Originally Posted by
pba_target
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.
OK, but the place to do that is not in the interview room at the workplace. It is about 10 years before that, when teenagers need to be thinking about what they want to do in life. And be assisted in making those life decisions.
At the recruitment level, employers should be concentrating on the best person(s) for the job from those who applied and passed the initial screening.