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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

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739 points firebaze | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | 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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healsdata ◴[05 Feb 25 16:10 UTC] No.42950561[source]▶
Everything is easy until you account for the real world.

A disabled person who has to request accommodations for the application process will immediately be outed for having a disability. The same applies for people who speak different languages.

Beyond that, the application is only one place in which discrimination occurs.

- It also happens during interviews which are much harder to anonymize. - It also happens in testing and requirements that, while not directly correlated to job performance, do serve to select specific candidates. - It also happens on the job, which can lead to a field of work not seeming like a safe option for some people. - It also happens in education, which can prevent capable people from becoming qualified.

Lowering the bar is not the right answer (unless it is artificially high) but neither is pretending that an anonymous resume will fix everything.

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1. clcaev ◴[05 Feb 25 16:30 UTC] No.42950913[source]▶
> A disabled person should probably not be manning ATC.

This depends upon the disability and what reasonable accommodations could be made.

2. toast0 ◴[05 Feb 25 16:41 UTC] No.42951115[source]▶
Many (or most) vision, hearing and speech impairments would likely be disqualifying for ATC; if they were to the point of needing accomidation during an interview. Mobility impairments would likely be able to be reasonably accomidated though; someone without use of their legs could work in an ATC facility that can be accessed without stairs, which would exclude some towers but not all of them. The workstation height may need to be adjustable as well, but that's not an unreasonable accomidation either.
3. healsdata ◴[05 Feb 25 17:12 UTC] No.42951748[source]▶
Let's see. The OP didn't specify they were talking about the ATC, I gave two examples of ways you could de-anonimyze resumes in the normal application process; I'm sure there's others. And glad to hear you don't think people with cancer or those who use wheelchairs should be allowed to work at the ATC, I guess.