Best Man For The Job? How Bias Affects Hiring

We all like to believe that our qualif icat ions determine whether we are invited for job interviews and that our performance dictates whether our employers think well of us. Obviously, employers are better of f if they hire the most qualif ied applicants. And of course, the goals of business and government goals are furthered when managers rate employees according to how well they perform their jobs. Recent research strongly suggests, however, that implicit bias af fects both whether people are invited to interview for jobs, regardless of their qualif icat ions, as well as how their performance is assessed.