Tuesday 20 December 2016

Could blind hiring be used to replace the resume as the primary screener?



What’s there in a gender, color or religion of the candidate?
That’s the premise of a practice that some businesses are using, called “blind hiring.”
Can you ditch Resumes or just throw them in the trash and find better employees for your business? Blind hiring is a trending new hiring practice to minimize unconscious bias in hiring decisions, making it easier for employers to evaluate a candidate’s abilities without being influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, and educational background. ‘Blind hiring’ focuses on a person’s talents rather than education and ethnicity.
Tech companies have begun to take a serious look at ways to eliminate unconscious bias in the hiring process in order to promote diversity and ensure they hire the best talent possible. To adopt less biased hiring practices, promoting workplace inclusion is an important goal for any employer to have, and examining the role that unconscious bias plays in the hiring process is a solid first step in the right direction.

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