Attracting and Recruiting Women
Recruitment and hiring processes can disadvantage minority candidates if they are not scrutinized for bias. The resources in this section can help companies identify and avoid different types of biases in their procedures, and include a range of free tools for developing job descriptions, interview questions, selection committees, and evaluation rubrics. Although national laws governing the legality of various interview questions vary, research shows that structured interview processes and behavioral-based interviews reduce gender bias 1. The resources below provide guidance and examples of questions to ask and avoid. Proprietary AI-based screening and selection systems are not included due to cost considerations.
Create Inclusive Recruitment and Hiring Processes
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Human Resources: Recruitment and Selection
| This free online course covers the skills and knowledge needed to create equitable recruiting and selection processes.
| Open University
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Recruiters’ Guide to Interrupting Bias
| This resource provides techniques to identify and interrupt bias in 5 core recruiting processes. A framework for writing inclusive job descriptions can be found here.
| Lexio
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Inclusive Recruitment
| Developed for a specific organization, this toolkit provides a step-by-step approach to inclusive recruitment, from writing job descriptions to forming a selection committee to onboarding. The appendices contain several assessment tools and checklists that can be helpful to other organizations.
| CGIAR
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Toolkit to Mitigate Bias in Recruitment & Hiring
| This resource provides guidance to organizations to help them mitigate gender, racial, and other hidden biases in their recruiting and hiring processes.
| The Avarna Group
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Conduct Unbiased Interviews
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Employer Interviewing Guide: Best Practices
| This site contains multiple links to Monster’s tips on conducting interviews, covering such topics as interviewing techniques, interview questions, and blocking out biases.
| Monster Worldwide
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Hiring and Recruiting: Interview Toolkit
| This toolkit identifies possible sources of bias in the interview process and provides sample questions and notes templates designed to mitigate them.
| Bias Interrupters
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How to conduct an interview: An interview checklist
| This resource provides tips and links to help non-HR professionals conduct equitable interviews.
| Workable
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Interview Question Toolkit
| This toolkit contains a variety of interview questions on multiple subject areas, as well as sample evaluation rubrics for behavioral and other types of interviews documented to reduce gender bias.
| The Management Center
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