Hiring Bias Archives

How to avoid unconscious bias with skills-based testing

Unconscious bias can subtly seep into the recruitment process, but it significantly compromises the fairness of hiring practices. In this article, we’ve explained how skills-based testing helps to avoid unconscious bias. What is unconscious bias? Operating beneath our awareness, unconscious bias shapes decisions without our realisation. Rooted in implicit preferences and stereotypes, it influences decision-making […]

AI Bias in Hiring: What You Need to Know

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the hiring process by automating tasks like resume screening, candidate selection, and even interviewing. AI-powered systems promise to reduce bias, increase efficiency, and deliver better hiring outcomes. However, AI is not perfect, and it can be biased if not designed and trained correctly. In this article, we’ll define AI bias […]

Adverse Impact: What It Is and How You Can Minimise It

Creating a business that is both inclusive and diverse is essential in today’s world. It can improve business outcomes, profitability and create happier, more engaged workplaces. But while some hiring processes may appear to be inclusive on the surface, recruiters need to analyse them to ensure they result in giving candidates equal opportunities. In this […]

Hiring bias: 16 types of bias (and how to prevent them)

Diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias are buzzwords in recruitment right now. The benefits of increasing the diversity of your company workforce are beyond question (more on that later), and the Black Lives Matter protests have forced CEOs to look at their own hiring practices more closely. This involves learning more about the cognitive biases that […]

Diversity Training: 5 Alternatives to Bias Training

Attitudes to diversity are changing. #BlackLivesMatter is a movement, not a moment. And it’s put recruitment and recruiter bias firmly in the spotlight. Talent Acquisition leaders across the world are desperately seeking to ascertain whether their hiring practices are fair and inclusive. A range of diversity-friendly tools and training programs are here to help, but […]

Hiring Discrimination: 6 Tips to Reduce It

Unfortunately hiring discrimination is on the rise. A recent study on employee charge trends found that 12% of U.S. businesses have had an employment charge filed against them. In this article, we’ll discuss 6 tips to reduce hiring discrimination, explain why it’s important and why fairer hiring leads to increased employee diversity. What is hiring […]