{"id":8382,"date":"2022-02-25T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2023-10-03T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:02:47","slug":"are-you-falling-into-the-bias-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/are-you-falling-into-the-bias-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Hub | Are you falling into the bias trap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once bitten twice shy. The psychology of failure can be hard to overcome when hiring new people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;When a good decision leads to a bad outcome, the experience of regret can bias subsequent choices: people are less likely to select the regret-producing alternative a second time, even when it is still objectively the best alternative (non-adaptive choice switching)&#8221; &#8211; Van Dijk &amp; Zeelenberg, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Often candidates don&#8217;t even get a look in because of a past experience;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The last person that worked at that company didn&#8217;t work out.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The last person that lived in that suburb found the commute too far.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The last person with that background didn&#8217;t take to the role quickly enough.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bad experiences continue to cloud hiring decisions, and it&#8217;s a normal human reaction to avoid potential failure. But, on the flip side, it also means that good fits are missed before they&#8217;ve even had an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The moral of the story is that every individual is different. It&#8217;s a case-by-case situation, and keeping an open, objective mind is sometimes the hardest thing to do in recruitment. But, for me, it&#8217;s also a sign of a good recruiter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">SEEKING INDUSTRY-LEADING TALENT?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leverage Pulse Recruitment&#8217;s expertise in <span style=\"color: #2c9a63;\"><a style=\"color: #2c9a63;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IT, sales, and marketing<\/a><\/span> to secure elite professionals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the wider Asia-Pacific and United States regions. Experience the advantage by<span style=\"color: #2c9a63;\"> <a style=\"color: #2c9a63;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connecting with us<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once bitten twice shy. The psychology of failure can be hard to overcome when hiring new people. &#8220;When a good decision leads to a bad outcome, the experience of regret can bias subsequent choices: people are less likely to select the regret-producing alternative a second time, even when it is still objectively the best alternative&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employers-hub","tag-technology-sales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13659,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/13659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pulserecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}