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DentalPost Launches New “SmartView” Feature to Reduce Unconscious Bias in Screening and Hiring

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Posted: September 8, 2021
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ATLANTA—DentalPost, an online and mobile dental job board, recently announced SmartView, a new screening feature to help dental employers expand their candidate pool and find better matches by reducing personal bias in the initial screening process. SmartView helps dental employers stay focused on skills, experience, and assessment insights, rather than a candidate’s physical appearance, age, ethnicity or gender. 

With SmartView on, dental employers can temporarily hide a candidate’s name and photo while evaluating professional background and training. This process helps the hiring manager set aside their personal preferences and unconscious biases while reviewing the qualities that are most important to them in a potential hire. Once the employer is ready, they can rate the profile to reveal the candidate’s full profile details, including names and photos. 

“DentalPost has long been trusted and recognized as the first and biggest dental job board, focusing exclusively on the hiring and career needs of dental professionals,” said Tonya Lanthier, RDH, DentalPost founder and CEO. “We strive to also be the most fair job board, helping level the playing field for job seekers while positioning dental practices and dental service organizations to thrive by changing old ways of thinking and hiring that may not serve them anymore. With SmartView, we’re helping hiring managers get out of their own way in order to find the best matches for their practice and their team.” 

DentalPost regularly conducts nationwide surveys and reports on dental employment trends and issues to inform and educate the industry. Even before the pandemic, which further impacted an already stretched labor force, DentalPost’s industry surveys pointed to a lack of diversity on dental teams, including age, gender and race. 

Between an aging talent pool and majority female teams (93%), most of whom are not the main breadwinner of the family or who chose dental hygiene careers for the flexibility of raising families according to DentalPost’s 2020 dental salary survey report, the pandemic sped up the decision for many who have opted to leave the industry or retire early and left an already tight labor pool even tighter. SmartView encourages hiring managers to look at each candidate’s merits before looking at their ethnicity, gender, age, or appearance, thereby expanding the candidate pool in the initial screening process. 

“Most people think of diversity hiring as a subtractive process where the potential candidate pool is narrowed down to focus on diverse candidates, but that’s not it at all,” added Lanthier. “DentalPost’s new SmartView feature is actually an additive process, where the candidate pool stays at its maximum size while all initial screening is completed based on the details that make for a great hire. Only after the reveal does a more subtractive candidate screening process begin.” 

For more information, visit dentalpost.net/smartview. 
 
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