Topic
Fairness
Articles on Fairness from the CalHire team: verified skills, anonymous-first hiring, and documented hiring process.
Blind hiring: what the evidence supports, and what it does not
Blind hiring has one of the cleanest natural experiments in labour economics behind it, and real limits. What it fixes, and what it cannot.
July 30, 2026
Why candidates get ghosted, and how to actually stop
Ghosting is almost never malice. It is what happens when closing the loop is optional, unowned and manual. The four structural causes, and the fix for each.
July 30, 2026
The EU AI Act and hiring: what recruitment teams are responsible for
AI used to recruit or evaluate candidates is high-risk under the EU AI Act. What that means for employers, what providers owe you, and what to ask vendors.
July 30, 2026
The four-fifths rule: how to test your hiring for adverse impact
The four-fifths rule is a rule of thumb, not a legal safe harbour. How to calculate it, where it misleads, and how to find the stage causing the disparity.
July 30, 2026
The biases that actually change hiring outcomes
Awareness training does not fix bias. A guide to the biases that measurably move hiring decisions, and the process change that neutralises each one.
July 30, 2026
What "meaningful human oversight" actually requires
A reviewer who rubber-stamps 200 rankings is not oversight. What regulators mean by meaningful human involvement, and how to build a process that holds up.
July 30, 2026
Name-blind recruitment: the weakest form of blind hiring
Name-blind screening is the most adopted and least effective form of blind hiring. What a name signals, what survives redaction, and what to do instead.
July 30, 2026
How to write rejection feedback that is actually useful
Most rejection feedback is either a form letter or a risk. How to write something specific and safe, using the scores you already have.
July 30, 2026
Why we deleted the résumé
The résumé rewards pedigree and is trivial to embellish. Here is the case for a verified, portable skills profile that proves what someone can actually do.
June 12, 2026