Workshop’s Topic: The hiring process typically involves three key steps: initial screening based on standard test scores, evaluation of candidates’ quality and fit, and the final hiring decision. The second step, assessing candidates’ quality and fit, is crucial for the progression of the selection process. This paper investigates biases in the hiring step of candidate quality rating. The authors find that discriminations (e.g., racial) can be hidden in a seemingly equal mean of ratings and propose that using similarity (vs. valence) judgments can reduce the correlation between evaluators’ racial stereotypes and their quality ratings.

Time and Location: 10:30 AM (GMT+8), Room A523 (School of Management)

Language: Bilingual (Chinese and English)