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Discrimination And Bias in Interviews
In an ideal world, the competence of a person should get him or her the job. In reality, bias gets in the way and is normally related to age, gender, race, appearance and even social class.
Another common mistake is to hire someone who is well-liked by the interviewer due to them being similar. This eventually narrows down the range of skill sets and diversity of thinking in the workplace.
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Attractive people tend to look more smart and qualified than they are. Tall people command more respect and those with deep voices appear trustworthy.
- Usually, a typical job interview has the employer(s) sit in a room (or a video conference software) and make them answer unstructured questions, gauging their ability to charm them, and appear as the right fit by feeling like ‘one of the gang’. The candidate is selected or rejected base...
On the employer’s side, the entire job interview process is subjective, from the shortlisting of applications to the screening phone call, and finally when the candidate is at the door.
Candidates are hired on gut instinct and those who had a good connection during the short call ...
Blind auditions can work in some sectors to measure competency and minimize any personal bias. Interviews showcase their work without providing any personal information like age, race or gender.
This makes the interview hire on merit and not due to their own likeness.
This is a logical fallacy that associates people’s behaviour in one area with other situations and circumstances. The interviewer can correlate a behavioural trait as a visible outcome of certain innate characteristics.
Judging the candidate and selecting or rejecting th...
- A structured interview focused on weeding out the distractions and noise and revealing the competencies of the candidates is a better alternative. The questions are identical and are asked in the same manner to all candidates and there is no unconscious judgement introduce...
Some biases from the interviewer are implicit, and the candidates are not allowed to display their expertise and eventually are bracketed as ‘rejects’.
This is due to the fact that the judgement has been made and also confirmed by the interviewer and now there is no reason to question the...
A job interview process expects the candidate to summarize his entire profile and prove his fitment for the job in a few minutes. This indirectly facilitates lying, deception, exaggeration and hiding of facts from the candidate.
Candidates take credit for things they haven’t done, tailor t...
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Companies involved in a long, drawn-out interview process forget that the best candidates only briefly surface on the job market and don’t stay there forever. Surveys indicate that most candidates lose interest in the job if they are kept waiting in line for longer than two weeks.
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- Prepare your questions based on the attributes of an ideal candidate,
- Reduce stress level. Tell the candidates in advance the questions you plan to ask.
- Involve enough people for multiple checks.
- Assess potential. Look for signs of the candidate's...
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The more you prepare and practice, the more confident you’ll feel when your career aspirations are on the line in the job interview.
This confidence will help you eliminate unattractive nervous habits (like saying um, uh, like) and feel more in command of your answer and body language.
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