Stop Hiring People You Want to Drink With: Affinity Bias in Recruiting
If your hiring decision includes any version of 'I could see myself having a drink with this person,' you have a bias problem masquerading as an instinct. Affinity bias doesn't feel like bias when it's happening. It feels like good judgment.
The result is teams that get along well, think alike, and produce predictable work. Which is fine until the market shifts, the problem changes, or you need someone to tell you something you don't want to hear.
Derek Polowyj from Eden Scott studied recruitment academically while practising it in deep technology — which gives him an unusual lens on why…
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