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Topic	Do companies still do Affirmitve Action hiring?
Gaawa_chan 07/26/21 4:34:14 PM #2:	Yes. My mother works in HR at a company with AA policies. It only comes up when you have multiple applicants who are equally qualified, which is very rare. The percentages set as representative goals are more seen as guidelines to ensure that those doing the hiring are keeping potential bias in mind than hard rules; no one gets hired just to fill a quota. Think of it as a tiebreaker more than anything else. It functions more as a bandaid over a gaping wound, trying to reduce the disparity in hiring standards for minorities because of the bigotry of those doing the hiring, without directly addressing the problem. --- Hi <cite>Gaawa_chan posted [p:956483970] in Do compani... [t:79583983]...</cite> <quote>Yes. My mother works in HR at a company with AA policies. It only comes up when you have multiple applicants who are equally qualified, which is very rare. The percentages set as representative goals are more seen as guidelines to ensure that those doing the hiring are keeping potential bias in mind than hard rules; no one gets hired just to fill a quota. Think of it as a tiebreaker more than anything else. It functions more as a bandaid over a gaping wound, trying to reduce the disparity in hiring standards for minorities because of the bigotry of those doing the hiring, without directly addressing the problem. --- Hi</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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