The End of Affirmative Action: Reflections on the Implications for DEI Recruiting and Hiring
Recently Emmanuel “Manny” Contomanolis, Director, Mignone Center for Career Success, Harvard University, and Nicky Garcea, Co-Founder and CEO, Cappfinity moderated The End of Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Implications for DEI Recruiting and Hiring, a webinar in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action. The session featured a panel of leading voices in […]
Cappfinity and Clients Sweep the Awards: Celebrating Success and Excellence in 2023
Cappfinity is honored to be recognized with awards for our work with clients to advance assessment and selection, upskilling, and talent attraction using virtual reality (VR). These awards highlight joint efforts to improve early career hiring and the candidate experience. Here is a summary of the recent wins: Best Assessment and Selection, Institute of Student […]
Unleashing the Power of Early Career Talent: Pre-skilling Preparation to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In today’s competitive job market, the path to success for early career talent, especially from underserved populations often hinges on their ability to navigate the attraction, application, and recruitment process. In fact, research suggests that many female and other underserved potential candidates discount themselves from applying for jobs, often because they feel they don’t have […]
How Nestle and Zurich transformed candidate experience through assessment
The greatest candidate experiences have the power to both enhance an employer’s brand and secure the very best talent. Nestlé UK & Ireland and Zurich explain how they transformed candidate experience through assessment. The Institute of Student Employers (ISE) got together with early career experts, Fiona Samouelle and Carmel Blair, from Cappfinity; Evelyn Bate from […]
3 Tips to Improve your Interviewing in 2023
Talent Practice Co-Director, Celine Floyd recently spoke to CIPD magazine about best practice for selection and interviewing. Here she shares some of her top insights. Interviews have become the go-to-method for assessing talent, and although they are good for being face to face with someone, they are also loaded with the risk of bias, whilst the […]
Gen Z want to understand your culture – Here’s how to bring it to life!
Office perks, dress down Fridays and free breakfasts. In days gone by, these were the things that often constituted a good office culture. Graduates today, however, are looking for something far more tangible, a healthy culture means space to grow, a good work life balance and the freedom to be themselves. According to Deloitte’s 2021 […]
5 takeaways from the ISE’s EDI Conference
ISE’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) event focused on how we can move from aspiration to action, explains Dr Reena Jamnadas from Cappfinity. In his powerful keynote address, Lee Elliot Major OBE, Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, described our sector’s focus on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as the ‘climate change challenge’ of our time. For me, this very much reflected […]
Reimagining the OCI Process: What we learned from the pandemic
This article was originally published in the ABA Journal on September 3, 2022 On-campus interviews (OCI) have long been a staple of law firm recruiting. But when the pandemic hit, law firms, like everyone else, had to adapt by taking this time-honored tradition virtual—in many cases with great success. Despite the massive disruption of the […]
Strengths, Skills, and Helping Students Navigate Rewarding Careers
At Cappfinity we pride ourselves on research, testing, and scientific rigor across our entire portfolio. This approach guides our consultative relationships with our more than 250 clients across the globe including colleges and universities. For over 16 years we have been on a mission to help people understand their natural skills or strengths along side […]
Exploring Early Careers as Activists
Cappfinity recently partnered with the ISE to deliver a webinar on the role of Early Careers as Activists. Hosted by Stephanie Hopper, Co-Director of Cappfinity’s Talent Practice and Stephen Isherwood, Chief Executive Officer at the Institute for Students (ISE), they were joined by an esteemed panel of Early Careers experts from industry and education, as […]
