[Secret Agent Man]

and when they still hire mostly white men because they have the largest experience base on their resumes, by and large?

what then?

start scrubbing the resumes of experience from the better qualified?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Remove all distinguishing characteristics. Pull the hires’ names out of a hat.

It’s would be all anonymous—a kind of Glory Hole Hiring.

But, that’s wouldn’t be good enough, because detail-blind hiring would only result in race-proportional representation ... they want to invert the normal order of things, regardless of merit. Racial spoils.

[FatherofFive]

start scrubbing the resumes of experience from the better qualified?

Years ago, before PCs in the office, I had a consulting project to try to reduce turnover in the customer service department for a utility in Georgia. I developed a 'weighted application blank. We got it down to two variables - you would be hired if you spent 2 or more years at your previous job, and you lived in the same residence for more than 2 years. While it did reduce turnover, it also excluded about 75% of Black applicants. We had to scrap it.

Profiling works.

[PGR88]

Agreed. When the resume contains references to degrees in Womyn’s Studies or internships at the Southern Poverty Law Center, you’ll have all you will need to know.

[A_perfect_lady]

The very last line of the article says, “It’s sort of like hiring in the dark, you’re hiring essentially based on merit and that’s not really helpful to diversity.”

Oooops... I bet he didn't mean to admit that.