Taking Out the Bias in HR & Recruiting with Anada Lakra

Today’s interview is with Anada Lakra. Anada is the creative half of day100, a recruiting technology startup. She is focused on product development, marketing, and business development. She is passionate about matching companies to the right talent in a way that is technology-enabled but always human-centered. Her goal is to make recruiting both more data-driven AND more human. In addition to this, she organizes the HR Tech Showcase to bring together the HR community in New York. Anada graduated from Yale University, and was a management consultant in a past life.

We discuss the following:

The beginnings of her company day100
The power of references
How to remove bias in the recruiting process

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Resources

HR Tech Showcase: https://www.meetup.com/HR-Technology-Showcase/events/237376645/

day100: https://www.day100.me

Anada can be reached at anada@day100.me

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