Conference Session

Technical Session 2 - Paper 5: Need for Change: How Interview Preparation and the Hiring Process in Computing Can Be Made More Equitable

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University; Monique S Ross, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

technical interviews. If you put all those into one class, I think that could be super [inaudible 00:21:06] and students are required to take it. Because if you have these meetings and people don’t have time or people have jobs, it’s hard to do on top of classes, so if you had your own three, four credit class, that would be super beneficial definitely.Other students mentioned how they felt uncomfortable speaking, or how they noticed others in thedepartment struggled with communication. As such, they felt gaining practice could help to betterprepare, as emphasized by Michael (an Asian, Black, and Hispanic male): I think providing students with some sort of soft skills interviewing course or something