1. IMPLICIT BIAS & WELCOMING BEHAVIOR

2. HIRING COMMITTEES’ GOAL
HIRE THE BEST: FOR SCC AND OUR STUDENTS
REPRESENT THE COLLEGE WELL
BE EQUITABLE
BE WELCOMING

4. Welcoming Behavior: Dialogue
Dialogue can be achieved by allowing the candidate to ask questions.
Allowing questions is welcoming behavior.
Candidates are naturally curious and, if they have done their homework about SCC, they have both a need and a desire to know.

5. BE WELCOMING! Greeting Smile Open Body Language
Pay attention to the applicant
Be consistent: in note-taking and demonstrated interest in applicant
Be Equity-minded

6. BEFORE YOU SCREEN, BEFORE YOU INTERVIEW…

8. The Implicit Bias Pyramid
“WE ALL HAVE BIASES!”
Decisions & Actions ”Inequitable”
Understanding & Knowledge ”Skewed, Inaccurate, Biased”
Beliefs & Assumptions
”Thoughts held as truths”
Stereotypes & Attitudes “Characteristics subjectively attributed broadly”

9. WE ALL HAVE IMPLICIT BIAS
Buried in our subconscious
Created from years of personal experiences and exposure to information from the media, family, friends, and other sources

10. THE IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST (IAT)
There are different IATs. (i.e., race, gender, sexual orientation). Each IAT is:
FREE & ANONYMOUS
Administered by Project Implicit

12. Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.

13. Take the Implicit Bias Test (IAT) Click here for Project Implicit (the website)