3 ms·
People tend, consciously or not, to recruit most heavily from among people like themselves (for lots of reasons which aren't necessarily bad: a lot of referrals
by ubernostrum 11y ago
People tend, consciously or not, to recruit most heavily from among people like themselves (for lots of reasons which aren't necessarily bad: a lot of referrals are based on knowing someone, for example, and a lot of peoples' social circles/contacts tend to be pretty homogeneous to begin with).
In other words, even on the easiest default approach (recruiting from people similar to ourselves), we suck. God help us as we try to recruit from people dissimilar to ourselves.
- blizkreeg 11y agoIMHO you are subconsciously profiling if that is what you're doing in your hiring i.e., making assumptions about people's skills/talent based on any of those attributes.
- URSpider94 11y agoThat's exactly what you are doing, and there is copious data out there to say that we all do it. The generally accepted term is "unconscious bias." I saw a summary of a study recently in which people were asked to rate top character indicators of success for male and female candidates for a job, things like "aggressive," "nurturing," "outspoken," "mediator." Not surprisingly, the adjective sets for male and female candidates were substantially different.
- URSpider94 11y agoCite here: http://www.catalyst.org/system/files/Women_Take_Care_Men_Take_Charge_Stereotyping_of_U.S._Business_Leaders_Exposed.pdf http://www.catalyst.org/system/files/Women_Take_Care_Men_Tak...