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If you're responsible for choosing applicants to interview from a stack of resumes, you can do something similar by simply having someone else strip the names o
by beloch 12y ago
If you're responsible for choosing applicants to interview from a stack of resumes, you can do something similar by simply having someone else strip the names out before you see them.
While you probably are not consciously racist or sexist, simply consuming mass media and living in the society we live in gives us aliefs (subconsciously held beliefs that we consciously know are wrong) that can affect our choices without our knowledge. It's substantially harder to remove your subconscious from the equation when conducting interviews, but at least choosing the best candidates to interview is a step in the right direction.
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- growupkids 12y agoWhich is why I'm always puzzled as to why job applications ask for information that has no bearing on the process of qualifying an applicant, such as age, gender, nationality, race and so on. Unless you are specifically looking for someone of particular age, gender, nationality and race why ask for this information?
- DanBC 12y agoIn theory that information is used by the company to male sure they are not discriminating against any groups. Ideally that information is on a seperate sheet which is never seen by people in the recruitment process; it goes directly to HR to use for their stats.
- aptwebapps 12y agoOT, but that's a funny slip: "... by the company to male sure ..."
- lawnchair_larry 12y agoJob applications do not ask for that information. It's illegal.
- wahnfrieden 12y agoThis depends greatly on local law.
- drpgq 12y agoI'm always amazed that places like Germany generally have people including photos with their resumes. Blew my mind when I moved there from Canada.