But you're not recruiting them for their future potential (not directly), so surely you should apply a level playing field. Once you get on the line - and indeed during training - there doesn't seem to be a culture of bench-marking you against your previous experience; there's a bar, you pass (or exceed) or you don't. Why should it be different at the recruiting stage? If HR wish to apply demographics, that's their perogative, not the sim assessors.