This product could help build a more equitable workplace (Ep. 575)
Today’s guest is Ilit Raz, founder and CEO of Joonko, which aims to build a more equitable workplace by automating the recruitment of diverse talent from underrepresented communities.
Eira May
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Today’s guest is Ilit Raz, founder and CEO of Joonko, which aims to build a more equitable workplace by automating the recruitment of diverse talent from underrepresented communities.
Episode notes:
Joonko is an automated diversity recruiting layer named for Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. You can learn about their talent pool, keep up with their blog, or check out their open positions.
ICYMI, read our blog post about how the recent tech layoffs have had a disproportionate impact on women, people of color, and immigrants.
Connect with Ilit on LinkedIn.
This week’s Lifeboat badge is awarded to pppery for their answer to Why use positional-only parameters in Python 3.8+?.
Tags: diversity, equity, inclusion, recruiting, the stack overflow podcast
4 Comments
Thank you thank you thank you! You are making this world a great place and couldn’t be more excited! Love to see the landscape and soul of IT changing such as it’s been a long time coming.
We should hire for competence alone. That has been and always will be the only fair system. If the final population is overrepresented by any particular group then those are the people who decided to make those particular skills a priority in their personal development. It’s not a problem and means nothing more than that.
If you really want to improve fairness, do blind interviews with voice masking so you don’t know anything about the individual other than their ability to display their skill set, problem solved.
The pareto distribution is a real thing and we are going to break the world trying to bend it, and we will ultimately fail anyway, or at least, I’d bet on it. We need software that solves real problems, not a self-congratulatory slog that will ultimately change nothing and push us right into the very totalitarianism we claim to resist.
Well said
💯👍🏼