I don’t think “pink” and “hot pink” should count individually here.

Or if they do, you missed the opportunity to just list all colors + “hot” infront of them lol.

Still a passing grade regardless, so you get a hot gold star 🌟

Everyone should agree with them but not everyone does.

What is it you think the “not agreeing” people want?

Yep… the “best” candidate is not the same as being the most “talented.” Maybe they’re a bad fit because they’re an asshole, or because they’d want a team structure that’s incompatible with the current one.

It all adds to the complexity and subjectivity recruitment inheritly has.

Look, everyone agrees the best candidate should be the one that’s hired.

Unfortunately, there’s no objective truth in how to rank candidates - minus anything obvious. Humans make the choices and humans are prone to bias. Consciously or not, people are going to favor candidates that meet the expected stereotypes for said positions.

There are plenty of studies out there documenting it. For example, resume response rates can vary drastically based solely on the name of the applicant. (The same resume sent to various companies with changes to the applicant’s name. Masculine names, feminine names, “white” names, “black” names, etc).

It does bother me if people are hired because of the colour of their skin or because of their gender and not because they were the best candidate.

Statements like these are easy to cling onto and rally a false narrative. They’re something ““everyone”” should agree on at a first glance. They miss the underlying issues and the driving force behind various movements.