Blind-Hiring


The word Blind Hiring itself hold so much suspense that I thought of exposing it.

Managed to collate few definitions from Google and from other Blogs.

1. Blind’ or anonymised hiring refers to the technique of removing personal information from candidate applications during the assessment process. This is most often candidate names, but in some instances, like on Applied, it goes further: aiming to remove all socio-demographic details that might affect decision-making, such as age, home address, and even education. Source ( beapplied )

2. Blind hiring is an HR practice that aims at reducing biases during the hiring process. The idea is to promote talent acquisition based on a transparent method and hire eligible candidates regardless of their name, gender, mother tongue, religion, and socioeconomic background. It also forbids the hiring managers to ask about the academic qualification and professional experience of a candidate during the hiring process. In other words, a candidate is not judged by his or her pedigree but by the skills and talent they can offer to an organization. ( Source Recruitloop)

3. The goal of blind hiring is to judge potential hires exclusively based on their abilities.

Meaning, all personal information about the candidate is not considered.

In this sense, resumes are a thing of the past. Names, previous companies worked for, alma maters, and so forth are not weighted at all before making a decision about a candidate. Opinions about job candidates are solely based on their demonstrated work and skills.( Source : psionline )

The above definitions helps us to understand that blind hiring is just neutral hiring without any biasness.

It coined a new word called Blind CVS, where no details are presented which can lead to any biasness.

How does Blind hiring help.

1. It’s surely brings transparency in hiring , removing all sorts of biasness.

2. Improve diversity hiring. ( Diversity is beyond gender. It brings race, caste, religion, etc)

3. It focuses on skills and competency for doing the job.


Looking forward to contribute more in this space...


Cheers!!


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