Unconscious bias appears in job descriptions, which has informed our hiring decisions and diversity makeup. In this session, you will learn how to analyze and write job descriptions to mitigate bias. You will learn to highlight the dimensions of invisible diversity that are crucial to job success. They include learning and conflict styles, life experiences, attention to detail, ability to grow into the position, and professional skills. Data shows that the greater the diversity dimensions, the more productive and resilient an organization is. You will practice a critical job description review to develop questions for the hiring manager and coworkers to help you bring salient clarity to the job description to hire the most diverse people available now. Organizations seek to become more diverse to expand their hiring pools and gain diversity advantages. Job descriptions are the leading edge of the hiring process, facilitating people's joining your organization.
Learning Outcome 1: • Participants will learn to create job descriptions that reflect the position's needs and mitigate dimensions of diversity.
Learning Outcome 2: • Develop a palate of questions to take back to your office and discuss them with your hiring managers.
Learning Outcome 3: • Compile uncovering questions to elicit critical stakeholder data into the job description.
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Lorne Epstein, SHRM SCP
Talent Acquisition Leader
Electric Cow LLC
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Lorne Epstein, SHRM-SCP, MSOD, is a social scientist, keynote, and Vistage speaker who consults with senior leaders on improving decision-making outcomes by reducing biases. Over 50,000 professionals have taken his workshops worldwide. He has been quoted in Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. His research focuses on improving decision-making and reducing the impacts of unconscious bias in the workplace. Lorne has been leading experiential workshops since 1993. His book, You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job has been downloaded over a half-million times worldwide. Lorne is currently studying cognitive neuroscience at the master’s level at George Mason University. He was admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Psi Chi, The National Honor Society of Psychology.
I was a talent acquisition leader for 23 years supporting teams in the United States, Brazil and India. Many of my teams won awards for their performance. I wrote the National Talent Acquisition and Diversity Hiring plan for the United States Forest Service.