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How to ensure a fair recruitment process

We are strong believers of practicing what you preach, and not only saying the right things but also doing it. Promoting diversity and calling yourself inclusive is not enough and you have to put the effort in in order to achieve it.

A survey conducted by McKinsey revealed that companies with gender diversity at the executive level were 21% more profitable compared to those without it. Although we don’t believe that profit should be the main objective or the driving force when working with diversity. 

We do believe it is important to understand that diversity has an impact on many aspects. A fair recruitment and hiring process is one way to go to create change and here is how you can enable it: 

  • Choose your words wisely. One study showed that the use of certain words can discourage people from applying. A study in the UK found that 478,175 words carried gender bias in 77 000 different advertisements. This means that one advert had an average of 6 male or female-coded words. Make sure to create a fair recruitment process by being conscious of gender-coded language. Here’s how you can do it (https://www.totaljobs.com/insidejob/gender-bias-decoder/).
  • Remote interviews. Interviews should be easy to conduct for both the interviewer and the interviewee and part of having an equal interview process is to make it accessible. 
  • Relevant and standardized interview questions. The main reason to have an interview is to learn more about a person’s professional competencies and to understand how they would fit into the team you are recruiting too. Therefore, it is not relevant to ask questions that are related to age, gender or citizenship/race but rather let the questions follow a formal process in order to give every applicant the same opportunity to describe their skills and experience. 
  • Gamification. The use of gamification in the hiring process is a great way to filter out the right competence. Google tried this out by having a billboard placed with a complex mathematical question and if you could solve it, the firm would ask for your resume.