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Identify Biased Filters in Hiring
Bias in hiring stems from a lack of self-awareness among CEOs and managers, who must recognize subtle biases like elitism, familiarity heuristic, and career archetypes to expand their talent pool and embrace diversity effectively.
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How Bias Compounds
Psychologist Valerie Purdie Greenaway highlights in her video lesson that micro-inequities, though subtle, can accumulate to significantly harm individuals and groups in the workplace, leading to talent loss, universal vulnerability to discrimination, and increased stress impacting performance and health.
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Practice Inclusive Hiring
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra outlines strategies for standardizing interview processes to enhance inclusivity, including anonymizing resumes, leveling expectations, reducing affinity bias, and customizing questions for diverse candidates.
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Broaden Your Recruitment Efforts
To create a more inclusive work environment, organizations should prioritize hiring for “culture add” by diversifying their candidate pool, rethinking job listings to attract underrepresented demographics, and ensuring at least 50% of candidates are non-male and non-white.
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Rethink the Term “Microaggressions”
In a video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of recognizing “exclusionary behaviors,” such as mispronouncing names and stereotype-based assumptions, which can significantly impact marginalized individuals’ well-being and sense of belonging, and suggests asking for correct name pronunciations as a simple act of inclusion.