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Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias
Post-doctoral training is a critical career stage for researchers in the life sciences, yet interviewing for a post-doctoral position is largely an unregulated process. Without regulation, interviews are susceptible to unconscious biases that may lead to discrimination against certain demographic gr...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7671148/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33791541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz027 |
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description | Post-doctoral training is a critical career stage for researchers in the life sciences, yet interviewing for a post-doctoral position is largely an unregulated process. Without regulation, interviews are susceptible to unconscious biases that may lead to discrimination against certain demographic groups (e.g., women and minorities). Using data from an online survey of post-docs, we show that interview procedures for post-doctoral positions in the life sciences are correlated with several factors (e.g., candidate demographics) in ways that may bias the outcome of interviews. We discuss key components of interviews and suggest that conducting standardized, well-planned interviews that are less susceptible to unconscious biases may help increase the retention of women and under-represented minorities in the life sciences. |
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spelling | pubmed-76711482021-03-30 Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias Burnett, N P Combes, S A Integr Org Biol Commentary Post-doctoral training is a critical career stage for researchers in the life sciences, yet interviewing for a post-doctoral position is largely an unregulated process. Without regulation, interviews are susceptible to unconscious biases that may lead to discrimination against certain demographic groups (e.g., women and minorities). Using data from an online survey of post-docs, we show that interview procedures for post-doctoral positions in the life sciences are correlated with several factors (e.g., candidate demographics) in ways that may bias the outcome of interviews. We discuss key components of interviews and suggest that conducting standardized, well-planned interviews that are less susceptible to unconscious biases may help increase the retention of women and under-represented minorities in the life sciences. Oxford University Press 2019-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7671148/ /pubmed/33791541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz027 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Burnett, N P Combes, S A Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias |
title | Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias |
title_full | Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias |
title_fullStr | Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias |
title_full_unstemmed | Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias |
title_short | Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias |
title_sort | post-doc interviews in the life sciences: an often-overlooked process that is susceptible to bias |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7671148/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33791541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz027 |
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