DEI. The whole point is to make the hiring process blind to everything about the hire that isn’t relevant to the job. It could be a lack of social skills, disabilities, being a minority, or a history of weed usage - all shouldn’t be issues for an employer to know nor care about.
All hiring postings and transactions should be done through a platform operated by the government, to weed out ghost jobs and to prevent employers from having unwarranted bias.
If you mean networking sounds like nepotism or cronyism, it’s not really if a company do its best to have set rules and grade the interview candidates with set objective criteria. Not all companies are like that though.
That may be the reality, but it doesn’t/shouldn’t have to be.
What’s the alternative?
DEI. The whole point is to make the hiring process blind to everything about the hire that isn’t relevant to the job. It could be a lack of social skills, disabilities, being a minority, or a history of weed usage - all shouldn’t be issues for an employer to know nor care about.
All hiring postings and transactions should be done through a platform operated by the government, to weed out ghost jobs and to prevent employers from having unwarranted bias.
Hiring based on merit?
Define the metrics for hiring based on merit.
If you mean networking sounds like nepotism or cronyism, it’s not really if a company do its best to have set rules and grade the interview candidates with set objective criteria. Not all companies are like that though.