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Headstart: A recruiting solution for fair early talent hiring

Headstart: A recruiting solution for fair early talent hiring

Fight discrimination, engage diverse future leaders, and improve business performance with a hiring solution designed for early talent teams: Headstart's ATS recruitment software.

Why Headstart?

The last year hasn't been without its hurdles. Hiring managers are navigating a brand-new recruiting landscape amidst heightened pressure on how their teams operate.

Headstart is a recruiting solution for early talent teams held back by outdated hiring processes and legacy ats software, helping HR lead DEI efforts and improve overall business performance.

Recruiters Top Priorities for 2021

  • 1. Bring diversity & inclusion efforts forward

    The societal spotlight on discrimination means organizations must proactively fight bias.

  • 2. Hire with greater precision

    With tight budgets, hiring the right people for each role is crucial as organizations look to compound growth.

  • 3. Fill open roles as efficiently as possible

    Post-lockdown, it's back to basics for many organizations. With cost and efficiency pressures, hiring teams are looking for technology to automate and reduce costs.

Why Headstart?

The last year hasn't been without its hurdles. Hiring managers are navigating a brand-new recruiting landscape amidst heightened pressure on how their teams operate.

Headstart is a recruiting solution for early talent teams held back by outdated hiring processes and legacy ats software, helping HR lead DEI efforts and improve overall business performance.

Recruiters Top Priorities for 2021

  • 1. Bring diversity & inclusion efforts forward

    The societal spotlight on discrimination means organizations must proactively fight bias.

  • 2. Hire with greater precision

    With tight budgets, hiring the right people for each role is crucial as organizations look to compound growth.

  • 3. Fill open roles as efficiently as possible

    Organizations face cost and efficiency pressures, looking to new technology to automate and reduce costs.

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Adrian Love

European Recruitment Director, Accenture
"Headstart has been a key partner in helping us deliver diverse talent into Accenture’s Early Talent Programmes. "The insights that Headstart provides us help us steer our recruitment engagement strategy and it’s intuitive digital approach adds to our unique and innovative propostion. It has had real impact for us at Accenture”

1. Headstart fights discrimination in hiring

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It’s no longer enough to improve diversity. Businesses must actively fight discrimination in their hiring process.

 

For the last few years, the dominant narrative has been to improve diversity by tackling unconscious bias, broader sourcing, leading outreach programs, and externally promoting their support for diversity causes. But the impact has been negligible.

The tide is turning. Business leaders are acknowledging their moral duty to customers, employees, shareholders, and wider society. And now is the time for action. 

Benefits for early talent recruiting teams

  • Fight discrimination

    Actively move past internalized bias on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and background - whilst creating real change. Headstart scores candidates on their true fit against your role, highlighting those with the most potential to succeed.

  • Automate

    Organizations face cost and efficiency pressures, looking to new technology to automate and reduce costs.

  • Hire accurately

    With tight budgets, hiring the right people for each role is crucial as organizations look to compound growth.

  • Isolate and measure bias

    Discover stages in your pipeline that are affected by bias. Headstart’s pipeline analytics can show areas with high drop-off rates for gender and ethnicity.

  • Level the playing field

    Discover stages in your pipeline that are affected by bias. Headstart’s pipeline analytics can show areas with high drop-off rates for gender and ethnicity.

  • Create meaningful change

    Get the information you need to push diversity forward in your hiring process. Integrated analytics show areas of success and opportunities for improvement across your candidate base and pipeline.

1. Headstart fights discrimination in hiring

hiring-disability-1

It’s no longer enough to improve diversity. Businesses must actively fight discrimination in their hiring process.

 

For the last few years, the dominant narrative has been to improve diversity by tackling unconscious bias, broader sourcing, leading outreach programs, and externally promoting their support for diversity causes. But the impact has been negligible.

The tide is turning. Business leaders are acknowledging their moral duty to customers, employees, shareholders, and wider society. And now is the time for action. 

  • Isolate and measure bias

    Discover stages in your pipeline that are affected by bias. Headstart’s pipeline analytics can show areas with high drop-off rates for gender and ethnicity.

  • Level the playing field

    Discover stages in your pipeline that are affected by bias. Headstart’s pipeline analytics can show areas with high drop-off rates for gender and ethnicity.

