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Recruitment Industry Engagement Initiative Phase 2
Race and Recruitment - Exposing the Barriers
Background
Following on from Race for Opportunity’s (RfO) report, RfO Race to Progress: Breaking Down Barriers, published in June 2011, RfO has launched Phase 2 of its Recruitment Industry Engagement Initiative (RIEI) designed to take forward recommendation three from the report. Recommendation three focused on improving employers’ and recruitment agencies’ processes around recruiting diverse candidates. The first RIEI Phase 2 Steering Committee meeting agreed to investigate any trends around barriers faced by ethnic minority candidates during the recruitment process, with a view to producing guides for employers, recruitment industry representatives and candidates to combat those barriers. A survey addressing both recruitment agency-based recruitment and direct recruitment issues was sent to RfO members and a cross section of recruitment agencies for dissemination to their employees and candidate databases respectively.
As a result of the survey, Race for Opportunity, working in collaboration with Diversity Works for London, has published the document featured below. This research piece exposes the barriers faced by BAME candidates in the recruitment process and explores the need for change in four key areas of the experience.
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Recruitment Industry Engagement Initiative Phase 1
The first phase consisted of a number of documents designed to develop a framework that provides checks and balances in the recruitment process for employers and recruitment agencies.
These documents are available for download at: Race for Opportunity Recruitment Toolkit
Professor Angela Dale, AcSS, OBE, Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester had this to say about the Race and Recruitment research and the toolkits launched in conjunction with the report:
“The messages for recruitment agencies, highlighted by this research, identify important, but practical, ways in which the experience of applicants - whatever their ethnicity - can be greatly improved. In particular, the job seekers toolkit is a brilliant way of providing clear, simple but very effective advice on all stages of finding a job. The practical tips, for example on increasing your visibility and profile by building a network of contacts, on the importance of really reading job adverts carefully and projecting yourself and your qualities through your application and interview, provides the kind of guidance that we can all benefit from. The toolkit is an essential guide to getting the job you want!”
