Major brands pledge 'no-name' CVs in bid to end hiring discrimination

Major brands pledge 'no-name' CVs in bid to end hiring discrimination

Hoping to tackle CV prejudice, major employers have agreed to hide candidate names on their application processes.

UK employers are more likely to offer interviews to candidates with ‘white-sounding names’, according to The Financial Times (FT). Government research in 2009 found those with non-white names were less probable to be selected, despite their applications being identical.

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