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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
A measure aimed at boosting female employment in the workforce may actually be making it worse, a major study has found.
Leaders of the Australian public service will today be told to "hit pause" on blind recruitment trials, which many believed would increase the number of women in senior positions. Blind recruitment means recruiters cannot tell the gender of candidates because those details are removed from applications. It is seen as an alternative to gender quotas and has also been embraced by Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Victoria Police and Westpac Bank.
In a bid to eliminate sexism, thousands of public servants have been told to pick recruits who have had all mention of their gender and ethnic background stripped from their CVs. The assumption behind the trial is that management will hire more women when they can only consider the professional merits of candidates. Their choices have been monitored by behavioural economists in the Prime Minister's department — colloquially known as "the nudge unit".
Professor Michael Hiscox, a Harvard academic who oversaw the trial, said he was shocked by the results and has urged caution. "We anticipated this would have a positive impact on diversity — making it more likely that female candidates and those from ethnic minorities are selected for the shortlist," he said. "We found the opposite, that de-identifying candidates reduced the likelihood of women being selected for the shortlist."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:09PM (3 children)
The common thread here seems to by... YOU.
Have you ever considered that simply checking the references, evaluating the training and experience, and talking to former employers might be more valuable than your vaunted "interview skills". And by skills I mean not only YOUR'S but the Applicant's as well.
Sitting an interviewed is a skill. Sort of akin to acting. Some people are bad at it, but great on the job.
Did you ever notice nervousness, forgetfulness, not appearing to follow the question, yet good experience, training, and references?
These situations are EXACTLY why the 2ND Interview was invented. Hopefully with a different evaluator, since you seem to have intimidated the candidate last time.
That you don't seem to realize this might mean YOU are failing at your job.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 11 2017, @12:15AM (2 children)
That requires effort. And if we're talking about technical interviews here, then the interviewee should be able to explain what they did in previous positions in a somewhat coherent manner.
And thanks to bullshit like LinkedIn and other social media, discrimination is much easier because you can see the person before you interview them. Or you can be like property owners/managers and reject all applicants who speak with ebonic accents over the phone.
In my experience as a monkey technician (and now software guy) 99% of the time references aren't checked unless they're fucking up. Sure, they verify employment, but the management of serious companies are not legally allowed to disclose things like "eligible for rehire" even though the candidate could have had the most awesome work history. And if your references suck, then you could ask one of your work buddies to pretend they were a line lead or something and give a bullshit reference. Reference questions are pretty generic anyway, shit like "do they work well with others?" etc.
It's really a more person-centric version of the drug-test. If you fail, you're either too much of a fiend or too stupid to beat it. And beating even a 9-panel after having smoked a lot until a few days ago is pretty goddamn easy if you know which products to use.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @12:59AM
Here in free Canada we would protest politely over the validity of those test under our charter of rights and freedoms. There would then be a lengthy debate at the Supremes Court's and those tests would be invalidated and banned
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @01:50AM
Are you feeling OK? For as many words as you wrote I am shocked at the lack of racial slurs and general stupidity. I'd say something positive, but that would probably cause your teenage mind to rebel and go on a tirade.