My name is Gabriela Suarez, I’m People & Culture Manager in Nolte. The aim of this presentation is to talk about Diversity during the hiring process.

1. Together, we
can go further.

2. Is your Hiring Process inclusive?
Gabriela Suarez
May 31st, 2019
How to give underrepresented candidates an equal hiring experience

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What do we know about the Hiring Process?
➔ The Hiring Process is one of the most important aspects of HR in any company.
➔ During the last couple of years, with the increasing discussions and researches about
inclusion and diversity, this became even more special.
➔ Technology is changing everything and allow us to think about a different - and, why not - in a
better world, where byas can be detected and minimized.

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The Unconscious Biases
Most common assumptions when interviewing:
★ The “job hopper”
★ “Personal data” judges
★ Banks vs techie companies
★ Privilege candidates vs potential.
★ 40-year-old coders
None of that should factor into the first part of the screening process when deciding whether to contact a
candidate!

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We, as interviewers, have a critical
role and a great power; and great
power comes with great
responsibility.
Define if we want to be aligned or
alienated must be our first one job
on a daily basis.

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Change the paradigm!
Is your Hiring Process inclusive?
We'll never been free from bias, but using a diversity recruitment strategy
that focuses on our actions and that holds us accountable to our peers will
help us improve.

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What could you do starting today?
★ Train yourself. Work on it! There’re a lot of diversity trainings online, understand your own biases and work
on defeating them.
★ Plan your D&I strategy: evaluate your workplace through discussion groups, surveys and perhaps
independent consultants
★ Is your job posting just for men? Explicitly invite underrepresented people to apply in the body of your job
post.
★ Do you run whiteboard interviews for every role? They evaluate candidates' knowledge of a very specific
thing—algorithms and data structures—with no consideration of the rest of their skills.
★ Understand the minorities in your community: Get in contact with fb groups, meetups, ONGs. Sponsor
their events. Get to know them and open your business to them
★ Embrace a growth mindset! Go beyond what you know, try to understand technical aspects so you can
grow with the industry
★ Reduce assumptions: Develop a genuine interest in knowing people and their stories.

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Sounds nice but…
Why?

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Organizations with a diverse workforce outperform their non-diverse counterparts by an average
of 35%. Better gender diversity also leads to a 14% net profit.
The uncomfortable truth is that the technology industry today is not a place in which everyone, of
any gender, race, disability, religion, sexuality, socio-economic background, can thrive and succeed.
It’s not just a coincidence that in Nolte, 40% of the engineering team are women. It takes passion,
conviction and hard work, and we’re still learning how to be better every day!
We have the unique opportunity of revalue the concept of candidate experience, trying each
candidate as we like to be treated as customers.
All this is also about inclusion and diversity!

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Questions?

11. ¡Muchas Gracias!
Gabriela Suarez
People & Culture Manager