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"Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Virtual Working Group Series"
Session 2: Addressing Bias in Internal and External Hiring
March 10, 2021 | 12:00-1:30pm (EST) WAIT LIST STARTED

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As organizations respond to growing calls for racial justice and gender equality, existing commitments to diversity along these – and other (e.g., age, sexuality) – lines have only grown deeper. While this represents a profoundly positive shift, translating it into action and, ultimately, results, presents new challenges for HR leaders.  Given this, it is not surprising that a recent CAHRS survey found that DE&I is a top priority for HR leaders heading into 2021.  This CAHRS Series of working groups is aimed at helping our partner companies address these challenges and explore how to prepare HR leaders for companies’ reinvigorated approaches to DE&I. Attendees to these sessions include individuals responsible for different aspects of their companies’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.          

In this second working group in the series, Professor JR Keller and Professor Sean Fath will lead a discussion about how companies addressing bias in their internal and external hiring practices.  Some of the questions we may address include:

•    What factors have you found to adversely impact the objectivity, fairness, and/or accuracy of external hiring decisions? What strategies may be used to address and/or mitigate these issues?
•    Are you concerned with issues of inclusivity and/or bias in the way promotion, success planning, or other internal hiring practices take place within your organization? Have you experimented with strategies to address and/or mitigate these issues? What has worked? What hasn’t worked?
•    While HR can come up with policies and practices for addressing bias in the hiring process, it is often the case that individual hiring managers fail to follow these policies.  Have you had any notable successes or failures in getting hiring managers to buy into these efforts?


About our CAHRS Series of Working Groups
The CAHRS Series of working groups are designed to examine a particular theme or topic from a number of different perspectives. The other sessions included in the “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion” working group series are listed below and can be found in the events section of the CAHRS website.  Individuals are encouraged to sign up for as many of the sessions in the series as match their interests and availability. 

•    Facilitating Constructive DE&I Conversations in the Workplace | February 24, 2021,
•    Building Inclusive Cultures | April 13, 2021,
•    DE&I Analytics | May 6, 2021. 

Our virtual working groups are kept small (15-20 participants) to allow for rich discussion and best practice sharing.  Given the limited size of each session, we ask that you only register for a session if you will be able to attend for the duration.  Prior to the session, attendees should give some thought to the questions included in the description, so they are prepared to share with the group.  We also strongly prefer that participants be on camera during the session to allow for more engaging interaction.  If for some reason after you sign up for the working group, something comes up last minute (especially while many of us are working from home), it would be great to get even a last minute e-mail advising us that you cannot attend as we sometimes have a waiting list.