The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by IncreasePosts on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:06AM (#42950506)

This assumes that the hiring managers or whoever are honest people who are not racist or bigoted in any manner and only display incidental racism or subconscious bias. If I see a HBCU as an applicant's alma matter, it's almost certain that they are black.

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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by Manuel_D on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:09AM (#42950554)

Correct, and that's why hiding the fact that the candidate attended an HBCU would avert that kind of bias.

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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by AdamN on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:13AM (#42950618)

So no colleges and universities on resumes?

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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by Manuel_D on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:25AM (#42950825)

You could share data on the college, like the median SAT score of admits or the admissions rate.

And I'm not entirely sure that omitting colleges entirely would be such a bad idea. Colleges apply selective admission criteria all the time, for athletes and legacy admits. Skills based screening would probably work better.

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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by roughly on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:26AM (#42950838)

Well, then you have to account for certain jobs and hobbies being coded, as well as word choices in the personal statement. Once you blank all that out, though, we should be good to go.

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