pokoko on 14 October 2015
| binary solo said: And in terms of hiring people based only on technical merit, there are actually social and workplace benefits to hiring someone who is in a minority in a profession who is competent ahead of hiring someone who represents the majority who is more competent. Also most employers don't just take technical competence into account when making hiring decisions, they look at lots of factors and weight each factor differently. No one is advocating hiring people who are incompetent merely because they represent a demographic minority in the industry. What people should consider is the longer term benefit to the industry of hiring people who were straight B students but are of a demographic that is under-represented in the industry over someone who is a straight A student but is of a demographic that is over-represented in the industry. |
Unfortunately, that part is not true. People do sometimes get hired because of their minority status and sometimes that does have negative consequences.
