EmployNeutral

The presentation of EmployNeutral was very impressive and had a good concept behind it. The most intriguing aspect of this idea was the elimination of the initial bias that is common in hiring in the workplace. EmployNeutral offers a solution to workplace discrimination through their website, which would showcase an individual's qualifications for a position, but would hide their name, gender, race, and other such aspects which could be used against them. The presenters also mentioned that employers could use this website to find suitable candidates and interview them on the EmployNeutral website, which was another appealing quality of the site.

However, the issue of bias in the workplace was not completely solved by EmployNeutral. True, it would greatly reduce the discrimination people face when initially trying to land an interview. But, if the prospective employee was to land an in-person interview with the employer looking to hire them, there's nothing to stop the discrimination from happening there. EmployNeutral would indeed be very helpful when it came to hiring online and when it came to initially getting an interview, but once the interviewing process steps out into the real world it wouldn't be able to stop the bias from happening there. Overall, it was a very good pitch for an inventive and useful product; it's good intentions would just be limited to the website itself however, because that is the only place that it can definitely eliminate bias on hiring people.