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Being willing to hire whoever is best for the job gets you there though. The statement above seems to be about diversity for diversity's sake.
by monochromatic 14y ago
Being willing to hire whoever is best for the job gets you there though. The statement above seems to be about diversity for diversity's sake.
- cristinacordova 14y agoThe post assumes that the women you are trying to recruit are qualified.
- katbyte 14y agoI think the post is more about not driving off women who are qualified.
- cristinacordova 14y agocorrect, that was my goal.
- monochromatic 14y agoSure. I was questioning the assumption that a diverse workforce is better than a non-diverse workforce. It's not clear to me that you can actually do better through pursuing diversity than you can through simply being willing to interview and hire whoever is best for the jobs. Now, not setting up unintentional barriers to hiring women, as you discuss, is sort of a prerequisite for that.
- mooreds 14y agoSome startups are 'willing' to hire whoever is best for the job but have invisible (to them) obstacles that may prevent them from doing so. I thought the article explained some of those obstacles well.