{"id":484,"date":"2024-11-19T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/?p=484"},"modified":"2024-11-25T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:53:15","slug":"halo-horns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/recruitment-practices\/halo-horns\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo Horns and First Impressions at Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Halo Horns<\/strong>...<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">and first impressions at interview.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did you know that when we meet a new person, we formulate an opinion on them in the first 30 seconds?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So ultimately, we are making a judgement on them (and their ability to do the job) on what they are wearing or how they look. In recruitment circles we call this \"Halo Horns\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's very dangerous and also allows for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/about\/who\/equity-diversity-inclusion\/staff\/equitable-decision-making\/unconscious-bias\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/about\/who\/equity-diversity-inclusion\/staff\/equitable-decision-making\/unconscious-bias\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">unconscious bias<\/a> to creep into the interview or screening. It also means we are judging someone superficially on their hair, their tie, shoes or even ethnicity!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why we might want to move to blind CVs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For example some people have halo horns with a surname (make a judgment). Are your hiring managers prone to making quick judgments, which bear no relation to the person's abilities or experience. It's why we might want to move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.developmentaid.org\/news-stream\/post\/155251\/the-blind-cv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blind CVs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you think of a time you've witnessed Halo Horns at interview where a candidate was pre-judged by a Hiring Manager and its hard to get past this \"bias\" later in the interview?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Halo Horns on one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/courses\/ta-fundamentals-training\/\">TA Fundamentals Training courses<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/courses\/recruitment-skills-for-hiring-managers\/\">Hiring Manager Recruitment Skills programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halo Horns - Did you know that when we meet a new person, we formulate an opinion on them in the first 30 seconds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recruitment-practices","category-news-insights","tag-recruitment-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillconsultinghrs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}