Holy shit, I was just thinking the same thing. We were talking about the various things that recruiters use to filter applicants, and they're largely untested,

Holy shit, I was just thinking the same thing. We were talking about the various things that recruiters use to filter applicants, and they're largely untested, possibly containing unknown bias. You know what's not biased? Random chance. Just try to get down to the bare minimum reqs, then randomly place in a queue. Then you have two options. Either truly random interviews, or the manager gets to pick out of some kind of priority queue. There's still biases here, but we're not introducing any black magic. There are biases in whatever minimum specs you set. If you have the manager select, then you have their biases. Also, it would be hard to manage whatever the specs are, because you're probably not going to hire literally anyone, while maintaining this random strategy (without creating a new "system").