Blind Recruiting for the purpose of Inclusion & Diversity

[former_member84756]

We are investigating options for blind recruiting. The purpose is to remove any unconscious bias from our selection.

We are able to limit the view in Success Factors so that the hiring leader cannot see name, email and gender in the job req however we are wondering how other companies approach hiding details like he/she, name, email, linkedin profile address from attached documents especially with CV's from agencies being written in a 3rd party perspective.

[alessandroarc4]

I was reading some SAP pages regarding accessibility for persons with disabilities and I also reached this Q&A page.

My daughter in law would attend an SAP academy in SAP finance (or any other module) but as she is blind is facing Insurmountable difficulties to find a suitable path to get into a course of study designed for blinds.

We actually tried together to use training material in the "sap learning hub" but is very difficult to use through "Jaws" as navigation is very complex for a blind person and each course inside has videos with images that are not readable for Jaws. But let me say that there are also many other problems reading training materials using Jaws (Jaws is one of the standard software that "reads screen pages" to the blind).

We also think that paying fees to register to sap live access systems should be done once we are sure that SAP transactions could be used through JAWS.

Today many employers that can hire people with disabilities but adopted SAP systems and people with blindness are cut off without capabilities to use an SAP system at all level: user, expert user etc.

my question is does anyone has knowledge about specific paths that SAP has provided to enable a blind person to study the sap academy? is there a specific team or email for this purpose?

We weren't able to find it by ourselves so apparently, It seems that this something that was not planned or considered at all.

Employer adoption of SAP system is creating a big barrier to get to work for young blind people that cannot educate themselves to use new technologies.

I would appreciate any suggestion.

Thanks

Alessandro

[Thomas_03]

Hello,

I realize this is an older thread but as the DEI world is rapidly evolving in todays market, was curious if anyone knows of a bolt on tool for SuccessFactors that may be able to help with the blind recruiting process? Honestly, surprised SAP/SF still hasnt implemented this as this seems like a hot topic, even more so today than years past.

Thank you,

Thomas

[former_member84756]

Haven't yet found a platform to use at this end. Mind you we have had this on the back burner waiting for something to pop up.

[Thomas_03]

smiffy I found a thread in my research later this morning that Hiredscore and Plum are two suggested bolt on ATS vendors that can help with blind recruiting. We will be setting up demos with both in the near future.

Thomas

[former_member84756]

Thanks Thomas, I will also be looking into some demos for these. Fingers crossed, thank you.

[Thomas_03]

Hi Alison thought I would let you know our organization decided to go with MeVitae as they checked all the boxes we were looking for. We are in the very early stages of starting this project and nothing has been configured. Not sure we have even signed the contract agreement yet but know it is going through all our new vendor red tape LOL.

[LindseyLW]

I've found this today - seems the idea to support blind recruitment needs to be supported for SAP to consider actioning. Log in to the Customer Influence site and search for 240848. Improvement Request Details - Customer Influence (sap.com).

Looks like the more support we can get, hopefully SAP will take notice!

[former_member18241]

Hello Alison - have you heard about the SAP tool called Brilliant Hire? Sounds like it would be exactly what you are looking for! https://www.brillianthire.io/

[silviagilarde]

Hi Tina, can you confirm that this SF extension supports blind CVs? Or is there any other extension that does? Thank you!

[former_member84756]

Hi Tina, how are you finding 'brillianthire'? Are you still using it? Are you able to share CV's to leaders in your business without the identifying information on this platform?

Thanks

Alison

[former_member84756]

Hello Tom

You are the first person who has responded to this question since posting. I have not successfully been able to find an answer to this issue as yet so am keeping my ears open for anything that comes up.

[former_member57092]

Hi Alison, sorry this isn't an answer but rather a question of how did you get on with your investigation. I to believe in the business i work for we need to cut out all unconscious bias from recruiting. So far the hiring manager can see name, email and CV's and i want this to not be visible.

How did you limit the view in Success Factors so they couldn't see the data but still able to review applications?

Thank you