Biases That Affect Hiring & Firing

Evidence-based research has shown us several biases exist within modern hiring and firing. Here are a few of them.

Chuma S. Okoro
2 min readFeb 21

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Many biases about people exist in organizations that have a heavy impact on the hiring and firing process. Three very impactful ones are implicit personality theory, confirmation bias, and similarity bias. Implicit personality bias has to do with how our brains link observed behavior to unobserved behavior and assume both exist. This can be seen when energetic people are considered…

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Chuma S. Okoro

Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg, MBA candidate @ Zicklin School of Business. ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN!