If applications have diversity goals, and ask for your demographic, how can they claim that your response won’t subject you to adverse treatment/ affect your application? Aren’t your demographics taken into direct consideration when targeting those diversity goals, either for better or worse?

Question

If applications have diversity goals, and ask for your demographic, how can they claim that your response won’t subject you to adverse treatment/ affect your application? Aren’t your demographics taken into direct consideration when targeting those diversity goals, either for better or worse?

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Answer 1

If hiring has diversity goals, then it can negatively affect you. This would be something HR does when presenting resumes to the hiring manager when there’s an abundance of applications. They may select a few strong candidates from the entire pool then a candidate or 2 from the diverse pile.
It could also mean recruiters focus their efforts on reaching out to diverse groups to find candidates, but this is more rare.

After this stage, the diversity effort usually stops and the hiring manager(s) selects the best fit from the pool of candidates HR passed over to them.