Blind Recruitment with Ella McCann Tomlin: Why anonymising CVs does not increase candidate diversity (Part 1)

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Is blind recruitment effective when increasing the diversity of your talent pool? This is part 1 of “Blind Recruitment”. In this episode, Charlotte talks to DE&I consultant and founder of Ardent, Ella McCann-Tomlin about what blind recruitment is, the positive and negative impact blind recruitment can have on the hiring process, and why blind recruitment sometimes just delays discrimination.
Charlotte Melkert, https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-melkert-07987b81/
Ella McCann-Tomlin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-mccann-tomlin-044aa053/

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*’Blind recruitment’ commonly refers to the practice of anonymising CVs. We acknowledge that using the descriptor ‘blind’ in this way has ableist connotations, and we address the issue of the widespread use of the term upfront in our conversation.