Anastasiia Kuzmenko

Opinion

January 26, 2024

Tech recruiters, it is time to check your hiring bias

Would you hire a new employee who had pink hair or tattoos? What about one with typos in his CV? Here's why you might be wrong

Someone with errors in their CV, a weird email address, or who cites pole dancing as a hobby has less of a chance of landing a job in tech. 

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Anastasiia Kuzmenko

Anastasiia is head of talent acquisition at Flyer One Ventures.

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