Diversity Filters
We know diverse teams do better work, are happier, and directly improve the bottom line. Diversity has never been more important, yet many organizations struggle to create diverse representation in enterprise, technology, and leadership roles.
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SeekOut's Diversity Filters allow you to find talent from historically underrepresented groups with a single click.
Many organizations struggle to create diverse representation in enterprise, technology, and leadership roles. We know diverse teams do better work, are happier, and directly improve the bottom line.
SeekOut is committed to enabling our customers to take actionable, specific steps to improve diversity in their organizations by finding and including highly qualified, diverse candidates in their recruiting pipelines.
Searching for Diverse Candidates
Find diverse candidates by applying a Diversity Filter on any search, or click on the various diversity categories shown within People Insights.
Go to SeekOut search and select the Public Profile tab at the top of the page.
From your search page, locate the Diversity Tags section to the left of your search results. Check the box next to one or more diverse groups to apply that filter to your search.
By default, selecting more than one diversity filter will show you candidates with either diversity tag. You can toggle the Candidates with both tags switch to only see candidates who have all of the diversity tags you have selected.
You can also apply a diversity filter while viewing Insights about your search. Click on a section of the graph to immediately apply that filter to your search results.
Benefits to using Diversity Filters
Legacy diversity sourcing methods have been largely in-person, or limited to using basic search criteria like name or school. These approaches have proven to be slow, inefficient, and inherently biased.
SeekOut's Talent Search Engine allows you to instantly find twice as many highly-qualified, diverse candidates.
Build a diverse recruiting funnel: SeekOut’s diversity filters for Women, Hispanic, Asian, Black or African American, and Veteran candidates deliver twice as many candidates as other tools.
Understand the diverse representation of different talent pools: Deeply analyze diversity at the company, location, or role/skill level to build an actionable D&I recruiting strategy.
Results you can trust: SeekOut AI delivers the highest number of diverse candidates, with results that are highly precise (the most accurate inferences) and have high recall (the largest number of results).
Curb unconscious bias: With SeekOut's Bias Reducer Mode, focus your sourcing on experience and skills by hiding information related to gender, race, or ethnicity.
What are SeekOut's Diversity Filters?
Women: available in all indexes
Black or African American*: United States, North America (Non-US), Europe
Hispanic: United States
Asian: United States, North America (Non-US), Europe, Africa, Oceania, South America
Veteran: United States
*The term African American is used exclusively in the United States index.
SeekOut Diversity features are designed to help recruiting teams take action to improve organizational diversity by finding and including highly qualified, diverse candidates in the recruiting pipeline.
Additional Information
Inferring Candidate Diversity
Candidates don't typically list their diversity status online. SeekOut has created machine learning classifiers which use a large number of attributes found on candidate profiles – including names, educational history, group membership, terms used on their profile, and others – to make a best guess of the diversity status of each candidate.
Using tagged training data, the classifier builds a model which predicts diversity status based on the attributes of the candidate's profile. We use test data to verify that the models are performing well and regularly retrain the models.
We aim to maximize precision (did we correctly match the candidate's diversity status?) and recall (did we find most of the available candidates?). Our current precision and recall is above 90% meaning our classifiers are very accurate and we find the vast majority of candidates for each diversity category.
Customization Opportunities
SeekOut's diversity filters can be customized to meet the needs of our enterprise customers. These customizations can include deploying new diversity filters for additional hard-to-find candidates (e.g., Native Americans or candidates with disabilities), customizing our existing filters, or even removing or limiting diversity filters to adhere to corporate policies.
If you're interested in customized diversity filters for your organization, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or email support@seekout.com.