Mar 2020
Overcome Unconscious Bias in Job Interviews
By having the right interview techniques in place, you can overcome unconscious bias in hiring decisions and the workplace, and build an even more successful company.
We provide competency-based behavioral interviewing training for interview teams including hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers.
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Oct 2014
SHRM: Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process
After interviewing the interview expert Jim Kennedy, Michelle Martinez explores how to eliminate hidden interviewer bias and make better hiring decisions.
Feb 2014
Expand Your Cultural Comfort Zone in the Interview
Have you ever been in an interview situation where you experienced discomfort with the candidate because of some difference between the two of you? We teach individuals to recognize this feeling and how to expand their cultural comfort zone in order to reduce bias in the interview.
Jan 2013
Overcoming First Impressions in an Interview
Your initial reactions to a candidate can be powerful and persuasive, but they can also be spectacularly wrong. Find out how to avoid the pitfalls of snap judgments in an interview and hire effectively.
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Apr 1994
Useful Information or Stereotyping?
Sometimes there seems to be a fine line between providing useful information and using stereotypes to describe groups of people.
Apr 1994
The Biggest Minority
In many U.S. cities, the white population is no longer the majority. In fact, current demographics predict the ethnic population will grow seven times faster than the white population.
Jan 1994
Costly Assumption About Disabilities
The Rhode Island Department of Mental Health lost a discrimination lawsuit to the tune of $100,000. Why? Because the Department made the assumption that an obese woman was disabled and thus would not be able to perform the job for which she had applied.
Jan 1994
Gender Bias Starts Early
Why are there fewer females in science, math, engineering, and technical disciplines? At least one reason may be the way girls are treated by their teachers.
Oct 1993
Adjusting Interviews for Generation X Values
Interviewers need to be ready to adjust their questions and techniques for a generation of workers with different values who have entered the workforce.
Oct 1993
Legal Lunacy at Stanford
Recently, a self-defense class for women at Stanford University was cancelled after an anonymous complaint of discrimination against men.
Oct 1993
Double Standard Still the Standard
Forty years ago, overt racism was acceptable and Jim Crow laws distinctly marked the lines between races. Although the U.S. has changed laws and educated workers to embrace diversity, subtle discrimination occurs every day.
Jul 1993
Equal Pay – All Talk, No Act(ion)
Thirty years after the Equal Pay Act, women's salaries still lag far behind men's. At times, the pay gap has actually widened from one year to the next.
Apr 1993
Understanding Diversity in the Interview
Following President Clinton's recent meeting with Boris Yeltsin in Vancouver, a reporter released some notes from this event. According to the reporter, one of Clinton's comments to Yeltsin was, "Sometimes the Japanese tell us 'yes' when they really mean 'no.' "
Apr 1993
"Pssst Employees...Here's How to Sue Us"
California might be in the forefront of what may occur across the nation regarding sexual harassment. As of January 1993, a law in California requires every employer to teach their employees about sexual harassment.
Apr 1993
Brooks Brother's Blunder
In a recent job bias suit, Brooks Brothers was accused of discriminatory hiring practices, and in order to settle the embarrassing case out of court, had to pay some hefty fines.
Apr 1993
Men are From Mars
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is the intriguing title of a current New York Times bestseller authored by John Gray, a neighbor of ours in Marin County, California. The ideas in his book confirm many of our own experiences in relationships, and have relevance to principles we teach in our interview training module Reduce Unconscious Bias.
Apr 1993
Glass Walls Support Glass Ceiling
While women and people of diverse backgrounds have been pounding on the infamous glass ceiling, glass walls have been built up around them.
Oct 1992
Three Factors Contribute to the Glass Ceiling
"The Glass Ceiling Initiative," a study done by the U.S. Department of Labor, found that there are three significant factors contributing to the glass ceiling in American corporations.
Oct 1992
Increasing Diversity in Hiring
Only 15 percent of net new workers will be white males. How often has that phrase been quoted since the publication of Workforce 2000?
Oct 1992
Wedding Rings Off or On?
Felice Schwartz found that married women students routinely removed their wedding rings before job interviews with on-campus male recruiters. Why? The women students believed that male recruiters used this formula: "Woman = Baby = No commitment."
Oct 1992
Inclusive Interviewing
In our diversity interviewer training, participants learn a number of techniques for expanding their "cultural comfort zone." One such technique is to view differences as merely "differences," without labeling them right or wrong.
Oct 1992
Women Take Action
In a recent and highly publicized scandal, sexual harassment charges against the Navy Tailhook Association resulted in two Navy admirals losing their jobs and a third being reassigned. Add to this the earlier resignation of the Secretary of the Navy and it is obvious that considerable damage has been done to the Navy's reputation.
Jul 1992
ADA: General Guidelines
Four specific actions to prepare interviewers for the ADA are briefly summarized here. Informed interviewers will be responsive and make better hiring decisions.
Jul 1992
Sexism - From Denial to Action
Awareness and action on feminist issues seems to be moving along a continuum that has important implications for interviewers. Recognizable touchstones along this continuum are Denial, Collusion, Awakening, Anger, Action.
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