This is a terrific idea and a great resource Veni. Hiring without attention to race/gender/etc. can only really be possible if your hiring funnel actually contains enough diversity itself - if you have 10 people from a single demographic and 1 from another, even if just picking at random it's more likely that one of the ten will be picked. This is an absolutely vital tool that will hopefully even out that balance.
One recommendation I have for the site is for the "Hire" section to blur out faces and names, and possibly other information, until you click into the full profile. Even though I like to think that I can overcome bias to some degree, there's no denying the fact that every time I see a profile photo I make some kind of unconscious judgment call which sticks with me as I read the rest of the summary. I think this is a common issue, and I think that anonymising non-technical information until you get to the full profile could be a good way of hopefully combatting this. Just a thought!
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This is a terrific idea and a great resource Veni. Hiring without attention to race/gender/etc. can only really be possible if your hiring funnel actually contains enough diversity itself - if you have 10 people from a single demographic and 1 from another, even if just picking at random it's more likely that one of the ten will be picked. This is an absolutely vital tool that will hopefully even out that balance.
One recommendation I have for the site is for the "Hire" section to blur out faces and names, and possibly other information, until you click into the full profile. Even though I like to think that I can overcome bias to some degree, there's no denying the fact that every time I see a profile photo I make some kind of unconscious judgment call which sticks with me as I read the rest of the summary. I think this is a common issue, and I think that anonymising non-technical information until you get to the full profile could be a good way of hopefully combatting this. Just a thought!