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Reality check: Does name-blind hiring help improve diversity?
Global News ^ | July 15, 2018 | Jane Gerster

Posted on 07/15/2018 3:12:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

There will be no names on the hundreds of resumés the hiring committee of a Toronto law firm sifts through this summer.

Lenczner Slaght plans to remove every name from every resumé submitted as part of the 2019 summer student hiring process, which begins next month and will see upwards of 450 candidates whittled down to fewer than 10 hires.

It’s an attempt to prevent unconscious bias from seeping into hiring decisions and knocking white women and men and women of colour out of the running on the basis of non-white and non-male sounding names....

(Excerpt) Read more at globalnews.ca ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; diversity; hiring
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do we need to ‘improve diversity’? What does that even mean? Eradicate whites?


21 posted on 07/15/2018 3:48:16 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In my experience as a CAD Designer with many contract assignments or “gigs” under my belt, you best not routinely outperform any direct-hire employees if you want to make friends.


22 posted on 07/15/2018 3:57:29 PM PDT by equaviator (`)
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To: equaviator

Like working too efficiently in a union factory?


23 posted on 07/15/2018 4:00:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

99 you’re hired.


24 posted on 07/15/2018 4:05:28 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will they also have blindfolded interviews?

If they removed all references to race and gender and only did merit based hiring, guess what the employee population would look like?


25 posted on 07/15/2018 4:06:20 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Probably. On the non-union or even “open shop” side, there is a huge emphasis on image. The more PC-sounding and looking they happen to be the more they think they’re cool with their would-be customers. HR needs to get down to the real business of doing business and making money and not be so concerned with appearances.


26 posted on 07/15/2018 4:12:21 PM PDT by equaviator (`)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the do hiring with no names, genders or photos they will hire a very qualified group of Asians and Anglos. That’s the dirty secret - a diverse workforce is often less intelligent than what they could have had.


27 posted on 07/15/2018 4:25:45 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
The very last line of the article says, “It’s sort of like hiring in the dark, you’re hiring essentially based on merit and that’s not really helpful to diversity.”

Oooops... I bet he didn't mean to admit that.

28 posted on 07/15/2018 4:35:34 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: FatherofFive
Years ago, before PCs in the office, I had a consulting project to try to reduce turnover in the customer service department for a utility in Georgia. I developed a 'weighted application blank. We got it down to two variables - you would be hired if you spent 2 or more years at your previous job, and you lived in the same residence for more than 2 years. While it did reduce turnover, it also excluded about 75% of Black applicants. We had to scrap it. Profiling works.

Wow, that is .... stunning. Stunning that weighting those two items had such an effect, and stunning that they scrapped it even though it was working. I just want to bounce my head off a wall when I read that.

29 posted on 07/15/2018 4:39:02 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady; FatherofFive

One of my jobs at the state unemployment office was going through company employment applications to find questions that violated labor laws, discriminated against protected classes or otherwise broke the law. We’d then notify the companies.


30 posted on 07/15/2018 4:53:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unconscious bias is everywhere except the FBI. /s


31 posted on 07/15/2018 5:02:31 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s an interesting idea. If they run this experiment through a couple of hiring cycles, it would be interesting to see how the outcomes differ - if at all - from years in which the application-reviewers had a chance of knowing the sex and race/ethnicity of the applicants.

At the point of an interview, of course, the anonymity breaks down.


32 posted on 07/15/2018 5:22:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Might backfire on minorities. I’d laugh if all final people were all white if all qualified.


33 posted on 07/15/2018 6:51:37 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Drew68
"Canada isn't the United States. They're not just letting anyone in"

According to the video with Antifa supporting an illegal border crossing called Roxham Road, They are doing just that. These people involved in the crossing don't look like Engineers to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9avJlNdTe0

34 posted on 07/16/2018 10:48:09 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Lol

How many cat ladies here know what a glory hole is...

Do NOT look it up ladies!!!!!!!


35 posted on 07/16/2018 10:52:15 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Lol

Jackson State and Itta Beena and Alcorn A&M

Morehouse

Toogaloo college

Grambling

Tenn State

Yep got a point


36 posted on 07/16/2018 10:54:24 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Daquantafing Summerfield was hired in the accounting dept. because she loves kids.
37 posted on 07/16/2018 10:59:32 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Might as well rewrite their entire resumes then, you know, to eliminate all bias.


38 posted on 07/16/2018 11:03:38 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: wardaddy

If you’ve been in public bathrooms you’ve seen them


39 posted on 07/16/2018 11:12:48 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

And end up like that scene in Porkys where the dyke grabs the worm


40 posted on 07/16/2018 11:20:37 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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