Angela Antony: From The Whitehouse to Removing Bias from Hiring
Angela Antony is the Founder and CEO of Scoutible, the world\u2019s first game-based hiring platform, which uses machine learning to track soft skills through gameplay and uncover the best candidates for a job. Angela spent nine years at Harvard, focusing her psychology, business, and law degrees on labor market issues across society. After Harvard, she worked at the White House under Obama as part of the National Economic Council. \n\nDuring that time, she was writing a book about her Harvard research titled Invisible Handcuffs, which ultimately became the primary research underlying Scoutible. Scoutible was recently named one of Inc Magazine\u2019s 8 Most Innovative Startups of the Year, and Angela was named to Inc\u2019s Female Founders 100 list.\n\nThis Episode\u2019s Heavy-hitter\u2019s:\n\nBefore she started Scoutable, Angela launched a startup called Beanstockd Media, which taught her \u201cinvaluable lessons on what NOT to do in a startup.\u201d Although she felt it was a failure at the time, she now looks back at it as a huge accelerator for what she\u2019s doing at Scoutable.\n\nAngela met Mark Cuban while working with the National Economic Council at the White House. He convinced her to create a company to solve the problems she was studying in the labor market instead of finishing the book she was writing on the subject.\n\nPart of what motivated Angela\u2019s work with Scoutible and removing bias from the hiring process was a study in which identical resumes were presented to hiring managers, with only the names changed. The African American names performed 50% worse than their white counterparts, even though all other information and qualifications were exactly the same.\n\nScoutible develops a predictive model to choose who to hire and for what role by having an entire organization complete its games and surveys. This process helps to remove the typical biases that might limit opportunities for some while overpromoting others that might not actually be the best fit.\n\nBesides eliminating bias, Angela sees Scoutible to be of utmost importance because more people than ever are searching for purpose within their jobs. With this tool, there\u2019s a much more streamlined process to find your correct fit.\n\nTo learn more, please visit https://www.scoutible.com/\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review:\xa0 \xa0https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast\n\n#thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at\xa0Interseller\xa0\u2013 the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Whether you\u2019re doubling down on business development or recruiting talent, Interseller does all the heavy lifting of finding contact data, automating the email and follow-up process, and syncs all that rich data into 20+ CRMs and ATSs. Reach out and get going in a 2-week *free* trial today and let them know you heard about them from Adam on #thePOZcast.\n\nCheck out a free demo today!\xa0https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ\n\nFor more, please visit www.thePOZcast.com