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Equitable Hiring Recommendations

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Equitable Hiring Recommendations

The Brown Center for Career Exploration expects all employer partners to be committed to a bias-free hiring process.

Systemic discrimination and subconscious biases can permeate the hiring process, disadvantaging students of color, LGBTQ+ students, women, and other historically underrepresented groups. More than 85% of Gen Z’ers say that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace are very important and that a potential employer’s commitment to diversity would be an important factor in their decision to accept a job. We hope that the materials below help support employers working to create a diverse workplace and a fair and equitable hiring environment.

This page is by no means exhaustive, and is intended as a first step in promoting collaboration between our Center and employers to help create the best possible professional experiences. We invite students and employers to provide feedback on this page and assist us in making this resource as useful and impactful as possible.

National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Resources

NACE’s Principles for Ethical Professional Practice are an important resource to review as you begin the hiring process.
NACE also provides a variety of other equity and inclusion resources which we encourage all employers to explore. For example, NACE’s guide on “Conscious Job Seeking” features questions that students can use to assess an employer’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Employers should consider reviewing these questions in advance to assess their own commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Interrupting Bias

This Bias Interrupters guide from MIT provides a brief but comprehensive overview of ways in which bias can unknowingly permeate the hiring process.
Project Implicit is a nonprofit organization which provides tests to help individuals identify their own implicit biases. It also provides resources and services to help address bias within your organization.
Catalyst, a nonprofit to promote women in the workplace, provides this list of eleven implicit biases which could be affecting hiring.

Equitable and Inclusive Hiring

This “playbook” of hiring tips from Forbes is thorough and emphasizes the importance of seeing equitable hiring as not a list of boxes to check off, but a comprehensive strategy and approach to hiring in which equity permeates all aspects of the process.
LinkedIn provides these resources for equitable hiring, including one website which includes crucial information on how to seriously implement “diverse hiring” and not just use the phrase.

Equitable hiring which centers the principles of diversity and inclusion creates a workplace that is better for all parties, whether they are an interviewee, recruiter, or CEO. We encourage all employers looking to engage with Brown students to review these resources to ensure a fair hiring process.