Jeff Turner, EMEA Learning & Development Manager, Facebook In this session, hear from Facebook’s EMEA Learning & Development manager, Jeff Turner, on how to overcome biased recruiting in your organisation. For Facebook and many other companies, diversity and inclusion is a business imperative to them. Everyone know there’s a certain level of biased recruiting taking place but the question is how do you change people’s mindsets and tackle it? Jeff will discuss the different types of biases, unconscious biases and the approach they have used to overcome this.

2. How to overcome biased
recruiting
Jeff Turner
EMEA L&D Manager
Facebook

3. Hi I’m Jeff.

4. Who we areWhy is Diversity and Inclusion
so important to us?

6. First Impressions

7. bias
noun
a tendency to believe that some people, ideas, etc., are
better than others that usually results in treating some
people unfairly
verb
cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or
against someone or something

8. implicit
bias
Attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding,
actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner
Activated involuntarily and without an individual’s
awareness—developing over the course of a lifetime
through exposure to direct and indirect messages

9. Impact of a 1% Bias
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10. Impact of a 1% Bias
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11. small changes make a big difference
… and organisations and people who believe they are
meritocratic often have worse outcomes

13. Gender IAT
more readily
associate “males”
with “career” and
“females” with
“family”
more readily
associate “male”
with science and
“female” with the
arts
have an implicit
preference for
white people over
black people
76% 70% 75%
Gender-Science IAT Race IAT
have an implicit
preference for
able-bodied
people
76%
Disability IAT

14. Decades of social science research teach us that
stereotypes are self-fulfilling

16. Four Common Types of Bias
Performance
Competence/Likeability
Tradeoff
Performance
Attribution
Maternal Bias
UNDERSTAND
Impact
SURFACE
Bias
Take action to
COUNTERACT

17. Four Common Types of Bias
Performance

18. Four Common Types of Bias
Performance
Attribution

19. Four Common Types of Bias
Competence/Likeability
Tradeoff

20. Four Common Types of Bias
Maternal Bias

21. What You Can Do
• Become aware of your own biases or blindspots
• Build a company that acknowledges bias
• Structure decision-making with clear criteria
• Run teams for full participation and fair credit
• Push back on likeability penalty
• Manage parental leave
SURFACE & COUNTERACT

22. So what’s next?

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