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Woof, these comments. These are pretty standard tactics for increasing diversity. The idea is you want to expend energy filling your outbound pipeline with dive
by dyeje 7y ago
Woof, these comments. These are pretty standard tactics for increasing diversity. The idea is you want to expend energy filling your outbound pipeline with diverse candidates because your inbound pipeline will naturally fill up with the status quo.
You don't lower the bar at all or discriminate against anyone, as many people in this thread are assuming, the key is just bringing in enough people that you find someone who meets the bar from an underrepresented group.
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- TheOperator 7y agoFirst, how the shit do you select somebody for a job without discriminating? Do you just select at random? Discrimination by skill is extremely legitimate... Second, OP also clearly is not simply expanding their job search. They're biasing the process in favour of certain identity groups every step of the way. Third, What annoys me the least is people who try to achieve "diversity" by breaking down barriers to employment. What annoys me moderately is people who use heavy-handed methods like discrimination against certain identity groups justifying it as the only way to achieve fairness due to factors like the power of the majority group and pointing out that the work world without such measures is not a meritocracy. What irritates me the absolute most is cowards who discriminate against others because it's their job, but they don't feel okay with it so they deny that they're even doing it, just so they never have to confront and rationalise what they're doing. If you don't have the moral conviction that what you're doing is okay quit your job instead of participating in discrimination you're so uncomfortable with you deny doing it.
- dyeje 7y agoI really don't understand the animosity in this thread against top of funnel diversity tactics. What is so offensive about interviewing more women, people of color, etc? Why do you automatically assume "breaking down barriers to employment"? Do you think people from these groups are inherently unable to pass the same interview?
- TheOperator 7y ago>Do you think people from these groups are inherently unable to pass the same interview? I've had two job search workers insist on those "top of funnel" tactics when I searched for a job and when I refused two separate workers refused to give me an interview through anything but a diversity recruiter. I didn't really want to take a job from somebody who would hire me just because I went over one of their lines and checked the right boxes and not because I was the best.