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Discussion on: Could your recruitment process be discouraging female developers?

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Sebastian Vargr • Edited

I think we agree on the first part, that the process is robotic. I’ve been in the exact problem you describe.

But the latter i will have to take your word on. I still think a mitigating action could be to work on confidence. Especially because of the biases you mention.

Even if’ the recruiter did all the things mentioned, in the current state of things, wouldn’t a women still be loaded with the same bias of less confidence?

How would we solve for that?

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Charlotte

OK apologies I must have misunderstood :)

I don't think it's a purely confidence thing. In fact most women are totally confident in their abilities to do their jobs. So if the process was less demoralizing I think you'd get the best out of everyone.

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Sebastian Vargr

No problem, I am not always the best at expressing my self. :)

Yeah, It’s lack of confidence in the hiring managers/process etc. right? at least that was my assumption.

I was thinking that might be cause for anxiety, meaning poorer interview performance than someone without it.