Essentials, honestly counted
Requirements that are really preferences are separated out, so the bar is the job rather than the last person who held it.
REWRITTEN BEFORE PUBLICATION
FEATURE 06 / INCLUSIVE HIRING
The sentence that halves your shortlist.
Most exclusion in hiring is accidental and lives in wording. A degree nobody checks, a phrase that reads as an age limit, ten essentials where three would do. Atsifly reads the brief, the advert, the screening questions and the rejection reasons, flags what narrows the pool without a reason in the brief, and records what you decided to do about it.
FLAGGED BEFORE IT PUBLISHESESSENTIALS SEPARATED FROM WISHESEVERY CHANGE RECORDED
WHERE A POOL GETS NARROWED
Three places people drop out before anyone reads them.
Almost none of it is deliberate. It is wording written in a hurry and copied from the last time the role was open.
Language that does not filter
Gender-coded phrasing, age signals and schooling or physical requirements the brief never asked for are flagged with a suggested replacement before publication.
Reasons that hold up
Every rejection reason is checked against a stated requirement, so nobody is turned down for something the role never asked for.
ZOOMED IN / ONE ADVERTTHE PART NOBODY MEANT TO WRITE
Ten essentials, three of which were real.
A team copies last year's advert, adds two lines and publishes. The degree requirement was never in the brief. The driving licence belongs to a version of the role that no longer travels. Neither was discussed, and both quietly remove people who could do the work.
Atsifly reads the advert against the brief you approved, marks what is not supported by it, and offers wording that keeps the standard while widening who can meet it. Whatever you decide is recorded with your name against it.
- Essentials checked against the approved brief
- Gender-coded and age-coded wording flagged with a replacement
- Application steps checked for accessibility
- Pay and role claims matched to what was agreed
- Every accepted and rejected suggestion recorded
WHAT IT TELLS THE TEAM
Whether the pool is narrowing, and where.
A fairness problem is much easier to argue about with a number attached to the step it happened at.
What was caught
Adverts, questions and rejection reasons that failed a check, with the wording that replaced them.
What you kept anyway
Flags a person chose to accept, with the reason given and the name against it.
Where people leave
Application completion by step, so a requirement that quietly costs you candidates is visible.
Ready for the question
A per-role record of what was checked, what changed and what was decided, exportable for a client or a regulator.
CONTACT / TALK TO ATSIFLY
Start with one role.
Tell us which roles you struggle to fill and we will read your last three adverts against the briefs behind them.
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