Ex-LinkedIn exec claims site compounds diversity issues

A former LinkedIn Executive has criticised the firm for contributing to recruitment biases, compounding the professional networking site’s recent problems.

Dave Foley, the former Leader of a Global Sales Unit at LinkedIn, said the site made it too easy to sort candidates based on where they previously worked or were educated – Quartz reports.

Explaining that the site’s search metrics help recruiters to foreground attendance at prestigious schools and universities, or work at big-name firms, Foley believes that a new generation of recruitment tools are going to enter the recruitment sphere.

He said: “Many as-good or better candidates are often overlooked because they don’t work or study in traditionally biased institutions like Harvard or McKinsey.”