Diversity and inclusion are central to modern hiring strategy, but the traditional unstructured interview is often a breeding ground for unconscious bias, even among well-intentioned interviewers.
Live conversations drift. An interviewer might connect easily with one candidate over a shared hobby and give them an easier ride, while grilling another candidate with entirely different, harder questions. Decisions end up based on impressions rather than consistent evidence.
When every candidate answers identical questions, in the same order, with the same amount of preparation time, there's no conversational drift to account for. Recorded responses can also be reviewed independently by multiple stakeholders using a shared rubric.
A panel scoring the same video against the same criteria drastically reduces the influence of any single person's unconscious bias on the final decision.
Building a genuinely fair hiring process starts with removing the variability that unstructured interviews introduce in the first place.