The Top 5 Hiring Biases That Cloud Your Judgment

According to the Small Business Administration—

20% of small businesses fail each year.

Why?

The founders are hiring based on biases.

Here are the top 5 hiring biases that cloud your judgment

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— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

1. Confirmation Bias

60% of interviewers will decide about a candidate within the first 15 minutes.

They spend the rest of the interview justifying or confirming their bias.

We tend to assume rather than lead with curiosity.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

If someone is quiet, we assume they're unconfident.

If their camera isn't on, we assume something's wrong.

If they don't have makeup on, we think they're lazy.

Be curious and ask more questions.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

2. Expectation anchors

Our brains use one piece of info about a candidate to make a decision.

It's usually based on past hires.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

Ex: Hiring a new marketing manager.

You're more likely to look for similiar qualities that your last manager had.

If they're not like that, we tend to think they're not a good fit.

So we've become biased by our past experiences.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

3. Halo effect

We focus heavily on one good thing about a person and ignore the rest.

They might have a fancy degree—

Or experience with a major competitor.

These can overshadow the pitfalls.

And cause you to make a bad hire.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

4. Similarity bias

We naturally want to be with people like us.

But we end up with homogenous teams.

Same people, similar traits.

No diversity of thinking.

We need different perspectives to grow.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

5. Affinity Bias

We have a natural inclination towards somebody if we have something in common.

Could be:

- Same college
- Same name
- Same hometown

Those qualities have no effect on performance.

It's one of the biggest mistakes companies make.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

Every time I've made the right hire—

I've felt incredibly uncomfortable.

They didn't think or act like me.

And that's a good thing.

Don't follow your gut.

Because if you do, you'll end up with a team of you's.

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023

TLDR: 5 Hiring biases that'll put you out of business

1. Confirmation bias
2. Expectation anchors
3. Halo effect
4. Similarity bias
5. Affinity bias

— Leila Hormozi (@LeilaHormozi) March 3, 2023