Originally Posted by
Uplinker
According to census data; 82% of the UK population are white, so the vast majority of applicants in the UK will be white: Out of 10 applicants, 8.2 will be white and 1.8 will be BAME.
Whole I'll be happy to say it's gone waaaaay too far the reason for BAME/female representation in adverts that have run in the past is that the application rate (let alone the actual serving population) way way under-represents the population in both BAME and female personnel - iirc both are at about an eighth to a quarter of the quantity you would expect based on the population at large, hence the drive to make the job seem like it is more representative than it is. What that isn't is an excuse to select anything other than the best person for the job once applications are in. However, plenty of experiments have found that truly "blind" selection systems do way better at this than those that claim to be - that's probably part of the solution but I'm not sure how you'd run OASC blind in the practical arena. Interviews and group exercises on the other hand could easily be done in such a way.