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.

White men (and women) can jump

January 31, 2023April 20, 2016 by Angela Hood

Just this morning I had a great conversation with the COO for a Fortune 500 company and as often happens, I was asked about the trend towards diversity. He had made the observation that his leadership team had become too white and too male and he thought it was a good time to add some ‘diversity’.

HR Issues SMEs Face And How ThisWay Global Can Help

January 31, 2023March 3, 2016 by Angela Hood

Small businesses are the backbone of most economies. In the United States, for instance, small businesses provide over half of all jobs. In the UK, 99.3% of all private sector businesses at the beginning of 2015 were small businesses, and total employment in small-medium businesses was 15.6 million (60% of the private sector).

Will Fighter Jet Technology Help You Land Your Next Job?

January 31, 2023October 23, 2015 by Angela Hood

ThisWay Global | Press Release October 2015
ThisWay Global contact: Angela Hood – Founder/CEO
Mb: +44 7580 686431 | Email: angela@thiswayglobal.com

Can Part-Time Work Minimize the Number of Layoffs?

January 31, 2023October 14, 2015 by Angela Hood

The latter part of 2014’s plummeting oil prices set the stage for a challenging 2015 and remaining uncertainty for 2016. Companies large and small, independent and integrated, have been affected by the downturn.

The first step in a startup is to just ‘start’

January 31, 2023August 23, 2015 by Angela Hood

It may sound a bit cheeky to say that but it’s true; the first step in a startup is the part where you actually take the leap to trust yourself, your idea and just start. In some ways I started ThisWay in 1991 so ‘starting’ may look a bit different than you think.