Unconscious bias can affect workplaces and organisations. It can introduce unintentional discrimination and result in poor decision-making.
Unconscious Bias can be a huge setback in creating a truly diverse and inclusive workplace. It has been shown that such biases can have an impact on recruitment, mentoring and promotions.
Six steps to reduce bias in recruitment:
- Educate your team
- Improve awareness within your teams
- Modify job descriptions as this is the first stage where bias can take place
- Make Inclusion a priority
- Make decisions driven by data
- Establish new and improved diversity goals to utilise as a good practice/lessons learnt auditing mechanism
Please watch the videos below to understand how bias plays a role in our decision making throughout the recruitment process:
