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Show HN: Fight bias with Details Redacted
After having a conversation with a friend about unconscious bias in hiring decisions, I thought it would be interesting to see if there might be any interest in a service that removes names and gender pronouns from application materials.
Is this something you'd be interested in? Are there any features I could add to make it more appealing?
Check out the live site at:
http://www.detailsredacted.com
- simantel 14y agoClickable: http://www.detailsredacted.com http://www.detailsredacted.com
- snoldak924 14y agoMaybe turn it into a SaaS API? Sort of like a XSS-filter but just for pronouns.
- Spien 14y agoInteresting idea. Are email addresses redacted? Is the redacted data configurable? I like being able to round file resumes from weedwizard420@gmail.com and domains like hotmail, msn, or aol.
- simantel 14y agoRight now everything is being done by hand, so it's totally configurable. But I imagined email addresses would be redacted, yes. It brings up an interesting point, though - perhaps something that ranked the various components of a resume would be more useful. Rather than simply redacting the email, for instance, I could assign it a value based on the respectability of the domain and the applicant's choice of username. School could similarly be ranked by some objective score (which might provide the added anti-bias measure of anonymizing presumed nationality). Work could be reduced to number of years in a given industry, at least for the purpose of a once-over of your candidates.