Unconscious bias in the hiring process impacts which applicants are contacted for interviews. Therefore, applicants whose personal characteristics the hiring team unconsciously prefers tend to receive interviews and job offers. As a result, the workforce typically becomes homogenous.

Blind hiring involves removing personal information from job applications. Eliminating clues about an applicant’s name, gender, age, and ethnicity helps reduce unconscious bias in the hiring process. As a result, blind hiring helps evaluate an applicant based on their skills, qualifications, and potential. These factors foster diversity within the company.

Provide Transparency in the Hiring Process

Blind hiring ensures applicants are objectively evaluated and hired based on their abilities and potential rather than personal attributes. This transparency builds trust among your workforce and enhances the employee experience.

Improve Hiring Decisions

Minimizing unconscious bias in the hiring process leads to more effective hiring decisions. For instance, assessing an applicant based on their skills and experience results in a more accurate determination of their fit for the role and company. This alignment increases the likelihood of hiring the best applicant.

Promote Fairness

Because employees are hired based on their skills and qualifications, your company promotes fairness and equal opportunities. As a result, employees can demonstrate their contributions, results, and potential to be considered for promotions. These activities foster diversity within your company.

Foster Diversity

Blind hiring fosters diversity within your organization. For instance, removing personal identifiers from job applications provides candidates from underrepresented groups with opportunities to work for your company.

Strengthen the Bottom Line

Fostering diversity within your workforce provides additional employee ideas, perspectives, and experiences. These factors support creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. They also strengthen the bottom line.

Methods to Embrace Blind Hiring

Choose among these methods to implement blind hiring:

• Educate your hiring team on unconscious bias.
• Craft inclusive job postings with the required skills and gender-neutral language.
• Use diverse sources to attract applicants.
• Anonymize application materials to focus on skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Develop predetermined questions that assess the skills and qualifications required for a role.
• Implement clear evaluation metrics and scoring criteria to objectively make hiring decisions.
• Use structured interviews with standardized questions to evaluate applicants.

Would You Like Help Introducing Blind Hiring?

Eliminating clues about an applicant’s name, gender, age, and ethnicity reduces unconscious bias in the hiring process. As a result, blind hiring helps evaluate applicants based on their skills, qualifications, and potential. These factors foster diversity within your company.

Arlington Resources can help you with blind hiring to foster diversity within your workforce. Contact us to learn more today.