{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"People Analytics","title":"Making the Hiring Process More Efficient and Effective with HireReach’s Marlene Brostrom","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1707,"description":"In this episode, HireReach’s Project Manager Marlene Brostrom talks about the benefits of the skills-based hiring model, the ways employers make hiring decisions, and how to reduce bias in the hiring process.\n\nMarlene Brostrom is a Project Manager at West Michigan Works! where she oversees, plans and directs various aspects of the HireReach program including program design.\n\nMarlene is a Certified Business Solutions Professional with over 10 years of experience managing and delivering programs in workforce and community development.. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of People Analytics:\n\nHow to make the hiring process more efficient and effective.\nWhat a skills-based hiring model looks like.\nWhat’s been causing changes in the labor market.\nThe ways employers make hiring decisions.\nThe importance of qualifications when getting hired.\nHow skills-based hiring helps reduce bias.\nInterviewing techniques to avoid bad hires.\nThe partnership between HR and talent acquisition.\nHow to leverage your organizational culture.\n\nResources:\nHireReach\nWest Michigan Works!\nOpportunity@Work\nStaffGeek\n\nConnect with Marlene Brostrom:\nLinkedIn\n\nConnect with the host:\nLindsay Patton on LinkedIn\nLindsay Patton by Email\nQuotables:\n1:08 - “Skills-based hiring is a good quick high-level term to explain what it is but it’s essentially helping employees with the decision of selecting talent using skills as a way to assess and measure people and really help the organization understand what makes a good fit for their workforce, for their jobs.”\n07:50 - “Harvard Business Review shared that 60 percent of the US workforce does not have a 4-year degree, 76 percent of black workers do not have a degree, 83 percent of Latin Ex workers do not have a 4-year degree, and 81 percent of rural workers do not have a degree and that’s really important to say there’s all these people that have different backgrounds, different learning experience that may still have the skills needed...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LZiH28Fqv554cP0YOC3mUlECfkMXgmHH_FevGjudEbE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5NDQ5LzE2Mzg4/OTcwODUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}