ASR staff attend implicit bias training

Several members of ASR attended a training on “Identifying and Challenging Implicit Bias in Staff Searches.” The Office of Human Resources staff who presented the workshop shared best practices for recruiting and hiring. This information will be helpful for the ASR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee as they work to enhance ASR’s recruiting, search and hiring practices. Some of the key takeaways included the importance of increasing candidate pools by promoting new jobs outside of the typical ways the University recruits and making sure to avoid taking shortcuts in the hiring process to move things along, which can result in implicit bias.