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Do you seek to have diversity in your interview
process?
80%
8%
Yes
Don’t Know
12%
No
A
n encouraging 80% of respondents seek to have diversity in their interview process. Over the past five years
we have seen an increase in the use of mixed panels to improve outcomes for under-represented groups.
Naturally everyone brings their personal biases into the process of evaluating candidates which is why it’s
important to have interviewers from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible.
From the candidate’s perspective, having a diverse interview panel or interview discussions with a range of
different people, shows that you’re committed to valuing different opinions. It can help reduce the impact of
Stereotype Threat - when people are at risk of living up to a negative stereotype about their group. For example,
female candidates are more likely to accept a job if there is a woman on the interview panel.
Casad & Bryant, University of Missouri-St. Louis, ‘Addressing Stereotype Threat is Critical to Diversity and Inclusion in
Organizational Psychology’, 2016.
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