Angela Hood

Angela Hood, a serial entrepreneur from Austin, Texas, developed Ai4JOBS after years of research, development, and incubation at the University of Cambridge ideaSpace in England. Now operating across the world, ‘Ai4JOBS by ThisWay’ provides employers, recruiters, and staffing agencies with a suite of solutions that delivers unbiased job-to-candidate matching technology. ThisWay’s acclaimed technology and ethics-based methodologies help both businesses and individuals find greater success in the job world, through matching that matters. Hood’s passion around building unbiased technology was born from her own experience working as a field engineer and project manager in the construction and land development industries. She is a business and recognized thought leader in the fields of artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the ROI of diversity. Her groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and de-biasing is often referenced in international research and is featured in a Simon & Schuster book being released in August 2019.

7 Biggest Diversity Issues in The Workplace

March 14, 2024July 14, 2017 by Angela Hood

Workforce recruitment companies always battle diversity issues every day. While some believe that diversity in the workplace is as simple as meeting the required quotas for employee race and gender, it’s much, much more than that. That’s why we’ve compiled what we believe to be the 7 biggest diversity issues in the workplace that employers … Read more

4 Warning Signs Your Recruitment Strategy Is Headed for Failure

November 26, 2022July 6, 2017 by Angela Hood

Recruiters and HR professionals sometimes focus on the wrong tactics and use inefficient recruitment platforms. This results in steep recruitment costs, lengthy recruitment processes, and ultimately, employee retention problems.

How to Stop These 16 Biases That Can Influence Your Hiring Decision [Infographic]

November 26, 2022June 27, 2017 by Angela Hood

How to Eliminate These 16 Biases That Can Influence Your Hiring Decision

Hiring exceptional talents depends on an objective workforce recruitment process. However, most hiring practices are laden with different unconscious biases, and companies are spending big money to eliminate recruitment biases to boost diversity and foster inclusiveness in the workplace. But why do diversity and inclusion matter?

How to Solve the Top 5 Problems Faced by Recruiters Today

November 26, 2022May 12, 2017 by Angela Hood

Modern-day recruiters face a new set of challenges stemming from a variety of factors. There’s the pressure of keeping abreast with fast-changing technologies. In some nations, an aging population is a trend that recruiters and businesses have to contend with, not to mention several underlying factors in the social and economic landscape.

ThisWay Global launches strategic partnership with HireAbility to power recruitment with Artificial Intelligence

January 31, 2023May 5, 2017 by Angela Hood

ThisWay Global, a Cambridge-based technology company that has launched a software platform powered by machine learning for the recruitment industry, has joined forces with HireAbility, the provider of smart resume and CV parsing technology, to provide an automated intelligence (AI) powered job vacancy matching service without equal in the recruitment industry.

This partnership will combine two sophisticated products. HireAbility’s parsing technology makes human language understandable by computers and is highly compatible with ThisWay’s new AI-driven product ‘Match-ic’™, which is ‘matching as a service’ for the hiring market.

Normal Hiring Process VS Machine Learning Recruitment: A Comparison Guide

April 26, 2023April 20, 2017 by Angela Hood

Most companies and businesses invest a lot of time, money, and human resources in finding the perfect talents for an open position. A huge portion of the recruitment budget goes into a variety of hiring strategies such as posting job advertisements both online and offline and contracting more headhunters and recruitment consultants.A survey by the … Read more

8 Critical Recruiting Facts That Will Make You Rethink Your Hiring Strategy

November 26, 2022March 15, 2017 by Angela Hood

Sourcing candidates for a job is never an easy task for both the HR department of companies and head hunters. Typically, the recruitment process goes from identifying the vacancy, preparing the job description, sourcing of databases, role marketing, short-listing of candidates, interviewing applicants, and reference checking, to the actual job offer. It’s a long and complicated process, which is why companies enlist the help of head hunters for recruitment solutions.

SXSW 2017: What We’re Looking Forward To

January 31, 2023March 1, 2017 by Angela Hood

Every year, South by Southwest (SXSW) brings people from all kinds of industries together to throw one of the country’s most anticipated creative conferences. SXSW describes itself as an event put together to “celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries.”

A look at this year’s schedule shows the abundance of panels, parties, talks, and exhibits. It might seem a bit intimidating at first, with hundreds of listings for artists, films, and discussions filling the 10-day event that takes place in Austin, TX from March 10 to 19.

Why Diversity and Inclusion Are More Important Than Ever

November 26, 2022February 27, 2017 by Angela Hood

In less than a hundred days of being sworn into office, United States President, Donald Trump, has already signed three strict executive orders related to immigration. One policy, in particular, restricts all immigrants from seven Muslim countries and indefinitely bars all Syrian refugees from entering the US.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Other Sectors

November 26, 2022February 13, 2017 by Angela Hood

Artificial Intelligence has undoubtedly played an important role towards enhancement of the performance and accuracy of our daily duties. It doesn’t only help in saving time and costs for businesses, but also help in the transformation of operations in different sectors.

In a conference entitled “Artificial Intelligence in the World of Work”, Angela Hood of our team shared her insights on AI and here are some main takeaways to learn from her talk.