Hiring Manager Guide to Recruitment
Being fair to candidates and your unconscious bias All candidates should be treated in a fair and consistent way. From an assessment perspective this means each candidate must be asked the same competency questions. From a personal perspective you need to be aware of your unconscious biases, we all have them, and they can influence your decisions without you realising. We cannot avoid our unconscious biases and it can be difficult to prevent them from impacting on our judgements during an interview process. Your background and experience influence your behaviour and can lead to poor decision making. We are ‘hard-wired’ to prefer people who look like us, sound like us and share our interests. These preferences bypass our normal, rational and logical thinking. Even the most well-intentioned person unwittingly allows unconscious thoughts and feelings to influence apparently objective decisions.
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