Rarely is the best person ever hired, HR and Recruiters rarely hire the most qualified, which stands to reason as many HR people were never qualified to be in HR in first place. They end up hiring a friend or they hire someone who they think they can teach and mold which is always a recipe for failure.
If one really wants to have diverse teams then perhaps it might be a sound practice for the department responsible for hiring to be diverse themselves and that department HR is without question the least diverse profession in the workplace.
Rarely is the best person ever hired, HR and Recruiters rarely hire the most qualified, which stands to reason as many HR people were never qualified to be in HR in first place. They end up hiring a friend or they hire someone who they think they can teach and mold which is always a recipe for failure.
If one really wants to have diverse teams then perhaps it might be a sound practice for the department responsible for hiring to be diverse themselves and that department HR is without question the least diverse profession in the workplace.