best retail cashiers are high in extraversion. They’re energized by being around people, have good interpersonal skills, and have a lower likelihood of experiencing negative emotion while on the job. It makes sense, then, to prioritize extraversion when matching candidates to the role of cashier. That’s a personality trait – with attendant soft skills – that will predict success for that role.
When people are matched to the job for which they are best suited, they’ll experience higher levels of purpose and satisfaction. It’s obvious why – the daily activities will invigorate rather than drain them. People who have purpose stay longer. Therefore, if you accurately match soft skills to roles, you’ll reduce churn. Our AI Smart Chat Interviewer is really good at this: Across the board, our skill-matching power reduces non-regrettable churn by a minimum of 25%.
If you’re keen to get started measuring soft skills, download our HEXACO job interview rubric. It features more than 20 interview questions designed by our personality psychologists to assess the skills of candidates that come your way. It will even help you figure out what soft skills are best for you based on the needs and values of your organization.
Our AI Smart Chat Interviewer, with its machine learning capabilities, an assess both the soft skills and the cognitive ability of candidates using a structured interview. With the help of HEXACO personality inventory modelling, our Smart Interviewer can determine if a candidate is agreeable, conscientious, honest, open, and more – and its recommendations result in better, fairer hiring outcomes for hiring managers and candidates, every time. The final choice is always yours, but you’re handed a comprehensive shortlist of the best people for you.
Frontier technology that puts people at the heart of their recruitment solution is rewarded for its ground-breaking approach that also solves for bias and reduces recruitment costs.
Melbourne, Australia, September 21 – Sapia, a text-based AI recruitment solution has been recognised globally for its commitment to creating a hiring experience that is empowering and motivating to the individual and which enhances your company’s brand.
The TIARA Talent Tech Star, awarded to Sapia, honours the most exemplary businesses globally in the talent acquisition industry.
Selected from a group of international finalists as a bold and innovative startup, Sapia was deemed top of the class. All for having demonstrated the value and impact of their solution at a time when agency and in-house recruiters are embracing technology and new ways of working.
The Candidate Experience Solution of the Year Award recognised Sapia as
“a matching solution that could fundamentally change the way
candidates experience recruitment, delivering valuable insight to both the
employer and the candidate whether they are recruited or not.”
The judges included the Head of Search & Staffing UK&I and EMEA at LinkedIn, Sales and Marketing Director of ManpowerGroup UK, and Head of Innovation and Transformation at PwC.
Sapia CEO Barb Hyman said the team was honoured to receive industry recognition for their candidate experience solution which was a core pain point that the company solved along with bias and recruitment costs.
“For far too long as an industry HR has failed so many jobseekers by not giving everyone an equal chance to prove themselves and then ghosting those who do make it through to interviews,” Hyman said.
“With Sapia, everyone gets a chat interview and is treated equally by replying to text-based questions on their phone, without any demographic data being used to make hiring decisions.”
She said the company’s goal around candidate experience is to be recognised as the most inclusive recruitment solution at scale. The team has done extensive testing on how different groups respond to chat-based interviews. This includes a range of candidates from a multitude of gender, race and language backgrounds. For these groups, the experience has been transformative. For candidates who might otherwise feel intimidated by a video format feel safe and comfortable interviewing by chat. The demographics collected on this front are only used in reporting for HR leaders against DEI targets, and not in any hiring decisions.
“We hold ourselves to incredibly high standards when it comes to creating an inclusive product, and ultimately it’s placing people at the core of what we do, that sets us apart from others, and makes our solution so successful for our customers.”
The Qantas Group, the Iceland Group, Telefonica, Bunnings and other trusted consumer brands have seen dramatic improvements from applying Sapia to their hiring/ promotion decisions.
Sapia (Formerly PredictiveHire) is a frontier technology solution which solves for three pain points in recruiting: bias; candidate experience, and efficiency. With only five free-text behavioural questions taking around 20 mins, and using over 80 features extracted from the candidate responses, our predictive models assign a “suitability” score to each candidate. To date, 400,000 candidates looking for roles in retail, healthcare, customer service, hospitality, contact centres and graduate roles across 34 countries have experienced Sapia with positive feedback averaging 99%.
Media Contact | Barb Hyman, CEO barb@sapia.ai
Finally, if there was ever a time for our profession to show humanity for the thousands that are looking for work, that time is now.
When I was leading the People & Culture team at the REA Group, my new CEO was passionate about Values, and the central role they play in defining your culture. Following a successful change program to evolve new Values that mirrored the desired Culture, one that would set the business up for continued growth and as a talent magnet, she asked me how we were going to embed those Values through our people processes – who we hire, who we promote, who we reward etc.
It couldn’t be a screen saver pop up or posters on a wall. The values had to be really heard and felt. At the same time, we also had a business that was hiring in the hundreds each year so scaling culture means getting this right.
These are two distinct notions when it comes to hiring: hiring for values and for culture. One should stay pretty fixed, and the other should be dynamic as your business context is always changing. If a company’s values are its bedrock, then a company’s culture is the shifting landscape on top of it. Hiring purely for culture is a recipe for self-reinforcing hiring, aka hiring that is biased. As we all know, innovation comes from the diversity of background/thought/etc, so by hiring only for the culture you can decrease, or even stifle innovation.
Celebrate that just as your product is always evolving, so will your culture. That means people who were great when you were a team of 50 may not be the right person for when you get to 500.
At Sapia we work with our customers to ensure their values are embedded right from the chat interview. This takes many forms, including
No recruiter could ever get that feedback data at the scale and speed to improve their recruitment process. But using Sapia we make a hard decision easier, meaning you can focus on hiring the right people to grow your business, at scale, without sacrificing the candidate experience. And if the VP for a global business focused on connecting people to opportunity can’t recognise bias, it’s a sure sign we need to pay more attention to who, and how, we hire.
“Talent is really distributed very evenly in the world, and opportunity is not.”
So, what do you think? Is your hiring values-driven, or based on the ever-intangible ‘culture-fit’? How do you scale hiring based on values? And how can we in HR, Talent Acquisition and Recruitment support hiring managers to grow innovative, diverse teams?
You can try out Sapia’s Chat Interview right now, or leave us your details to book a demo
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