Hiring diverse teams with an anonymous recruitment process
summary
A company builds a fully-anonymous recruitment system on Ruby on Rails: applicants submit a mobile number, a cover letter, five skills they have and five they want, then a Slack interview, a technical take-home test and finally deanonymisation on office visit. User research finds women omit soft skills unless prompted, automated replies feel inhuman, long take-home tests exclude people with caring responsibilities, and vague job listings repel applicants; concrete prompts, human contact and shorter or optional tests change who applies.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46Once upon a time..
- 3:58People want to showcase "soft" stalls alongside technical ones
- 5:23Jobseekers want human connection (+ they want the lowdown on what it's really like to work with you)
- 7:06Lengthy tests and at home exercises are not inclusive
- 8:05Your job listing is just as important as the application process
- 9:03If we really care about diversity and inclusion, we need to listen
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