Social & Cultural Bias in Recruitment: Mari Järvinen on highlighting the impact of culture on your recruitment process

Oops! I'm Biased

What is culture? Given the general nature of the definition (i.e. a set of common norms and beliefs a group of people adheres to), the term is hard to define: A company, a generation, a country, a football team. And what if we use the culture we belong to as a reference point for our behaviour, interaction and expectations of others?

Organisational psychologist, Mari Järvinen, discusses cultural and social bias, why it has such a wide scope, which moments of the recruitment process are most susceptible to it, why most traditional assessments are riddled with cultural bias, how to minimize it, and shares helpful resources to learn more about cultural difference and cognitive biases in the workplace.

Connect with our host and guest:

Katharina Koidl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharina-koidl-953032191/

Mari Järvinen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mari-jarvinen-profounder/

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