Reducing Bias in Hiring: Best Practices and One School's Experience

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT

Location: Daniel Burnham

In the spring of 2021, Delaware Valley Friends School formed a committee to review the school's hiring process through the lens of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. This process led the school to adopt a new hiring software platform called Applied that anonymizes applications, leverages a skills-based methodology, and builds transparency and analytics into every step of the hiring process. Learn about the current research on bias in hiring, see how the software implements that research to minimize bias, and hear about the school's experience reducing bias in its hiring practices, including early successes and challenges.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn strategies and best practices for reducing bias in the hiring process based on current research and some of the benefits and challenges of implementing these practices in an independent school.

Primary Presenter(s)

Justin Wheeler

Chief Financial Officer
School Edge Solutions
Paoli, Pennsylvania

Co-Presenter(s)

Ryan Harrison

Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Delaware Valley Friends School
PW

Patrick White

Head of Growth Projects
Applied