  • Create meaningful change

    Get the information you need to push diversity forward in your hiring process. Integrated analytics show areas of success and opportunities for improvement across your candidate base and pipeline.

2. Uncover future leaders with Headstart's application tracking software

Hire the "right" talent: candidates with relevant skills and experiences to contribute, develop, and grow your organization for the long-term.

 

The early talent market is more competitive than ever before. Organizations across all industries are now fighting to win the same academically-talented candidates. Teams are struggling with higher candidate and hiring manager expectations, whilst dealing with a growing issue of graduate attrition.

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Benefits for early talent recruiting teams

  • Focus on skills

    Find best-fit candidates, reject irrelevant applications, and speed through screening faster by using machine learning to create unique candidate-role fit scores.

  • Look beyond education & experience

    Assess candidates fairly and contextually, using psychographic data as well as traditional screening points. Analyze role-fit and culture-fit, as well as personal traits, behaviors, and motivations to gain a holistic understanding of each candidate's application.

  • Fight bias & hire fair

    Level the playing field and remove unconscious bias from the process to screen candidates for the right expertise and cultural fit, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, or ethnic status.

  • Grow applications

    Build your talent pool and increase applications from all candidate groups. Headstart's intuitive, time-saving, and mobile-optimized application process enables candidates to easily apply while collecting the vital information that you need for effective screening.

2. Uncover future leaders with Headstart's application tracking software

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Hire the "right" talent: candidates with relevant skills and experiences to contribute, develop, and grow your organization for the long-term.

 

The early talent market is more competitive than ever before. Organizations across all industries are now fighting to win the same academically-talented candidates. Teams are struggling with higher candidate and hiring manager expectations, whilst dealing with a growing issue of graduate attrition.

  • Focus on skills

    Find best-fit candidates, reject irrelevant applications, and speed through screening faster by using machine learning to create unique candidate-role fit scores.

  • Look beyond education & experience

    Assess candidates fairly and contextually, using psychographic data as well as traditional screening points. Analyze role-fit and culture-fit, as well as personal traits, behaviors, and motivations to gain a holistic understanding of each candidate's application.

3. Excel business performance & save costs with Headstart

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Focus on higher-value work, get a better insight into your performance, and reduce time-to-hire by automating manual work. 

 

Early talent is no longer restricted to the few universities you partner with. Talented candidates can apply for your open roles - or they'll apply for your competitors. Recruiting teams need to move faster to win the best talent, but legacy tools are slowing them down.

Benefits for early talent recruiting teams

  • Focus on skills

    Find best-fit candidates, reject irrelevant applications, and speed through screening faster by using machine learning to create unique candidate-role fit scores.

  • Seemless end-to-end integrations

    Embed Headstart into your existing software stack, with integrations into content management systems, assessment providers, and HRIS platforms.

  • Streamlined workflow from screen to hire

    Reduce context-switching and control everything in one place. Move candidates through your process, manage communications, and get insight into pipeline analytics with one platform.

  • Reduce clicks with an intuitive platform

    Move effort wasted on repetitive manual tasks with smart automation and save time with an intuitive, straight-forward applicant tracking system built for the modern recruiter.

3. Excel business performance & save costs with Headstart

diversity hiring software (2)

Focus on higher-value work, get a better insight into your performance, and reduce time-to-hire by automating manual work. 

 

Early talent is no longer restricted to the few universities you partner with. Talented candidates can apply for your open roles - or they'll apply for your competitors. Recruiting teams need to move faster to win the best talent, but legacy tools are slowing them down.

  • Streamlined workflow from screen to hire

    Reduce context-switching and control everything in one place. Move candidates through your process, manage communications, and get insight into pipeline analytics with one platform.

  • Reduce clicks with an intuitive platform

    Move effort wasted on repetitive manual tasks with smart automation and save time with an intuitive, straight-forward applicant tracking system built for the modern recruiter.

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Gareth Williams

Chief Innovation & Transformation Officer, Travelex
Headstart are disrupting recruitment by changing the way companies think about hiring talent. Rather than focusing on grades, education and experience, they concentrate on traits such as high performance and utilise AI models to help organisations recruit talent more efficiently.