Recruitment | Could your learning management system benefit from a free Unconscious Bias course?

Unconscious bias is one of those strange things that almost all recruiters and HR professionals know that they should probably be making a bigger effort to tackle. However, many of us are looking for the perfect solution. A silver bullet, that will be easy to implement and highly effective and hopefully not too expensive.

Perhaps you’ve been looking for this silver bullet for a while? Well we are not that silver bullet perfect solution. What hireful can offer you is a chance for real progress on this difficult issue.

Progress rather than perfection

It’s not possible to “defeat” unconscious bias. You are fighting against 300,000 years of evolution that has taught us as humans to jump to lots of conclusions. This was a good system when our day to day environment was full of mortal danger. In today’s modern society, it causes us to make lots of bad decisions full of prejudice.

Whilst we would love to “cure” the world of unconscious bias it’s not really possible, especially for a small recruitment software company. That said, our aim is to be “the UK’s most helpful recruitment technology company” and we wanted to make an impact. So we build an eLearning course where the aim is to raise awareness of the issue and teach delegates to slow down their thinking and look for the evidence. These simple techniques can help to minimize the effects of unconscious bias.