How Do You Know if You're Biased?

The Ready has a habit of disrupting the established way of doing things, but we've never really looked at our hiring process... until now. In the last few months, we've radically overhauled the way we making hiring decisions by asking questions like, "Can we design a process that reduces bias and homogeny? Can we design a process that focuses on what we want rather than what we don't?"

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans talk about the inner workings of The Ready's new system, the rationale behind it, and what early results are telling us about the work ahead to make it better. Later, they're joined by Kate Glazebrook, cofounder of Applied, who deepens our understanding of the biases and cognitive gymnastics inherent in hiring, while making us feel a little better about our struggles thus far. If you make hiring decisions, this one is a must.

Learn more about Kate on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Learn more about Be Applied and their approach at their website.

Mentioned Resources:

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Iris Bohnet, author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design

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