Bias Awareness and Mitigation in the Search &Screening Process

*Diversity Week Programing* The objective of this program is to increase participantknowledge and awareness around negative implicit associations. Byincreasing bias awareness, interviewers can reduce the impact ofthese associations on candidates of underrepresented groups in thesearch and screening process. Topics discussed include the blind spotsvs. bias, types of bias, career-related bias, and ways to mitigate biasin the search and selection process.