GLG Social Impact Report Provides Roadmap for Organizations to Mitigate Bias in Hiring

The second installment in GLG’s award-winning “Insights with Impact” series, the report convened leading experts to outline strategies for organizations to reduce bias throughout their hiring processes

New York, New York; February 13, 2023 – GLG, the world’s insight network, today released its second “Insights with Impact” report, which provides a roadmap for organizations to mitigate unconscious racial bias in hiring. Spearheaded by GLG Social Impact, the report convened GLG Network Members (experts) with decades of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion and talent acquisition to collaboratively outline strategies that organizations can implement immediately to reduce bias throughout their hiring processes.

The resulting roadmap details tactics to drive change, including establishing standardized and data-centric hiring processes, focusing exclusively on skills and competencies when evaluating candidates, and enforcing both organizational and individual accountability for DE&I goals.

GLG is the world’s insight network, bringing decision makers the insight it takes to get ahead. GLG’s network of experts is the world’s largest source of first-hand expertise, with thousands of new Network Members recruited every week. GLG Social Impact is the company’s award-winning initiative that supports nonprofits, foundations, and impact funds to help solve the world’s most urgent challenges. Every year, GLG Social Impact provides direct financial support and in-kind contributions to hundreds of organizations that cumulatively impact tens of millions of people around the world.

“Unconscious bias is a pervasive – and often misunderstood – issue with far-reaching consequences,” said GLG VP and Head of Social Impact Jen Field. “We’re eager to share the concrete, actionable strategies our Network Members collaborated on to help organizations operate more equitably.”

For this project, GLG Social Impact convened nine leading experts for a series of moderated discussions on the dynamics of unconscious bias in hiring, and then collaborated with Network Members to write the report based on the insights shared by the panelists. The report is the second installment in GLG’s “Insights with Impact” series, which brings the power of expert insight to urgent social challenges. The first report, which focused on implicit racial bias in U.S. healthcare, won recognition in Fast Company’s 2022 “World Changing Ideas Awards” for its ingenuity, scalability, and potential for impact.

“Countless organizations are genuinely interested in rooting out discrimination, but require greater insight to understand and solve for unconscious bias,” said GLG Chief Diversity Officer Desirée Dancy. “This report will expand their toolset – and help advance the crucial, ongoing work of inclusion.”

Access the full “Insights with Impact” report here.

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