Why Aren’t We Hiring the Best People for the Job Anymore?

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We now live in a world that has bent itself out of shape embracing diversity. In a bid to overcompensate for discriminatory hiring practices we've done a complete turnaround. In many cases we’re no longer hiring the best person for the job, but the person that best suits a diversity profile.

I don’t know how many of you are aware of four questions that appear at the bottom of almost every major corporation’s job application form. They ask if you are:

1. Aboriginal
2. Part of a Visible Minority
3. Disabled
4. Female or Male

The questions are optional and of course you can refuse to answer. However, the questions are there. These diversity hiring practices are no different than “affirmative action” in the 1960s, which was meant to be a temporary measure to level the playing field. Affirmative action didn’t work and neither do diversity hires. As a nation we should be concentrating on equality hiring practices. Hire the best person for the job. If the playing field isn’t level then make the changes in the education system to give everyone access to good education and therefore to equal opportunity. Hiring an Aboriginal, visible minority, disabled person, female or any combination thereof to prove that your company embraces diversity is no more than reverse discrimination. Let’s start embracing equality instead.

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