" Picturing Your Ideal Hire May Set You Up for Biased Decisions "

HR Recruiting
" Picturing Your Ideal Hire May Set You Up for Biased Decisions "

Research Fact :
If a manager seeking to fill an open position imagines the “ideal” employee before searching for an applicant, the result may be increased stereotyping .
Methodology
 Research participants who were asked to imagine an ideal worker were more likely to envision a white employee; their likelihood of picturing a BLACK candidate was near ZERO !
 In a subsequent experiment, participants who had imagined an ideal employee ranked a job applicant with a stereotypically black name (“Jamal”) LESS  favorably than applicants with stereotypically white names (“Jay,” “Gregg,” “Brad,” “Todd”).

Courtesy :  a research  team led by Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi of the University of North Carolina