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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

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739 points firebaze | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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boohoo123 ◴[05 Feb 25 15:43 UTC] No.42950119[source]▶
There's a simple fix to removing discrimination in hiring practices that no one seems to notice. Remove all demographic questions from the application. Hide the name and gender and attach a applicant ID. It's as easy as that. Every job should be looking for the most qualified individual regardless of race, nationality, religion, and sex. Demographics in the application are a recipe for disaster on both sides of the isle.
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malfist ◴[05 Feb 25 15:55 UTC] No.42950315[source]▶
For every difficult and complex problem, there's a simple, easy and wrong solution.

Demographics questions on job applications do not get shown to recruiters nor interviewers.

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1. Manuel_D ◴[05 Feb 25 16:08 UTC] No.42950533[source]▶
> Demographics questions on job applications do not get shown to recruiters nor interviewers.

But Recruiters can glean this information from names and other information on resumes. And yes, many do deliberately try to use this information to decide who to interview. Recruiters at one of me previous employers linked to US census data on the gender distribution of names in their onboarding docs. They also created spreadsheets of ethnically affiliated fraternities/sororities and ethnic names.