Re:Show HN: Fight bias with Details Redacted
by simantel on Thursday October 18, 2012 @07:47PM
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Right now everything is being done by hand, so it's totally configurable. But I imagined email addresses would be redacted, yes.
It brings up an interesting point, though - perhaps something that ranked the various components of a resume would be more useful. Rather than simply redacting the email, for instance, I could assign it a value based on the respectability of the domain and the applicant's choice of username.
School could similarly be ranked by some objective score (which might provide the added anti-bias measure of anonymizing presumed nationality). Work could be reduced to number of years in a given industry, at least for the purpose of a once-over of your candidates.
I like being able to round file resumes from [email protected] and domains like hotmail, msn, or aol.