IWD | Recruiters reluctant to view female profiles when headhunting

Eliminating gender disparity from the workplace can often start with the recruitment process. Recruiters or hiring managers make a decision about who is shortlisted to attend an interview and, ultimately, who gets offered the job at the end.

And while many recruiters may think that their hiring processes have been freed from unconscious bias, new research has found that gender disparity is still rife in the recruitment space - particularly the headhunting stage.

A new report from LinkedIn has found that recruiters are 13% more likely to click on a man’s profile than on a women’s profile when headhunting candidates online for new roles – Fast Company reports.

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The Gender Insights Report – which was compiled by collating the data points of more than 610million LinkedIn members from more than 200 countries – extracted stark findings to suggest that recruiters treat male candidates more favourably. The study found that recruiters are three per cent less likely to send InMail to female candidates than males.