Avoid Common Hiring Mistakes

Unconscious Bias: How to Avoid Common Hiring Mistakes

This workshop examines personality types within teams, recruiting personality types for role/team dynamic and behavioural interviewing skills. The workshop then examines unconscious bias: the natural human process of categorising like objects together which can result in individuals’ implicit reliance on stereotypes. These stereotypes may then operate largely independent of the intent of an individual. Stereotypes cause discrimination by influencing how individuals process and recall information about other people. Thus, once a person has stored information in this manner, the memory distorted by stereotype is the retained memory, as opposed to the “raw” incoming information. This can lead to attribution bias errors and negatively influence decision making, particularly in an employment recruitment setting.