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Starting this summer, if the Body Shop needs a new employee at one of their stores, the first person who applies for the job will get it. They wonât have to go through any of the steps many employers now require to hire even entry level positions.
They wonât have to have an interview (besides answering three simple questions about whether they can perform the duties of the job), which means that any bias of the hiring manager wonât be a factor. They wonât have to submit to a background check, which means formerly incarcerated people can as easily get a job as anyone else. And they wonât be drug tested.
The company is radically simplifying its hiring process as part of a new movement called âopen hiring.â After testing the philosophy in its distribution warehouse over the holidays, the Body Shop found it drastically reduced turnover and saved money by streamlining the hiring process. Now, in just a year after hearing about the idea, itâs rolling it out to its stores.
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