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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 8930624" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think we can hold these two ideas in our head at the same time:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In a perfect world, people would get hired purely based on their skill at the task they are being hired for.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In reality, nobody has ever gotten hired purely based on their skill at the task they are being hired for.</li>
</ol>Acknowledging the second point means that we have to act, in the real world, as if people doing hiring are flawed and subject to unconscious biases and societal norms and availability pools and timing and budgets and all sorts of things that affect hiring decisions. Because that's what reality is. Acknowledging that second point also means, that to get the most skilled hire, we need to actively counteract the limitaions of reality, and, to some degree at least, accept that we're never going to do a perfect job of it.One of the realities (especially in the US) is that white people have been over-represented in most lines of employment historically. One of those counteractions is proactively looking at talent from more socially marginalized pools, harvesting unusual people from unusual places with unusual skills and unique life experiences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 8930624, member: 2067"] I think we can hold these two ideas in our head at the same time: [LIST=1] [*]In a perfect world, people would get hired purely based on their skill at the task they are being hired for. [*]In reality, nobody has ever gotten hired purely based on their skill at the task they are being hired for. [/LIST] Acknowledging the second point means that we have to act, in the real world, as if people doing hiring are flawed and subject to unconscious biases and societal norms and availability pools and timing and budgets and all sorts of things that affect hiring decisions. Because that's what reality is. Acknowledging that second point also means, that to get the most skilled hire, [B]we need to actively counteract the limitaions of reality[/B], and, to some degree at least, accept that we're never going to do a perfect job of it. One of the realities (especially in the US) is that white people have been over-represented in most lines of employment historically. One of those counteractions is proactively looking at talent from more socially marginalized pools, harvesting unusual people from unusual places with unusual skills and unique life experiences. [/QUOTE]

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