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Historically (and I suspect your stance is to mostly ignore history and try to make good decisions going forward) people have done a great job of hiring people
by 0_____0 3y ago
Historically (and I suspect your stance is to mostly ignore history and try to make good decisions going forward) people have done a great job of hiring people that resemble themselves.
Social in-group is a powerful thing to fight against. If you can cut off the header of a resume and make hiring decisions based on that, that's awesome, but otherwise it's reasonable to be aware of and resist implicit bias in hiring.
- swader999 3y agoI don't really have that luxury in almost every situation. More often than not a candidate far surpasses anyone else in areas that are very objective to the role at hand.
- threatofrain 3y agoSometimes doing blind interviews can lead to more lopsided gender outcomes.
- 0_____0 3y agoAbsolutely. I think it makes sense to decide what outcomes you want. I'm an activist in the sense that I want to see everyone who is inclined to participate in something due to interest or talent do so, not necessarily now, but 20, 30 years from now. When people get discouraged and shut out from jobs, sports, music scenes, it's a loss, especially if that means we perpetuate patterns that lose us hundreds, thousands, millions of talented individuals in the future.
- mc32 3y agoWhen in college, in a downtown uni, I recall walking around the small businesses around town looking for a part-time job. It was hard, and most workers seemed to come from the same background. Maybe they were cheaper, maybe they spoke the same language --who knows, but rarely did they have mixed ethnicities in those smaller businesses.
- 0_____0 3y agoI used to work with a PCB vendor in SV who had two buildings - fab and assembly. Fab was almost 100% Indian, assy was almost 100% vietnamese. They mostly hired out of foreign language newspapers.
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