Uncovering Subconscious Bias While Hiring And Recruiting

Hire the best candidates by identifying subconscious bias, and fixing it in your hiring and recruiting process

What you'll learn

Intelligently add diversity to your team

Hire the best candidates from the widest pool of people

Learn about subconscious bias and affinity bias

Learn about conscious bias

Minimize subconscious bias

Also learn about confirmation bias and first impression bias

Requirements

No prerequisites - just an open mind ready to learn

Description

Hire the best candidates and grow your organization by creating a more emotionally intelligent and wiser hiring and recruiting process in your organization.IDENTIFY YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS BIASSubconscious bias is so difficult to identify and reverse because most of us are in denial about having it in the first place. If asked whether they have subconscious bias, most people would confidently say that they either don't have it or have it minimally.EXERCISES TO CHECK YOUR BIASIt's one thing to reluctantly admit that you might have a bias, but it's another thing to be shown that you have a bias. In this course, we'll go over some easy exercises anyone can do in order to uncover the extent of their subconscious bias.REVERSING SUBCONSCIOUS BIASIt's not enough to fully realize that you have bias. The next step is to want to fix that, and to take the necessary actions to fix that. We'll go over things you can do to begin reversing your bias.BENEFITS OF THIS COURSEBy the end of this course, you will make your hiring process a more fair one to yourself and to your candidates. Everyone will win. You will get the best possible employees, and your candidates will be treated fairly and without prejudice, preconceived notions, or bias.Invest in yourself! Enroll today!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and welcome

Lecture 1 Introduction and welcome to this course on uncovering unconscious bias in hiring

Lecture 2 What is subconscious bias, and why it's such a paradox

Lecture 3 Diversity after getting rid of unconscious bias in order to hire the best people

Lecture 4 In-group belonging confusion

Lecture 5 Confirmation bias and first impression bias

Lecture 6 Pet peeves and "less reasonable" personal preferences causing subconscious bias

Section 2: Organizing the interview

Lecture 7 Write down your requirements and create quantifiable tests for candidates

Lecture 8 Bias in what you look for in candidates

Section 3: Blind resume screening

Lecture 9 Remove name, photo, gender, age, resume source from the screening

Section 4: Exercises to uncover subconscious bias

Lecture 10 Subconscious bias test 1: Circle of trust affinity bias or ingroup bias

Lecture 11 Subconscious bias test 2: father and son exercise

Lecture 12 Answer to subconscious bias test 2: father and son exercise

Lecture 13 Harvard implicit bias test

Section 5: Getting rid of bias through exposure

Lecture 14 Getting rid of bias through exposure

Lecture 15 Study on UB training (Unconscious bias training)

Section 6: During the interview

Lecture 16 Don't jump to conclusions too early during the interview

Section 7: Conclusion - thank you for being a great student

Lecture 17 Course certificate for this unconscious bias course: How to get it

Lecture 18 Thank you for being a great student in this unconscious bias course

Managers, employers, and recruiters: people who are in a hiring role