Liberals are claiming that the wording of job ads calling for the best candidates discriminate against women and minorities.
Hidden biases in job postings — like the infamous line above that tech startup Klout used in 2012— as well as the words recruiters use to describe a position may be turning away potential employees long before they’ve had a chance to send in a resume.
In the highly competitive world of tech, where companies constantly seek to outdo each other in their attempts to attract the best talent, many companies repeat and reuse words that research has shown have clear biases.
Job postings asking for “rockstars,” “wizards” and “ninjas” skew male. Those seeking recent graduates or explicitly noting a maximum amount of experience alienate older applicants. Ads asking for graduates from “top-tier” colleges may lose out on underrepresented minority candidates who may not think historically black colleges and universities, Latino-serving institutions or state colleges count as “top tier.” When tech employees seem overwhelmingly white and male, diverse candidates may not see themselves as fitting a job asking for people with a “startup mentality,” experts said.
Asking for the “best of the best” will largely give you white male applicants. Telling would-be employees that a company has a “work hard, play hard” culture may signal to older workers that it’s a Millennials club. Including the phrase “competitive salary” can be a turn-off to women, who may be less inclined to negotiate.
The irony is that the article itself is racist. It assumes that women and minorities don't view themselves as capable and so get turned off by ads calling for capable candidates. Liberals always portray women and blacks as super sensitive with easy to hurt feelings, and unable to compete with others. That too is racist.
Anyway, if companies shouldn't call for the best candidates what should they ask for, mediocre ones?
http://newsmachete.com/?news=1672
Hidden biases in job postings — like the infamous line above that tech startup Klout used in 2012— as well as the words recruiters use to describe a position may be turning away potential employees long before they’ve had a chance to send in a resume.
In the highly competitive world of tech, where companies constantly seek to outdo each other in their attempts to attract the best talent, many companies repeat and reuse words that research has shown have clear biases.
Job postings asking for “rockstars,” “wizards” and “ninjas” skew male. Those seeking recent graduates or explicitly noting a maximum amount of experience alienate older applicants. Ads asking for graduates from “top-tier” colleges may lose out on underrepresented minority candidates who may not think historically black colleges and universities, Latino-serving institutions or state colleges count as “top tier.” When tech employees seem overwhelmingly white and male, diverse candidates may not see themselves as fitting a job asking for people with a “startup mentality,” experts said.
Asking for the “best of the best” will largely give you white male applicants. Telling would-be employees that a company has a “work hard, play hard” culture may signal to older workers that it’s a Millennials club. Including the phrase “competitive salary” can be a turn-off to women, who may be less inclined to negotiate.
The irony is that the article itself is racist. It assumes that women and minorities don't view themselves as capable and so get turned off by ads calling for capable candidates. Liberals always portray women and blacks as super sensitive with easy to hurt feelings, and unable to compete with others. That too is racist.
Anyway, if companies shouldn't call for the best candidates what should they ask for, mediocre ones?
http://newsmachete.com/?news=1672
