Squiggly Careers
#374 How biases can get in the way of your career development
Nov 21, 2023
The podcast discusses biases that hinder career development, including affinity bias, confirmation bias, and recency bias. The hosts share personal experiences and offer actionable steps to escape their influence. They emphasize the importance of challenging assumptions and reflecting on past experiences to overcome biases.
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- Affinity bias can limit career development by creating an echo chamber within our career community, but we can overcome it by seeking out diverse perspectives and collaborations.
- Confirmation bias can hinder career development by preventing us from being open to new opportunities and different ways of doing things, but we can combat it by challenging our assumptions and considering alternative perspectives.
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Affinity Bias
Affinity bias occurs when we seek out and feel more comfortable with people who have things in common with us, such as shared experiences, values, or backgrounds. This bias can limit our learning and career development by creating an echo chamber within our career community, focusing on strong ties rather than weak ties, and hindering our ability to collaborate with people who are different from us. To increase awareness of affinity bias, we can scan for similarity in the 10 people we spend the most time with and take action by escaping our function and spending time with people from other departments or industries.
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