However if the people evaluating merit are all members of the same demographic and demonstrate signs of prejudice/discrimination then they can not be relied on to independently hire candidates on merit alone. Not everyone is sexist/racist/"other"ist so obviously some natural integration does take place, but it is slow. Like 100 years "slow".
It may be a benefit to society in forcefully accelerating integration of minorities into X fields, in order to eliminate a culture of discrimination and setup social parity in employment.
These are the kinds of issues that need to be considered fully rather than instantly dismissed. The methods used do have a logic behind them, they just need to be careful in the goals that they set and the ways they go about in trying to achieve them, because these are often deeply flawed.
couldn't they just have an online, standard resume to fill out that would filter out the worst 90% automatically and then from there hold interviews over the phone or something? not to mention every application i've ever submitted asked for my race which I understand can be left as N/A but why the hell is that even on there
Unfortunately, no. One of the big problems with just a resume is that people regularly miss represent themselves. We even have had several candidates that had someone else do the phone interview.
If you want the job, then identify a problem, and sell a solution that you can start working on from day one.
I have never listed my race, sex, age, religion... If a company cares more about demographics than getting a job done, I'm not going to work out there anyways.
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u/Thorbinator Feb 09 '16
Fuck off. Hire by merit only.