CodeSignal strongly believes in the importance of hiring practices that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). Successful DE&I practices in technical hiring include:
- Opening up the top of the funnel to more, and more diverse, candidates through objective skills screening rather than resume review
- Read more about how skills assessment promotes diversity in tech in Forbes' article, Want More Diversity In Silicon Valley? Offer An Objective Skills Test
- Reaching out to recent grads from less commonly sought-after colleges and universities in your university recruiting efforts
- Read more about partnering with diverse university partners in our resource, How to Expand Your Target Schools to Find Top Technical Talent
- Engaging experts to conduct adverse impact analyses of technical assessments
- These analyses ensure that assessment results are not unfairly favoring test-takers along lines of gender, race, or other protected classes.
- Read more about adverse impact analysis and other factors to consider when setting a technical hiring bar in our guide, 5 things to keep in mind when setting a technical bar for your assessments
- Reviewing coding tasks for biased language
- Read more about how to do this in our guide, Creating Coding Tasks that Reduct Bias in Technical Hiring
- Conducting structured interviews to ensure candidates are evaluated consistently
- Read more about best practices for structured technical interviews in our guide, How to Run a Structured Interview with CodeSignal: A guide for technical interviewers
- Ensuring candidates are evaluated fairly using clearly-defined metrics
- Learn more about using metrics to make hiring decision and more best practices for DE&I in this resource, 3 Key Takeaways on DE&I from Greenhouse’s Building Belonging Event
- Listening to what candidates have to say about your tech hiring processes
- Read about what we learned from students and recent grads in our article, We Asked Students About the Tech Hiring Process — Here’s What They Want You to Know
Have more questions about creating inclusive technical assessments? Contact support@codesignal.com