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Chait: Diversity hiring issues stem from downstream processes, not candidate pipelines
“One of the insights that we had from the research was that most people sort of offhandedly perceive diversity is a top of funnel problem. They say, oh, there's not enough women engineers out there. Well, it turns out that's not necessarily always the case. Oft…”
Recruiting lacks classic big data scale because hiring happens individually
“When you talk about data, like people are always talking about big data in hiring and recruiting, you often don't have like classically think of as big data. You often do things one at a time.”
Greenhouse limited its diversity product scope to target unconscious bias
“The third is that we consciously chose, no pun intended to limit the scope of the product around solving issues of unconscious bias.”
Chait: Providing corporate diversity data without context creates business risk
“And we thought if we just gave them data without the context behind the data, that that would open them up and by extension ourselves up to potential problems.”
Chait: Hiring is a six-figure bet made with shockingly little data
“Every time you make a hire, you're basically placing a six figure annual bet on that person. And I can't think of another place in any organization where you make as big of a decision with as much financial impact with as little information as when most compan…”
Greenhouse enforces structured hiring by requiring identical questions for all candidates
“Like we take a position on structured hiring that you should have a hiring process. You should ask every candidate for a job, you know, the same questions in the same order. And give the ability to compare apples to apples.”