In this week’s Increase Diversity newsletter, Jenn Tardy discusses “The Story of Job Interviews and Assessments (+ Their Risk of Hiring Bias).”

Both are still common practice today in determining your talent pool and making a hire but it’s important to understand their origins. To understand how to make the hiring process fair and equal for all, we must evaluate what our procedures are and why we have them in the first place. 

Traditional interviews for example, are a necessity and expected. Shockingly, they are fairly unchanged from their origins in the late 19th century to the early 1900s as “disorganized conversations leading to a series of impressions based upon impulsive reactions.” Baked into all of it is an intuitive read of the interviewee which is steeped in bias whether it is conscious or subconscious. 

Tardy goes on to elaborate the history and the inherit bias in this week’s full newsletter here!

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