Ep307: Going Resume-Free to Hire More Inclusively, with Allie Knull

Changing Lenses: Diversify Your Perspectives

Have you ever felt in your job hunt that you’re being judged on something that doesn’t even represent who are you? Or at best, it only represents a very small part of the whole you. And yet “woke” companies are claiming to want employees to bring their “whole selves” to work.

I’m saying it out loud: resumes are a terrible tool for hiring, on both the recruiter and the candidate’s side. There are a million reasons why, but one that really stands out is what a racialized job seeker said to me in the last episode. They said, “the resume doesn’t represent who I am.”

So I was ecstatic to meet a fellow resume rebel in Allie Knull. Allie is the Founder and CEO of ResumeFree™, is a former recruiter, and is “absolutely disgusted” with resumes.

Companies, employers, recruiters – if you mean it when you say you want more diversity in your organization – then please listen to why a tool that was created in the 1950’s, by a workforce of primarily white men, is not going to get you there.

Are you ready? Put your JEDI Visionary lenses on, and let’s go!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• A better way to screen job candidates without using resumes
• Why keyword searches and AI (artificial intelligence) are harmful
• What to watch out for if using tests and assessments
• How to create data and metric based decisions in hiring

Full transcript available here.

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Guest Bio and References/Links

About Allie Knull:

Allie Knull’s passion for talent management has spanned her twenty-year career. Although her career started with international companies, Allie’s recent focus is helping small and scaling business owners master their talent management. Her absolute disgust for resumes was the driving force behind her start-up, ResumeFree™, where they inclusively move top talent from inbox to interview, with their revolutionary screening-as-a-service platform. Allie is a Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) with CPHR Alberta, a Senior Chartered Professional with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP) and a Registered Professional Recruiter (RPR) with the Institute of Professional Management. She is a Top Recruiter™ in Canada 2019 Award winner, placing 10th overall.

Find Allie on:
Website: https://goresumefree.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allieknull/

References and resources in this episode:

• Canadian Literacy Statistics: https://abclifeliteracy.ca/literacy-at-a-glance/
• Book: The Pink Elephant, by Dr. Janice Gassam
• Google Scholar (Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, ...)

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