The Career Builder's Podcast
Handling Hiring Bias with Shauna Cole
Episode Summary
Virtually everyone can be exposed to a degree of hiring bias during the recruitment process. How can you handle and overcome it? Shauna Cole, a seasoned HR professional, coach and instructor, sheds light on this important topic.
Episode Notes
Topics Covered
- Shauna Cole - Chartered Professional in Human Resources & Career Strategist and Consultant
- What hiring bias is
- The difference between implicit and explicit bias
- The types of biases that show up in recruitment
- Humans are biased by nature, it's not inherently a bad word
- Where biases come from and the link between childhood and how we show up
- Taking individual ownership over our programming and growth
- Implicit Bias test - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/canada/takeatest.html
- How to overcome bias as a candidate
- Resume tips
- What to do if the interviewer asks you an illegal interview question
- Asking "How does this question impact your hiring decision?"
- Asking for feedback and giving feedback
- Who to speak to if you've experienced discrimination in the hiring process
- What companies are doing to eliminate hiring bias
- How to seek out conscious companies
- Why "Hiring the best candidate available" is BS
- Continue the conversation, do the inner work, learn and grow as individuals
- "Keep on Learning" - Shauna Cole