Anonymous curriculum vitae's - Find a freedom of information request

Request
  1. Does your council use the principle of anonymous curriculum vitae's (CV's) in hiring candidates to work at the council? This is where the hiring manager does not receive the name of the candidate, merely the application to review-to remove biases.
  2. If your council does use anonymous CVs do you do any work to promote employers in your area to also take up the practice?
  3. In the area you serve what percentage of the population Black and Minority Ethnic (BME)?
  4. Among your directly employed staff what percentage of your workforce is BME?
Decision
  1. No.
  2. Not applicable.
  3. 2.49% taken from 2011 census data provided by the Office for National Statistics.
  4. 2.98%.

 

Reference number
FOI0544
Date request received
28 August 2019
Date of decision
26 September 2019