Rob
I have considered this at ARU, but felt we couldn't go ahead with it as for academic posts we would expect applicants to demonstrate research and scholarly activity (part of which would include publications) and as this would have names on it anyway we decided not to proceed.
The NHS do this for all jobs already and from my experience it worked well, initially some managers found it difficult not seeing the candidates' names but they got used to this quite quickly.
Regards,
Andrea
Andrea Lechner
HR Manager (Development & Diversity)
HR Services
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From: HEEON equal opportunities list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rob Kemp
Sent: 07 March 2013 12:18
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Subject: Anonymous short-listing is staff recruitment
At Lancaster, as part of our Athena SWAN action plans, we are considering removing job applicants' names from the information seen by staff recruitment panels when short-listing applications via our on-line recruitment system.
This we see as being a small but important step along the road towards eliminating unconcious bias in staff recruitment for not only gender, but all protected characteristics. (Other challenges remain e.g. names on CVs)
Please can you let me know if you remove names from job applications?
How does this work, and how effective it has been?
Many thanks
Rob Kemp
01524 510624
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