Your Role in Understanding and Interrupting Unconscious Bias in Hiring
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Developing an expansive talent pipeline increases an organization's chances of hiring excellent candidates. As such, understanding how bias can influence the recruitment and hiring process is key to an organization's overall success. This workshop is designed for anyone involved in the recruiting/hiring process who wants to better understand how bias can influence job descriptions, interviews, and the candidate selection process. The workshop will guide participants through inclusive interviewing practices, including designing competency-based interview questions.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the different types of cognitive biases that may impact the hiring process.
- Learn how to write better job descriptions and competency-based interview questions that can help mitigate bias.
- Learn how to monitor and challenge first-impressions and the tendency to allow assumptions about 'fit' to influence the interview process.
- Learn tools for interrupting biases in hiring conversations and the decision-making process.
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Brittany Boone
Dr. Brittany Boone is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist and experienced diversity and inclusion professional . Prior to transitioning into the D&I space full-time, Dr. Boone worked in the insurance industry and spent several years facilitating diversity and inclusion (D&I) trainings and discussions with Farmers Insurance. For the last several years Brittany has worked as a diversity and inclusion consultant, where she works with clients in the beauty industry, entertainment industry, law firms, financial services sector, museums, and a host of other organization types both in the U.S. and abroad, to design, facilitate and deliver diversity & inclusion trainings, review on-set wardrobe and footage, train production teams and on-air talent, conduct culture assessments, and assist clients with the overall implementation of D&I strategic plans and goals.
Brittany holds a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Missouri-Columbia, an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Avila University in Kansas City, and a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a specialization in organization development and social change from Walden University.
Diego Carvajal
Diego Carvajal is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) Educator and Senior Consultant with VallotKarp Consulting. He works with global corporations, law firms, and museums in developing multi-year strategic DEI plans, global culture assessments, and educational seminars. He also works on-set and in consultation with TV shows including America's Got Talent, Project Runway, and the Real Housewives franchises. His clients include NBC Universal, MGM Studios, Sidley Austin LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Bacardi Limited.
He began his career working as an associate for Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft and then as a senior associate with Hogan Lovells, where he represented sovereign countries and financial institutions on a broad range of international finance transactions in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. He also worked as associate general counsel of Sterling National Bank.
Diego holds a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a B.A. from New York University. He also proudly serves on the Lideres board of LatinoJustice, the country's foremost civil rights organization for Latinos.