Richard
1. Yes - separate form
2. Yes - centralized team. Team also notify managers of disabled
candidates to ensure interview guarantee system. Monitoring data is
collected centrally and reported by Recruitment Team to Equality and
Diversity Cttee.
Sarah
(Coventry)
Richard Burrow wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We are currently re-designing our application form for staff.
> Currently, the section for equal opps monitoring is not separable from
> the rest of the form, but I would like to make it a tear-off section in
> the new form. This proposal has raised some difficulties with our
> operational HR staff, because of the way our recruitment process
> operates. For academic and senior support staff positions, the
> applications are returned to HR, so we could detach the EO monitoring
> section, but for all other positions, inc research, the applications go
> direct to the School/section concerned - with no guarantee that they
> will detach the monitoring section before it reaches the recruiting
> manager, nor any obviously easy way of matching the EO data with the
> outcome of the selection process.
>
> So, a couple of questions for you:
>
> 1 - Do you have a tear-off, or separate, EO monitoring section with your
> application form?
>
> 2 - Do you operate a central recruitment function, through which all
> applications are routed?
>
> 3 - If the answer to 1 is 'yes', and 'no' to 2, how do you solve the
> problem? Do you have a IT recruitment system that allows devolved input
> by recruiting departments?
>
> I shall be happy to post a summary of responses, and to engage in any
> dialogue with interested parties!
>
> Richard Burrow
> Assistant Director of Human Resources
> University of Newcastle upon Tyne
> Tel: 0191 222 6306
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Sarah Lewis
Equal Opportunities Adviser
Tel: 024 7688 7148
Fax: 024 7688 8131
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