Equality-Oriented Selection Processes
Appointment and recruitment procedures are key instruments of quality assurance and therefore of long-term importance for university development and the university’s reputation. Professional, transparent procedures markedly enhance the quality of personnel selection processes and contribute substantially to ensuring equal opportunities. In turn, an orientation towards equality positively influences the quality of the processes. It ensures that, within the framework of selecting the best candidates, a suitable person can be chosen from the widest and most heterogeneous possible pool, and that the diverse potential of all applicants has a fair chance to become visible.
Recognising, Examining, and Minimising Bias in Selection Processes
Unconscious Bias Training of the University of Göttingen
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Unconscious Bias can shape our perceptions and distort decision-making in selection processes. The Unconscious Bias Training of the University of Göttingen is designed to help members of appointment and selection committees recognise these effects and ensure that recruitment procedures are conducted in a fair and transparent manner. Developed within the framework of the Professorinnenprogramm III (Female Professors Programme III), this training tool supports the implementation of equality-oriented appointment procedures and promotes quality-assured selection processes across the university.
The project “Equality-Oriented Selection Processes” represents a strategic initiative to improve appointment and recruitment procedures at the University of Göttingen from an equality perspective. In the long term, it seeks to increase the proportion of women at all qualification levels within academic careers, with a particular focus on professorial positions.