How To Eliminate Bias in Interview Panel Decision Meetings?

 

You’ve been in interview panel meetings with multiple interviewers from different hierarchy levels? Then you’ve probably noticed that it can be challenging to have an unbiased meeting. Specifically, when senior participants share their opinion upfront and more junior participants/subordinates do not dare to express the opposite opinion.

Let me thus share with you how paper clips will eliminate bias in the decision meeting:

  • It is vital that none of the participants share their view upfront. Instead, the meeting starts with the distribution of 3 paper clips for each participant.

 

  • All meeting participants put their paper clip ‘vote’ on the table AT THE SAME TIME, choosing between 3 clips (the perfect candidate), 2 clips (a pretty good candidate), 1 clip (big doubts) and 0 clips (no way).

 

  • When all participants have voted similarly, the discussion & decision is short. Having voted differently, participants share their rationale so that the panel can come to a joint decision.

 

Just try the paper clip method and you’ll be convinced by the results!

 

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