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Diversity Tactics that work!

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Holly Fawcett

Social Talent

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Discover smarter ways to recruit through behavioural learning

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1. Tick-box training sessions and "refreshers" 2. Diversity statements like "So and so is an

equal opportunities employer" 3. Affirmative action/ positive discrimination

Diversity Tactics That Don’t Work

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1. Activity trackers and balanced slates 2. Inclusive talent attraction strategy 3. Hiring managers who know how to interview

candidates properly (!)

Diversity Tactics That Do Work

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Why doesn’t traditional “unconscious bias” training

work?

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Pink Green Yellow

Red White Purple

BlackBlue OrangeStroop Test, 1935

Read the words on the screenTask:

Pink Green Yellow

Red White Purple

BlackBlue OrangeStroop Test, 1935

Task:Name the COLOURS on the screen

What’s happening?

• System 1, our automatic system, takes over

• System 2, our conscious system, tries to override the automatic

but it is much more difficult

• System 1 is responsible for an array of biases, shortcuts, quick

judgements and heuristics that we rely on every day

• Often, System 1 sees a pattern and defaults that pattern as a rule

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Common Biases and Heuristics in the Recruitment Process

• Conformity Bias

• Beauty Bias

• Affinity Bias

• Halo Effect

• Similarity Bias

• Attribution Bias

• Contrast Effect

• Central Tendency

• Confirmation Bias

• Cognitive Dissonance

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So, we have to play into unconscious bias?

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Common Biases and Heuristics in the Recruitment Process

• Conformity Bias

• Beauty Bias

• Affinity Bias

• Halo Effect

• Similarity Bias

• Attribution Bias

• Contrast Effect

• Central Tendency

• Confirmation Bias

• Cognitive Dissonance

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What if you found out that you view twice as many male profiles as

female profiles on LinkedIn every day?

Our “Background Statistics” research

revealed that the ratio of male:female

profile views were 2:1 consistently

Common Biases and Heuristics in the Recruitment Process

• Conformity Bias

• Beauty Bias

• Affinity Bias

• Halo Effect

• Similarity Bias

• Attribution Bias

• Contrast Effect

• Central Tendency

• Confirmation Bias

• Cognitive Dissonance

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By changing the status quo on the slate, women are 79.14X more likely to get hired, and

non-white candidates are 193.72X more likely to get the

job

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Harvard Business Review, April 2016

What’s an “inclusive talent attraction strategy”?

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Using Years of Experience to Define Competence or Fit

What’s your favourite number?

7

The number of years is arbitrary, it’s the quality that we’re after

Using Masculine Words in our Ads

Aggressive Champion Confident Dominant Driven Lead Objective Self-Confident

Commit Cooperate Interpersonal Support Together Understand Inclusive Cheer Nurture

Masculine-coded Feminine-coded

Check your job adverts!

Google the Gender Decoder

gender-decoder.katmatfield.com

Adding Unnecessary Skills That Can Be Trained

Women will only apply for jobs where they meet 100% of the criteria. Men will apply when they meet just 60% of the criteria.

Hewlett Packard, 2010

For those women who have not been applying for jobs because they believe the stated qualifications must be met, the statistic is a wake-up call that not everyone is playing the game that way. When those women know others are giving it a shot even when they don’t meet the job criteria, they feel free to do the same.

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”Harvard Business Review, 2014

So what’s “wrong” with my Hiring Managers?

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Accounting for Other’s Unconscious Bias

Don’t let your Diversity Sourcing stop at the Recruiting Team!

• Standardise or Redact CV’s/Résumés

• Remove Names, Addresses, Universities; standardise formatting

Agenda

Process

Diversity on the Shortlist

• Aim for a 50:50 split of diverse/non-diverse candidates on shortlists

where possible (minimum of 2)

• The primary obstacle for diversity is the lack of opportunity to be

considered

• The best candidate will win on merit, but only if they’re given fair

contest.

What else?

Diverse Performance in Assessment

• How a candidate performs at Interview and

Assessment will determine if they will be

successful

• Many factors play into performance under

assessment, including the actions of the

interviewer - training is essential

• Example: Stereotype Threat and Stereotype

Boost

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The program is loaded with practical, how-to

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When you compliment her outfit, stereotype threat is activated

She will perform less well at interview than if nothing was mentioned

When you pat him on the shoulder, stereotype boost is activated

He will perform better at interview than if he had not been touched

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Diversity Tactics that work!

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