Disruption Interruption podcast host and veteran communications disruptor, Karla Jo Helms, recently sat down with DE&I consultant Gem Garcia to find out how she is disrupting the difficult-to-navigate automated corporate job application process.
(Tampa Bay, FL) Month XX, 2023 – Estimates are that 99% of Fortune 500 companies use automated hiring systems in some capacity. While they are necessary to wade through the vast pool of applications that companies receive, HR professionals worry that filters may be disqualifying great candidates. Machine learning and programming for algorithms can draw unintended conclusions ─ and prevent matches between qualified candidates and hiring managers. (1)
Enter disruptor Gem A. Garcia, founder of Corporate in Colour Consulting, who explains to Karla Jo Helms, the host of the Disruption/Interruption podcast, how she empowers job candidates to present what makes them uniquely marketable in a tangled, increasingly automated corporate recruiting process.
Garcia interjects “I don’t hold back any punches…I won’t sugar coat it. That’s not going to get you the results you want.” She and Karla Jo discuss how her insight into the industry and passion to empower individuals helps them navigate to success.
Key takeaways:
- How job seekers or candidates can change the current HR recruitment narrative
- What HR is looking for during the hiring process
- Intangible aspects that help companies attract and keep talent
- How a company can be able to attract the right kind of talent to join their team
- The kind of qualities that you want HR to see on your resume
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About Disruption Interruption:
Disruption is happening on an unprecedented scale, impacting all manner of industries — MedTech, Finance, IT, eCommerce, shipping and logistics, and more — and COVID has moved their timelines up a full decade or more. But WHO are these disruptors, and when did they say, "THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD IT!"? Time to Disrupt and Interrupt with host Karla Jo "KJ" Helms, veteran communications disruptor. KJ interviews bad a**es who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have become antiquated with an establishment resistant to progress. She delves into uncovering secrets from industry rebels and quiet revolutionaries that uncover common traits — and not-so-common — that are changing our economic markets … and lives. Visit the world's key pioneers that persist to success, despite arrows in their backs at http://www.disruptioninterruption.com
About Karla Jo Helms:
Karla Jo Helms is the Chief Evangelist and Anti-PR® Strategist for JOTO PR Disruptors™.
Karla Jo learned firsthand how unforgiving business can be when millions of dollars are on the line — and how the control of public opinion often determines whether one company is happily chosen, or another is brutally rejected. Being an alumnus of crisis management, Karla Jo has worked with litigation attorneys, private investigators, and the media to help restore companies of goodwill into the good graces of public opinion — Karla Jo operates on the ethic of getting it right the first time, not relying on second chances and doing what it takes to excel. Helms speaks globally on public relations, how the PR industry itself has lost its way and how, in the right hands, corporations can harness the power of Anti-PR to drive markets and impact market perception.
About Gem A. Garcia:
Gem A. Garcia, founder of Corporate in Colour Consulting, is a DE&I consultant. Her approach is holistic, customized specifically to each individual and anything but cookie-cutter. As a former recruiter who has consulted companies on creating hiring procedures and building new teams, she knows what it takes to navigate the hiring processes. She helps bring candidate’s skills to light, so they can relay them with confidence. She works with people on all aspects of their career strategy, from personal branding and career goals to resume customization and interview style.
References:
- Vickery, Sarah. “Automated Hiring Systems Could be Making the Worker Shortage Worse”, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Report, 01 July 2022, uwm.edu/news/automated-hiring-systems-could-be-making-the-worker-shortage-worse/.
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