Join Us for the Fall 2024 GLEAN Learning Event!
Nika Kabiri will present an informative webinar, titled Making Smarter Decisions in Talent Assessment: Identifying and Avoiding Common Pitfalls on December 9th, 2024 from 1:00-2:00PM ET. This presentation is suitable for academics, practitioners, and students and is open to all.
Session Description:
In the fast-paced world of talent assessment, even seasoned professionals can fall prey to decision-making pitfalls that compromise the fairness, effectiveness, and outcomes of hiring and development processes. This engaging session will delve into the most common challenges—including cognitive biases, process errors, and emotional or social influences—and their real-world impacts on candidate selection and employee growth.
Through practical examples and actionable strategies, you’ll learn how to recognize and mitigate these pitfalls, ensuring more consistent, data-driven, and equitable decision-making. Whether you’re an IO psychologist, HR practitioner, academic, or student, this talk will equip you with tools to elevate your talent assessment practices and drive better organizational outcomes.
About Nika Kabiri:
Nika Kabiri has spent 20+ years studying how people make decisions in a variety of contexts. Her consultancy, Kabiri Consulting, works with organizations and businesses of all sizes, across all industry categories, helping them drive strategic growth through confident data-informed decisions. She is also Founder and Principal at Spark Insights, a consumer research company that helps businessess deeply understand consumer decision-making. Dr. Kabiri is a former faculty member at the University of Washington, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Decision Science. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington, where her academic focus was on choice theory and institutional analysis. She also has a JD from the University of Texas. She’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Fast Company, and more.