Courtesy: The Daily Telegraph: Many of the Britain’s biggest companies have backed a new pact designed by ministers to make the process of getting a job fairer.
A key requirement of the deal to recruit “openly and fairly” will see companies increasingly ask for name-free CVs or application forms to stamp out any discrimination during the recruitment process.
Equality campaigners have long argued that recruiters can – inadvertently – discriminate against candidates with foreign-sounding names or against women, when sifting through applications for roles.
There is also concern that employers judge a candidate based on what school they went to, leading to proposals to remove the names of educational institutions from CVs.