Bias - The Hidden Crisis in Hiring
Gender Bias - Ageism Bias - Name Bias - Affinity Bias - Beuty Bias - Anchor Bias - Confirmation Bias - Conformity Bias Horn Effect - Halo Effect - Authority Bias - Statu Quo Bias
Hiring failures are rarely caused by a lack of candidates. They are caused by how decisions are made.
Most hiring processes rely on:
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Unstructured interviews
Subjective impressions
Inconsistent evaluation criteria
Groupthink and seniority bias
Overconfidence in intuition
Human judgment degrades under complexity and hiring is complex.Yet it remains one of the least instrumented decisions in business.
Bias Is Not a Moral Problem
It’s a Decision Architecture Problem
Common biases in hiring:
Halo & horn effects
Similarity bias (“people like me”)
Anchoring on early interviews
Recency bias
Overweighting confidence over competence
These biases persist — even among experienced executives. Why?
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Because the hiring process lacks structure.
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There is no decision scaffold to counter cognitive distortion.
