Hiring Manager Guide to Recruitment
Common types of bias in the workplace
Affinity Bias The tendency to warm to people like ourselves.
Halo effect The tendency to think everything about a person is good because you like that person.
When assessing candidates, you need to be mindful of and consider whether your unconscious biases are having an impact on your decisions. You must be able to clearly detail reasons as to why you are not progressing with a candidate, for example – they do not have the right level of experience, or they did not demonstrate genuine interest or motivation for the role or Anchor. Your reason cannot simply be because you didn’t like what they were wearing, where they are from, their appearance or their accent. Group think This bias occurs when people try too hard to fit into a particular group by mimicking others or holding back thoughts and opinions. This causes them to lose part of their identities and causes organisations to lose out on creativity and innovation. Perception bias The tendency to form stereotypes and assumptions about certain groups of people that make it impossible to make an objective judgement about members of those groups. Confirmation bias The tendency for people to seek information that confirms pre-existing beliefs or assumptions.
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