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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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

Please know in any decent company, your data isn’t all distributed to the hiring authority. So when you enter that you are 35, white, male with a bachelor’s born in the U.S, the only information the hiring team gets is bachelor’s degree. Then they get your documents that you upload that are relevant, like resumes/CV, cover letter, proof of degree, etc. The other information is stored so that non-connected later reports can be run on the population of hired people. This way, the company has hiring statistics, but they aren’t factored in immediate hiring considerations.