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Sounds like a good solution is to strip names from CVs when reviewing them. People are fallible, and often racist/sexist/discriminatory in general, even subcon
by toomanybeersies 11y ago
Sounds like a good solution is to strip names from CVs when reviewing them.
People are fallible, and often racist/sexist/discriminatory in general, even subconsciously.
I wonder if this effect is the same with black recruiters, or if it goes the opposite way. It's very much normal for people to favour people similar to them, by race, gender, religion, etc.
- abecedarius 11y agoThe Recurse Center does this with their applications -- they substitute randomly-generated names like Spandex Reindeer. Great idea.
- wkimeria 11y agoI don't think the effect goes the other way (a lot of people habor anti-black unconscious bias, even black people). Re anonymizing the names, I think there are a bunch of startup companies that provide such a service (i.e. https://www.gapjumpers.me/ https://www.gapjumpers.me/ ). It has been shown to make a difference but it is not always practical