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Maybe LinkedIn/Facebook is making this more socially acceptable. I sure would like to picture a potential employee before phone screening/in depth interviews.
by jasonlgrimes 16y ago
Maybe LinkedIn/Facebook is making this more socially acceptable. I sure would like to picture a potential employee before phone screening/in depth interviews.
- supahfly_remix 16y agoAre you in a technical area? Why would someone's appearance matter? I can understand if you're hiring for Hooter's (or sales, not too different). The appearance of judging based on pictures can also open your company up to EEO lawsuits.
- scottporad 16y agoAppearance doesn't matter, and in the post, I don't think I ever said it did. (In fact, what I said was, "it wasn’t his pretty face that was the deciding factor; he was a very qualified candidate who would have passed our screening regardless".) I know nothing about this guy's skills other than what his resume says. But, what I do know is that he's a person, compared to every one of these other resumes that are an abstraction.
- Groxx 16y agoAnd you also know that he's an early-middle-aged white male, which likely influenced you to some degree, however minor, in whatever direction. You've even labeled him a "guy". Why "guy"? Why not some other term? A sense of familiarity? Hence the EEOC issues.
- abeppu 16y agoYeah, but most of the time, the name is going to give you strong clues about gender and ethnicity anyways. And education and job history probably give you good ideas about the applicant's age. People already have plenty of opportunity to discriminate even without the photo.
- Groxx 16y agoVery true. I've long thought that I'd love to make / have a hiring-tool which just hashes names and hides them (as there's still rare uses) and all racial data to hide this sort of bias. I wonder what it'd do to hiring stats.