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They shouldn't. Now, you should make sure that your employees and hiring managers aren't making hires based on race. And that goes for favoring _any_ racial gro
by civilian 8y ago
They shouldn't. Now, you should make sure that your employees and hiring managers aren't making hires based on race. And that goes for favoring _any_ racial group.
- krastanov 8y agoThis is pretty naive. Everybody who is not a raging racist thinks they are "colorblind" when it comes to race, but the fact that we let biases unconsciously guide our hiring decisions is pretty well established (Take the John/Jennifer study from Yale for instance). Having a "mechanical" way to fight the bias helps: sure, base the hiring decision only on some magically objective measure of merit that you come up before the interviews that has nothing to do with non-job-related characteristics, I agree with that; but also just ensure that minority groups are actually represented in a reasonable relative proportion in the applicant pool, otherwise there is definitely bias happening somewhere in your pipeline.