I want to come back to this for a sec. I appreciate the BIPOC voices politely smacking Dave around for this. But there& #39;s something more here we need to talk about, something I call the 30 second rule. https://twitter.com/daveixd/status/1266017869617381378">https://twitter.com/daveixd/s...
You get a bunch of submissions for a job opening. You have to sift through resumes, portfolios, collateral to figure out which 5 you want to phone screen. You& #39;re also slammed by all your other work. So you lean on patterns to decide who is in and who is out.
Some of them you know by experience -- never hire someone who worked at (terrible company). Others, though, you get ingrained in you. Too short a stay at a job. Spelling and grammar. Other things. You think they& #39;re effective patterns to find good candidates.

They& #39;re not.
Because what you& #39;re actually doing is following the patterns _you_ learned with zero evidence. And... it& #39;s crossing against your own biases, your own ingrained sense of what you believe true.

So bigotry and racism and sexism mix in, and you may not even notice.
It& #39;s been hard for me to undo a lot of this, but I& #39;m trying. The more I talk to BIPOC folk about their experiences in this industry, the more it& #39;s told me there& #39;s a lot of bias that& #39;s keeping them out of growth patterns that are easy for men, esp white men, to access.
I haven& #39;t had to hire for a while (yay lean teams) but when I get back to it again I& #39;m not going to spend 30 secs -- or less -- on winnowing. I& #39;m going to consider them individually. And I& #39;ll put it on my damn calendar so no one can try to schedule over that time.
Because that& #39;s what I& #39;d expect from other hiring managers if it were me. A real, clear, sober reckoning of what you can bring to the gig.

Also, fuck white supremacy in design.

/rant
(PS: I& #39;ve also discovered how I feel about modern design hiring and team construction means I& #39;m pretty unhireable as a design manager. C& #39;est que c& #39;est.)
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