Brilliant Hire x FallX: Designing a hiring process with diversity in mind

Diversifying the technology sector is absolutely vital to the success of its innovations. While tech jobs continue to grow at <a href="https://www.comptia.org/advocacy/news/comptia-advocacy-news/2019/09/06/us-tech-industry-employment-stands-out-in-disappointing-august-jobs-report-comptia-analysis-finds" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">stand-out rates in the national labor market</a>, its improvements in diverse hiring have been <a href="https://www.benefitspro.com/2018/02/28/diversity-improving-but-still-lagging-in-tech-indu/?slreturn=20191013225028" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">widely lackluster</a>. With <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">recent studies</a> reporting a 4:1 male-to-female ratio working in STEM jobs globally and a nearly 50/50 split between white and minority employees at the Big 5 tech companies, the time to bolster efforts to increase diversity in tech is now. (Of course, this is not limited to the tech industry, as disparaging diversity gaps are also prevalent in many other sectors: To name a few, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/nov/05/newsroom-diversity-media-race-journalism" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Media</a>, <a href="https://www.wealthmanagement.com/careers/six-charts-illustrate-financial-advice-industrys-lack-diversity" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">finance</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/02/latest-federal-diversity-report-from-opm-shows-little-or-no-progress-and-some-regression/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">government</a>.) <a href="https://medium.com/brillianthire/brilliant-hire-x-fallx-designing-a-hiring-process-with-diversity-in-mind-b9257372e8d7">Read More</a>