How Unfamiliarity Bias Affects Who Gets Promoted

Bobby Powers
The Startup
Published in
7 min readApr 9, 2019

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Have you ever been passed over for an internal promotion, only to have your company opt for an external candidate with less relevant experience?

Unfortunately, this happens all the time.

This week alone, three of my friends said they’ve either personally faced this situation or seen a spouse go through it.

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Bobby Powers
The Startup

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