My guest on this episode is Stacey Duguid - former ELLE fashion editor, author of In Pursuit of Happiness and now founder of Encore, a community for midlife women who can’t get back into work.
Stacey tells me how despite her glittering career in fashion, last year she sent out CV after CV and didn’t get so much as an auto reply. By March this year she was signing on for Universal Credit and then she uncovered a big reason for what was happening: AI.
Stacey explains how AI recruitment tools are filtering out women over 40 before a human ever sees their application and how - when she posted about it on her Instagram Stories - thousands of women told her it was happening to them too.
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Follow Stacey on Instagram at @staceyduguid, find Encore by downloading the Mighty app and searching for Her Encore, and check out her book In Pursuit of Happiness: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-Happiness-Mating-Marriage-Motherhood/dp/0349435197/
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Music: Epidemic Sound
Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer
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