Recruiting without prejudice

The new Job Analyzer offers companies the opportunity to further integrate diversity and inclusion into key talent management decisions. It integrates with SuccessFactors Recruiting to support business goals for talent management, using machine learning algorithms to ensure gender-neutral language in recruiting.

Companies can use this new feature to expand their talent pool and target the best candidates for each position. It leverages Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities to help managers and recruiters identify and avoid gender bias in job description wording.

This ensures a larger, more diverse applicant pool and allows executives to reach the most qualified candidates for each job. Using external data, hiring managers can analyze competitiveness and salary ranges, and ensure gender-neutral language in job descriptions to more comprehensively address the global skills shortage.

"Many companies still show unconscious bias in their hiring processes. This prevents them from finding the best qualified employees"

Greg Tomb, president of SAP SuccessFactors, said.

"We're introducing digital innovation with machine learning to help HR teams gain new insights across all HR processes and, in this case, make unbiased hiring decisions.

With the Job Analyzer, managers are even better able to attract and hire the best talent, increasing the benefits to the company."

SAP is also expanding its Business Beyond Bias initiative to promote gender equity so companies can optimize existing capabilities across the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite to eliminate bias.

"Diversity among employees worldwide is steadily increasing. Every day, more and more people with different knowledge and perspectives are entering the labor market."

Lisa Rowan, research vice president, HR, Talent and Learning Strategies at IDC, said.

"At the same time, companies around the world must address the growing skills shortage. With these tools available across the SuccessFactors HCM Suite, customers can even better avoid biases that prevent them from attracting, selecting, hiring and promoting the best professionals."

These new capabilities are available across all SAP SuccessFactors solutions to help organizations overcome unconscious bias throughout the employee lifecycle.

Already available are:

Calibration: Enhancements in Successfactor's Performance & Goals include calibration without photos and calibration analysis by rules of multiplicity, such as integrated 9-box model descriptions that ensure consistent, equitable standards in assessing performance, potential, and eligibility for promotion.

Mentoring: SuccessFactors Succession & Development features enable HR to match mentors with mentees based on skills and competencies to ensure equitable and inclusive mentoring.

Personnel analyses: The data analytics capabilities in SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics enable organizations to highlight areas where diversity and inclusion goals have not yet been met, and visualize and predict trends accordingly. Managers can gain better insight into their diversity and inclusion efforts.